FILE PHOTO - Road Cycling World Champion Mads Pedersen arrives at Copenhagen Airport, Denmark September 30, 2019. Liselotte Sabroe/Ritzau Scanpix/via REUTERS
PARIS (Reuters) - World champion Mads Pedersen of Denmark has pulled out of the Paris-Nice race before the start of Saturday's final stage after his country asked its nationals to come home amid the coronavirus outbreak.
"As a team we always said that we would respect the authorities in this emergency," the Trek-Segafredo rider said in a team statement.
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