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The Israel Premier Tech Cycling team has been excluded from a race to come in Italy due to concerns about potentially disturbing pro-Palestine demonstrations.
The organizers of the Giro Dell’emilia, scheduled for October 4, made the decision after the demonstrators have repeatedly disrupted the recent Spanish Vuelta in the presence of the Premier Tech Israel. There, seven of the last 11 days of Vuelta running have been interrupted or interrupted while the Spanish government estimated that more than 100,000 people were in the rue de Madrid during the last stage this month.
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A general view of Pierre-André Cote du Canada, Marco Frigo d’Italie, Jan Hirt of the Czech Republic, Nadav Raisberg of Israel, Jake Stewart from Great Britain, Ethan Vernon from Great Britain, Matthew Riccitello from United States-White Young Rider Jersey and Team Israel-Premier Tech Celebrate during the Voulta. (Dario Belingheri / Getty Images)
The demonstrators said that their actions aimed to denounce the military campaign of Israel in Gaza, after the deadly attack of Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023.
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A pro-Palestinian demonstrator shows the police that his concern for Gaza after the demonstrators invaded the Vuelta race circuit in the center of Madrid during a demonstration against the participation of the Israel technical team on September 14, 2025 in Madrid, Spain. La Vuelta, a three-week road cycling race in Spain, stimulates the security of its last two stages in the Madrid region, after several previous stages were disrupted by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. (Pablo Blazquez Dominguez / Getty Images)
A local Italian politician, Roberta Li Calzi, Bologna advisor, addressed the decision to withdraw the team.
“We believe that sport is a vehicle of universal values of sharing, fair competition, solidarity between people,” said Li Calzi on Saturday. “We are satisfied to learn that this opinion is shared by the organization of the race, which officially confirmed to us that the Israeli team will not participate in the Giro Dell’emilia.
“I thank them for this sensitivity, which, I believe, is shared by a large part of our community.”
The team is co -owner by the Israeli Canadian billionaire Sylvan Adams. Her title sponsor, Premier Tech, a multinational company based in Quebec, said Thursday that she expects the team to be renamed.
Meanwhile, the UEFA Europa League, the largest European football body, would occur towards a vote to suspend Israel during the war in Gaza, according to The Associated Press.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators and the cycling team Israel Premier Tech (Getty Images)
The majority of the executive committee of 20 UEFA members should support any vote in favor of the suspension Israeli teams of the international piece, depending on the point of sale. This would prevent the Israeli national team and club teams from playing international competitions, including the World Cup next year.
