Apt (France) (AFP)
Romain Bardet, worried about the current health crisis, wondered about the meaning of continuing the Paris-Nice cycling race on Friday, after having shown himself at the front during the 6th stage leading to Apt.
"I drove all the time, I enjoyed myself in front of it, as much to be taken by the ambient madness, when nothing else makes sense," reacted the leader of the AG2R La Mondiale team.
The Auvergnat deplored "especially the lack of unity" in the peloton: "Some are leaving, others are not, we may end up with 30 runners, I wonder where the direction is in there. -vis the rest of the population, we do our little run as if nothing had happened. "
At the end of a day marked by the postponement of Giro dates, his first major personal goal in May, the Frenchman declared: "It's hard to react hot, nothing surprises me in 2020. I'm especially a little worried about the general health situation. When things get better, we will manage to project ourselves on a sports calendar. There, we don't really know how the pandemic will evolve. This is what worries me, the idea that the worst is yet to come. "
If the Giro could not take place in the spring, logic would require that Bardet participate in the Tour de France, according to the indications provided by his team boss Vincent Lavenu.
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