The Olympics 2020 postponed, will the Tour de France also go to the pan? Calendar logic would say yes, since the start of the Great Loop is earlier than the initial scheduled date of the Tokyo Olympics. But Romain Bardet believes in another scenario.
“The question is inevitable, all the media attention will be on the Tour de France. We, the actors first, we ask ourselves, this is the only thread that will be able to hang on to a season, "he said.
A way out of the crisis before the Tour?
“The conditions seem totally different for the Tour de France (compared to the Olympic Games). We have a well identified population (of runners), there are possibilities not to confine but to reduce certain aspects, taking care not to distort the event. It seems less utopian for the Tour to be organized, if the pandemic is under control on French territory. But I think it is still far too early to say. We know that strong measures have been taken. I am hopeful that by the Tour de France there will be a way out of the crisis ”.
"It also seems complicated to me to think that the Tour could be held completely normally," he added, citing in particular "the reception of the public, when we know that people come from the whole planet" and fairness. : “There are no more doping controls at this time, we have no longitudinal monitoring. Will sport equity be respected if controls are not deployed by then? "
Bardet does not believe in the European tour of Matteo Trentin
As for the idea of the Italian rider Matteo Trentin, who on Tuesday imagined a grand tour bringing together Giro, Tour de France and Vuelta, in a single test with stages in the three countries, Bardet commented: “I am a convinced European and I think the idea is wonderful. But it's completely utopian to think that it is achievable, we are rather trying to save the races rather than creating one from scratch. But hey, it's allowed to dream. In these difficult times, it is a good thing. "
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