GPS safety tracker system will be trialed at Tour de Romandie Féminin
The UCI announced on Thursday that a new GPS safety tracker system will be employed at the Tour de Romandie Féminin, which starts next Friday. The initiative will see each rider carrying a GPS tracker "to refine the UCI's safety tracking software and establish protocols to provide real-time data to race control, medical teams and UCI Commissaires."
The governing body's push for more comprehensive rider tracking comes after Muriel Furrer died following a crash in the junior women's road race last year in Switzerland. The Tour de Romandie Féminin will be a trial run for the upcoming UCI Road World Championships in Kigali, Rwanda, "where all riders will carry the device."
