The international cykelkalender has been sent off course because of the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Several big race is cancelled or postponed, and this has prompted several teams to change their plans.
One of them is Team Sunweb, who, after having retired from several Italian race – which has since been cancelled – made changes on the team, from the Sunday to run the French stage race Paris-Nice.
these Changes mean that a team of Danish riders, Søren Kragh Andersen, now on the French tour.
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Søren Kragh Andersen is fit for the time being. Last weekend, he was number three in the belgian endagsløb Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, which marks the beginning of klassikersæsonen.
Sunwebs holdændring means that Casper Andersen anyway not to race Paris-Nice, which he otherwise was qualified for.
Earlier in the week announced the Quick-Step, to Kasper Asgreen be in action in Paris-Nice. He should have run the Italian endagsløb Strade Bianche on Saturday, but it has been cancelled.
In total makes six danes up in Paris-Nice. In addition Søren Kragh Andersen and Kasper Asgreen is Mads Würtz Schmidt (Israel Start-Up Nation), world champion Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo), Michael Mørkøv (Quick-Step) and Michael Valgren (NTT).
the Paris-Nice consists of eight stages including a time trial.