The curse continues for Cofidis. Less than two weeks after the spectacular flight of eleven bikes from the male team on the Tour de Franceit is the turn of the female formation to be victim of thieves. Several bikes were stolen from the night before the departure of Baloise Ladies Tourin Belgium. The facts occurred in Bruges, in front of the team hotel. Individuals have entered a truck Cofidis And have taken an unpertached number of bikes. Despite this incident, the team still took the start of the race prologue on Wednesday evening.
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“We work on a solution …”
“The police are continuing their investigation”said sports director Arthur Quilliec to the agency Belgian. “I can confirm that some of our bikes have been stolen, but I cannot give more details so as not to harm the investigation.” Faced with the emergency, Cofidis Activates to replace the equipment before the first online step on Thursday. “We are working on a solution for tomorrow. The flight of racing bikes becomes a real scourge. We have nevertheless done everything to avoid it”added Quilliec.
As a reminder, during Tour de Francethe male training had been robbed for € 143,000 in bikes Look In front of a Bondues hotel, on the eve of the 2nd stage. All the bikes were finally found by the police.
