With almost a week behind the date initially set, the calendar for the end of the cycling season was finally revealed, Tuesday, May 5, by the International Cycling Union (UCI). The resumption of competitions is scheduled for August 1, before a sequence which will see the Tour de France (August 29 - September 20) precede by only a few days the Giro d'Italia (October 4 - 25). The Vuelta a España will begin even when the participants of the Tour of Italy have not concluded their journey.
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During this same period, monument hunters will have to make choices, since Liège-Bastogne-Liège (October 4), the Tour of Flanders (October 18), Paris-Roubaix (October 25) and the Tour of Lombardy (October 31) are all scheduled at the same time as the major Tours. Only Milan-San Remo, which was scheduled before the Tour de France (August 8), escapes this treatment.
"A changing situation"
The UCI also specifies that the organization window for the national championships is fixed from 20 to 23 August, a little more than a month before the online Worlds (27 September). "These dates, crucial for the stakeholders, however remain naturally subject to the lifting, until the end of the season, of the restrictions established by the competent authorities in the territories concerned with regard to the organization of events", however moderates the UCI in a press release.
"We are seeing a changing situation, which could lead the UCI to adjust the calendar to take account of the evolution of the pandemic," also specifies the international federation.
Paris-Roubaix for women, a first
On the sidelines of the unveiling of the redesigned 2020 calendar, the UCI also took the opportunity to announce the holding, on October 25, of a women's Paris-Roubaix. A race which will be held "in prologue of the men race" and whose organization methods will be "soon communicated.
"The UCI very clearly indicates the way for women's cycling", reacted the director of the Tour de France Christian Prudhomme. "In recent years, the junior race has taken place in the morning. This time, there will be no junior race. We therefore seize the possibility," he explained, while evoking the possibility of starting a dynamic. leading to the creation of the equivalent of a female Tour de France.
"Our will is still the same. We have started thinking about a women's event which would take place after the Tour de France. But the calendar has been considerably changed, 2021 included since there will be the Olympic Games. It would be logical things to consider for 2022 ", recognized the owner of the Tour.
• The WorldTour men's calendar 2020:
August 1: Strade Bianche
August 5 to 9: Tour of Poland
August 8: Milan-Sanremo
August 12 to 16: Dauphiné
August 16: Ride London
August 25: Brittany Classic
August 29 to September 20: Tour de France
September 7 to 14: Tirreno-Adriatico
September 11: Quebec GP
September 13: Montreal GP
September 29 to October 3: BinckBank Tour
September 30: Flèche Wallonne
October 3 to 25: Tour of Italy
October 4: Liège-Bastogne-Liège
October 10: Amstel Gold Race
October 11: Ghent-Wevelgem
October 14: Through Flanders
October 15 to 20: Tour of Guangxi
October 18: Tour of Flanders
October 20 to November 8: Tour of Spain
October 21: Bruges De Panne
October 25: Paris-Roubaix
October 31: Tour of Lombardy
• Canceled races:
Tour of Catalonia, initially scheduled from March 23 to 29
E3 Classic (BEL), March 27
Tour of the Basque Country (ESP), from April 6 to 11
Tour de Romandie (SUI), from April 28 to May 3
Tour de Suisse, from June 7 to 14
Clasica San Sebastian (ESP), July 25
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