The peloton on empty fields in 2020? - Thibault Camus / AP / SIPA

Romain Bardet spoke about it at the start of the week: maintaining the Tour de France 2020 seems less utopian than that of the Olympic Games, postponed to 2021. Opinion visibly shared by the Minister of Sports, Roxana Maracineanu, who said Wednesday "imaginable" holding a Great Loop behind closed doors.

“Everything is imaginable, we have already done it for other competitions before, it does not have the same impact even if the economic model of the Tour de France is not based on ticketing as it is the case for football and rugby matches ”, affirmed the minister, questioned by radio France Bleu on the possibility of a Big Loop behind closed doors.

Not so penalizing

The government is in discussions with ASO, the organizer, on the fate reserved for the most prestigious of the Grand Tours, after the postponement of one year of the Olympic Games and the Euro of football and while sport, including cycling , is almost completely stopped until further notice.

"I think that today, everyone is aware and responsible for the period of confinement [...] and the benefits that it may bring [...] to stay at home and prefer the television show rather than the show in live, so ultimately it would not be so penalizing since we could follow him on television, "continued the minister. Since its creation in 1903, the Tour, which has become a phenomenon of society as much as of sport, was only stopped by the two world wars.

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Coronavirus: For Romain Bardet, maintaining the Tour de France "seems less utopian" than that of the Olympic Games

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