Will Roland Garos' courts be deserted next May? In any case, this is the threat posed by the coronavirus on the sports competition, which brings together hundreds of thousands of spectators each year and which will be held in less than two months. "We are not in the perspective of cancellation or postponement", believes for the time being Jean-François Vilotte, n ° 2 of the French Tennis Federation, interviewed by Europe 1.
"On the other hand, we are studying different organizational scenarios in order to be responsible organizers and take into account the constraints of the moment and to find solutions that will allow any contamination of the virus to be contained as best as possible during the organization," he continues.
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It is not a confined enclosure
What scenarios are these? They "range from managing entry flows to stadiums, to make it easier to avoid fixation abscesses. We are also working on distribution scenarios for a number of prevention kits. We are working also to the spectator location to, if necessary and with the public authorities, cancel the spectator tickets that would come from risk areas. And we are also working on gauge hypotheses ", enumerates Jean-François Vilotte, according to who it would be possible to organize Roland Garros because it is not a confined space.