{"id":751005,"date":"2026-06-21T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T14:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T14:46:09","slug":"serious-incidents-continue-to-occur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/751005\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSerious incidents continue to occur\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nIn a statement signed by CPA Women Managing Director Alessandra Cappellotto<\/a>, the riders\u2019 association said it still believes in the SafeR project and recognised the progress made in recent years. Its call after Zigart\u2019s crash was not for the safety structure to be abandoned, but for it to be strengthened.CPA Women calls for stronger safety powers<\/p>\n

CPA Women said it had supported SafeR \u201cfrom the very beginning\u201d and had invested \u201ctime, energy and resources\u201d into the project. The union described SafeR as an essential tool for responding to the demands of modern professional cycling and the expectations of riders, teams, organisers, governing bodies, sponsors and fans.<\/p>\n

The tone then shifted from support to urgency. \u201cHowever, serious incidents continue to occur, and it is our responsibility to ask whether the current system is providing all the answers that our sport requires,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n

CPA Women said the current model should be reviewed and reinforced so SafeR has the \u201ctools, structure and authority necessary to identify risks more effectively and to prevent incidents before they happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

That authority is now the central issue. The riders\u2019 union is pushing beyond post-crash reaction and towards a safety system with more power to act before dangerous sections become part of a race.<\/p>\n

Zigart crash sharpens SafeR debateCPA Women also called on the sport not to resist reform, pointing to the UCI<\/a>, AIOCC, AIGCP and other stakeholders as part of the process. \u201cCycling must not be afraid of change,\u201d the statement continued.<\/p>\n

The union said riders remain committed to contributing constructively to that work, while stressing that safety must be treated as a shared responsibility across the sport. \u201cThe riders remain fully committed to contributing constructively to this process,\u201d CPA Women said. \u201cSafety is a shared responsibility, and continuous improvement must remain at the heart of our collective efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zigart\u2019s crash came at a race already running alongside the men\u2019s Tour de Suisse, where Tadej Pogacar has been leading the general classification. The incident quickly moved beyond the immediate medical update once CPA Women linked it to the wider question of whether cycling\u2019s safety structures have enough power to prevent serious crashes before they happen.<\/p>\n

For CPA Women, the objective is now clear: a stronger SafeR model, earlier risk identification, and a professional cycling system that does more than react once riders have already hit the ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a statement signed by CPA Women Managing Director Alessandra Cappellotto, the riders\u2019 association said it still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[347370,64,63,784,85,204764,39556,58186,23293],"class_list":["post-751005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ag-insurance-soudal-team","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-tour-de-suisse-women","tag-uci","tag-urska-zigart","tag-womens-cycling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}