USA's Ian Garrison blocked from traveling to Deceuninck-QuickStep's European camp

Ian Garrison (Deceuninck-QuickStep) (Image credit: Getty Images)

Ian Garrison has been stopped from boarding a flight from the USA to Europe for Deceuninck-QuickStep's key training camp under the European Union's stricter COVID-19 travel recommendations.

The American WorldTour neo-pro was trying to fly from Atlanta to Amsterdam to eventually join his teammates at a training camp at Passo San Pellegrino in the Italian Dolomites but will now have to return to his family home in Atlanta and hope he can fly to Europe before racing resumes in late July and early August.

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