No guarantee Tour de France will go ahead, says French sports minister
by Agencies from on (#532TC)
- Roxana Mrcineanu made the comments to France Television
- Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a Espana will overlap in October
The French sports minister Roxana Maracineanu has delivered a stark warning to cycling, declaring that there is no guarantee" that the Tour de France will go ahead this year.
The Tour has already been rescheduled from June to a 29 August start because of the Covid-19 crisis, but the minister could offer little assurance that the race would be given the green light. With crowd-drawing events banned in France until the end of August, special arrangements might have to be made for the start of the Tour in Nice, the sports ministry said last month.
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