For the Tour de France, one of the last of the summer's major sports events still standing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the stop-watch ...
Christian Prudhomme is keeping mum on when he might start this year's Tour de France AFP/JEFF PACHOUDPRIS: For the Tour de France, one of the last of the summer's major sports events still standing in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, the stop-watch is ticking.
That means training rides and races and with most prospective competitors confined, the chances of their getting back on the road by late April look slim. Last week, when he announced the postponement of the Dauphine, an eight-day Tour warm-up stage race in the southeast of France due to start on May 31, Prudhomme said:"The most important word in Tour de France is France, and health concerns come first."The situation across Europe suggests that a postponement is increasingly likely.
Welshman Geraint Thomas, the winner in 2018, and Julian Alaphilippe, France's hero of the 2019 Tour after wearing the leader's jersey for 14 days, used almost identical words.Many politicians from towns along the route have echoed the sentiment.Raphael Geminiani, who raced the Tour in 1947, said if the Tour went ahead it could bring France back to life.
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