Report: Tour de France looks to postponement
Organisers are yet to announce changes from a scheduled June 27 start in Nice.
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There’s still no official word on new plans for the 2020 Tour de France, which is still scheduled for June 27th in Nice.
Given France’s impact from the coronavirus -currently at over 94,000 cases and 14,000 deaths- it seems highly optimistic, if not unrealistic.
Organisers are said to be working on a postponement of several weeks rather than a total cancellation.
French newspaper Le Parisien and the Spanish news agency Efe, Tour organiser ASO has contacted the mayors of some of the start and finish towns for the 2020 race route to check support for the delay. The new Plan B dates – if French medical experts, the French government, and the UCI agree the race can go ahead – would be to start in Nice on Saturday, July 25, and end in Paris on August 16.
Reuters also claimed it has seen an email that was sent to the different publishers of the official Tour programme.
ASO has reportedly set a deadline of May 15 to decide if the Tour will run on its scheduled dates or if it will be postponed.
Source: Cyclingnews.com
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Irresponsible not to postpone, not just because it’s a few hundred people moving around France but there is also no way participants can be fit enough to compete after months in lockdown.
Large events *may* be permitted after mid-July, so even the alternative dates look unlikely.
They are slow moving….and I think even June…or this year at all…is wishful thinking…?