The Tour de France organisers are hoping that they will only have to postpone the cycling event scheduled on 27 June due to the COVID-19 pandemic, rather than cancel the annual event.
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The cycling event was scheduled to take place from the 27 June to 19 July but given that many countries are currently undergoing lockdown procedures to reduce the spread of the coronavirus, it is unlikely that the event will be able to go ahead as scheduled.
Many cyclists have not be able to practise, let alone be cleared for travel in time for the originally intended dates.
Organisers are hoping that they will be able to postpone rather than actually have to cancel the Tour de France.
Just as the Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament, the Tour de France has only ever been cancelled during WWI and WWII since its inception in 1903.
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L’Equipe which is a newspaper owned by the some of the Tour de France organisers wrote:
“The unpredictable nature of the global crisis that we are all caught up in means that we will have to be patient until there’s an official announcement of (Tour organisers) ASO about the 2020 race, bearing in mind that the current focus is on a postponement until later in the summer rather than a cancellation,”
France is one of the top European countries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, currently recording 129,654 positive cases and a total of 13,832 confirmed deaths.
