Cycling team to drop the name of Israel after the pro -Palestinian Voltra protests Gaza News

The Israeli bicycle team will drop Israeli relations after multiple protests in the Vuelta A Espana race.

The Israeli technological cycling team in Israel will fall from the 2026 season, after that Repeated protests supporting the Palestinian against it In the Voelta Aspana bike race.

The move was announced in a statement on Monday, just weeks after pressure from its sponsors to change its name.

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The team, which is based in Israel, owned by the Canadian Canadian billionaire, Silvan Adams, has been criticizing a widespread criticism of the Israel war on Gaza, where more than 67,000 Palestinians were killed by Israel, and prominent experts contacted.

Adams has already said that Israel had done “miracles” in its fighting in Gaza and other places, despite the destruction of the Palestinian enclave, as famine spread.

Last month, the demonstrators disrupted several stages of Voelta in Spain because of her participation in a three -week bicycle riding event.

Amid general pressure, the team removed its full name from its shirts in the middle of the road despite the race. Later, it was necessary to abandon the final stage of Vuelta when pro -Palestinian demonstrators entered part of the session in Madrid.

After the protests against it in Spain, Israel Prime Tech was then Excluded from the Giro Dell’milia race Saturday due to concerns about public safety.

Explain his decision to return the brand, the team said on Monday that he was away from his Israeli identity from “the constant commitment to our ride, our employees and our valuable partners.”

He added: “In sport, progress often requires sacrifice, and this step is necessary to secure the future of the team.”

The statement also confirmed that Adams, its owner, was no longer speaking on behalf of the team. Instead, he will focus on his position as President of the World Jewish Congress, Israel.

Premier Tech, the Canada -based multinational company, which is participating in the team, has expressed its desire to change last month.

She said: “We are sensitive and interested in the situation on the international scene, which has evolved greatly since we arrived in the world tour in 2017.”

“We expected the team to develop into a new name except for the term Israel, and that it will adopt a new identity and a new image of the brand.”

Factor, the company that provides the team with equipment, warned that its involvement will end unless there is a “change in science.”

Israel has grown increasingly isolated internationally with the continuation of the war on Gaza, with an effort by many countries to exclude Israel from sporting and cultural events, in a similar way to exclude Russia after its war on Ukraine.