Well, during the early parts of the lockdown, there would have been no flights to be turned away from.
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Accowell, yeah, without the necessary documents, that's no surprise of course:
With no visa or residency card, the Atlanta resident was told he didn’t have the required paperwork to be permitted to travel back to Europe.
“I went to the airport on Wednesday and pretty much got turned away at the counter because I didn’t have any sort of official government document,” Garrison told VeloNews Friday
this is not due to the new travel rules, by the way. It would have been the same during the past months as well.
First rider (Garrison) having problems with making it to Europe.
https://www.velonews.com/news/garri...ght-to-europe-as-worldtour-season-approaches/
So Milano-Torino is going to be pretty flat, as are a lot of other races this year. A better year for the sprinters than they probably thought.
Yes, but they didn't even try to find a hill or 2 durning the 2nd half of the race to actually make it a solid training race for the sprinters, in this form it's really an useless race for the pure sprinters (the 5th wheel of cycling, unlike gc riders and one day racers they attract almost no new fans, flat sprint stages are imo just a necessary evil because you need sone easy/transitional stages).It's a lead up to Milan San Remo.
here will be some time lag between when virus particles get breathed in and when they will show up as a positive test result?
I really hope that the season can start there. They have to get the situation under control.
Some countries in europe have second waves. That can also happen to France, Italy and Spain. Unfortunately there will be alot of ucertainty.
Thank you—I’ve been wondering about that for a while now.PCR can detect literally a few virus particles, so it's possible someone could test positive immediately after breathing in the virus. The problem, however, is accessing the particles by a nasal swab. Before infection starts, and the virus is replicating, there will be very few particles, and they may not be detected. However, within a day or two, one should definitely test positive. Some people are even exhibiting symptoms by then.
I am not very optimistic about the virus control for this second semester. I don't know if Europe will take the same position as USA. I doubt it. In that case there won't be much cycling.
The leaders in the USA do not want to stop at any cost. So they are trying to avoid further lockdowns. As you can see now. Europe might do the lockdown again for the second wave.I really don't see how Europe taking the same position as USA would be necessary to ensure racing.
I really don't see how Europe taking the same position as USA would be necessary to ensure racing.
And now the US is seeing coastal states having a First Wave extension. We also have college and pro sports franchises that have had their teams under constant observation and, supposedly, under strict distancing seeing many positive tests. Enough to close down the sports? I think so. When American baseball professionals that stand over 50' apart on the field (except the batter and catcher) can't convince all of their players to participate it's looking like most team sports will be as challenged as reopening and elementary school.The leaders in the USA do not want to stop at any cost. So they are trying to avoid further lockdowns. As you can see now. Europe might do the lockdown again for the second wave.
And now the US is seeing coastal states having a First Wave extension. We also have college and pro sports franchises that have had their teams under constant observation and, supposedly, under strict distancing seeing many positive tests. Enough to close down the sports? I think so. When American baseball professionals that stand over 50' apart on the field (except the batter and catcher) can't convince all of their players to participate it's looking like most team sports will be as challenged as reopening and elementary school.