This decision was made two days after refusing to withdraw from the race, while the Propalestinian demonstrations are multiplying on the Vuelta course.
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No removal of the team, but a change of jersey. The Israel-Prime Tech training, whose runners are targeted by Propalestinian manifestations Recurrent on the Vuelta, announced on Saturday September 6 that she was withdrawing the mention Israel on her jerseys for the rest of the race. “In order to favor the safety of our runners and the entire peloton, given the dangerous nature of certain events during the Vuelta, Israel-Prime Tech provided its runners an outfit sporting the team's monogram for the rest of the race “wrote the training on X, which since its creation in 2017 has been aimed at redoing the image of Israel through sport.
“The name of the team remains Israel-Prime Tech, but the monogrammed outfit is now in accordance with the decisions taken previously in the field of brand image for our vehicles and relaxed clothes”she added. This announcement comes two days after the Israel-Prime Tech team has excluded to withdraw from the competition, while theThe propalestinian events are multiplying on the course. A response also supported by the Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, who congratulated the boss of the training Sylvan Adams “not to give in to hatred and intimidation. You are the pride of Israel “.
During the fifth stage on the team time trial in Figueres, the runners of the Israeli team were forced to stop in front of Propalestinian demonstrators brandishing a banner hostile to Israel. A few days later, other demonstrators disrupted the departure of the eleventh stage in Bilbao, Wednesday, September 3, before taking an action a few kilometers from the finish, of which no runner was declared winner.
