Rules

Rules and Regulations

Please make sure you read and understand the Race Rules before the start of the event. 

 You will find important information and tools to know how to proceed before, during and after the event.  Download the rules and regulations:

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Fair Play & Rider Commitment

We believe that every rider should play a role in keeping other riders, supporters, staff, volunteers and spectators safe at the races. 

As a rider looking out for my safety and the safety of others:

  • Treat each other with respect. Help each other out when in need.
  • Avoid spitting or expelling any other bodily fluids near other riders, supporters, staff, volunteers or spectators.
  • Give yourself and others space! Keep a distance of  >1.5 m from others.
  • Let others know when passing. Verbalize your intention to pass if it is safe to do so. An overtaking manoeuvre should not be forced – please be polite and considerate.
  • Let faster riders pass. Don’t hinder another from overtaking.
  • Effectively utilize service stations. Touch only what you take. Minimize time spent standing at the nutrition table allowing safe access for others. Minimize touchpoints and interactions with other riders and volunteers.
  • Encourage friends and family to spectate safely in low-density zones, observe physical distancing and to stay home if they are sick or feeling unwell.

Riders participate in Epic Series races to satisfy their thirst for adventure and the team camaraderie. Of course, the race is challenging and demanding and to reduce the risk of serious accidents, all participants must acknowledge the following Rider Culture and Behaviour:

  • Consider the safety of others. Adhere to best practices to protect others.
  • Respect the host community. You are their guest during race week and please act like it.
  • Thank the volunteers. They are out here to help you achieve your dreams.
  • Pay attention to instructions from race officials.
  • Celebrate with others in a no-touch manner. Practice virtual fist-bumps.
  • No littering! Properly dispose all rubbish.
Epic Series Rules

Anti-Doping

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Email: ANTI DOPING
Visit: WADA-AMA.org
Visit: UCI.org

SPAR Swiss Epic conforms to the World Anti-Doping Code as laid out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and works with the UCI and Antidoping Switzerland to ensure the Code is properly implemented at the race and amongst cyclists in Switzerland. Stringent and comprehensive doping control can be conducted at the race by the UCI and Antidoping Switzerland. Any person who is under provisional or final sanction by an Anti-Doping Organisation with jurisdiction under the WADA Code (a “person under sanction”) is prohibited from participating or being involved in the race, whether as a rider, team manager or official or in any other capacity whatsoever. Where any such sanction has been made final for an offence committed after 31 December 2012, such prohibition shall apply for the life of the person under sanction (irrespective of the duration of the sanction imposed by the relevant Anti-Doping Organisation). As is stipulated in the race rules, the organisers reserve the right to test all participants and therefore, per the WADA Code, the onus is on the athlete to check that any substances or methods used do not appear on WADA’s current List of Prohibited Substances and Methods.

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