Tour de France organisers are working feverishly in the shadows to find a new start date for cycling's biggest stage race after public gatherings ...
The Tour de france is synonymous with the holidays in France, here Julian Alaphilippe has fun with a fan. PARIS: Tour de France organisers are working feverishly in the shadows to find a new start date for cycling's biggest stage race after public gatherings were banned until mid-July in the latest extension of the French cornavirus lockdown.
Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said previously that riders would need two clear months after the lockdown ended to get ready for the race, which is no longer possible given the May 11 extension. "Social distancing on the roadside wouldn't be a problem, but in the start towns, at the finish line and in the VIP tents it certainly would," Belgian virologist Marc Van Ranst told Flemish tv station Sporza on Saturday.
A late July start for the Tour could be considered too close to that ban on public gatherings while also running up against another problem. To be able to race 21 tough stages, the athletes need to be in peak condition, and would ideally need a one-week preparation race before it. The Tour could be staged in September, but would lose its own sense of identity by moving out of the holiday period.
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