Bjarne Riis is like so many others deeply affected by the corona of the epidemic. Rather, even more than the general public.
The Danish cykelboss resides close to Italy, there is a huge hard hit by the corona virus, and he tells now to Viaplay Sport Live, how he and his wife Anne Dorthe Tanderup handle the situation with four children, all is ordered back home to Switzerland.
“of Course we can feel it here. It is just to move outside so there’s not so many people as there used to be. In our small province, if you can call it that, we are 360 000 people, there are conditions worse than if we take the whole country together,” he says, and adds:
“So it is serious. We have 50-60.000 italians, who are coming across the border every day, where we live, but they do of course not now, because the borders are closed. But one can well imagine that in the beginning has been a big potential of getting the virus here in this part of Switzerland, and it is this that is the case, we have seen,” he says and explains about the precautions they take in the family Riis.
“We rushed as fast as possible to get the family together. We have four boys, two of them have been here, has been in Denmark and one in the UNITED states. We have been fortunate to get them home in a timely manner, and we are together and taking care of each other,” says Bjarne Riis, says that they also come to the outside, but it is limited.
“We go out once in between. but otherwise we try not to burden the society, for it is also it, it is at the moment. We shop once a week, and otherwise we live by the residues. Otherwise, we let be to mingle us with other people,” he explains.
Bjarne Riis is co-owner and sporty, responsible for the team – NTT Pro Cycling.
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