PARIS (AFP) - 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.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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 coronavirus lockdown.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in a televised address Monday that a strict lockdown in France would continue until at least May 11 and public gatherings were banned until mid July. "It is up to the organiser to analyse their ability to organise it and reschedule it," Castaner said on French radio.ASO's reorganisation task is massive for an event with 21 start towns, 21 finish lines and over 3,000km of route and 500,000 roadside fans per day.
"The Tour de France is 3,000km of smiles," ASO chief Christian Prudhomme has said in reference to the holiday roadside gatherings."We won't run a Tour de France without the fans." ASO own the Criterium du Dauphine eight-day race and had been hoping to use that jaunt through the Alps in late June or early July. But that event has been postponed.
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