Elise Chabbey, this would be the year, the Strade Bianche riding with her team Bigla-Riders, but since then the Italian classic that was cancelled, changed her koersoutfit in a verpleegsterplugne. The 26-year-old Swiss is jumping in ??under-occupied to a hospital in Geneva, in order to help with the feline corona virus, to fight against them. “I hope that the situation will calm down,” she said in a statement on its team.

Chabbey completed her medical training as she is koerste for the modest Cogeas-Mettler. Since 2019 course they are for the Bigla Pro Cycling at world tour level. But by the time the pandemic broke out, she decided to again, be useful in the clinic.

“It’s tentative, I’m fine”, said Chabbey, in a statement by its team on Faceboook. “The organization of the hospital has been very good. Everyone who works here is very motivated and we want to support each other at this time. Therefore, even if the situation is stressful, we seek the courage to love, and it really helps a lot.”

“I like to think that people are now beginning to understand just how serious the situation is: everyone seems to be ready to get to work and do his best to help out. I hope that the situation will soon calm down, because I’m going to miss my Bigla-Riders-team-mates a lot. I can’t wait to get back to races after we have managed to survive.”

Chabbey, it was at the beginning of this year, third in the Omloop van het Hageland, and sixth in the Omloop het Nieuwsblad and the Tour of the city.