The Paris-Roubaix runners in the Arenberg gap, April 14, 2019. -

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Nothing is decided yet.

While some information reported Wednesday the cancellation of Paris-Roubaix, or its postponement to next fall, the outfit of the "queen of classics", scheduled for April 11, is still suspended to a prefectural decision that remains to be determined.

"The decision is not definitively taken, but it is a department where there is a real health problem", confirmed Thursday morning on France Info the Minister of Sports Roxana Maracineanu.

"Perhaps this event will have to be postponed," added the minister, three days after the statements of the prefect of Hauts-de-France Michel Lalande suggesting that the race was likely to be postponed again.

ASO has not yet communicated

"The prefect has assumed his responsibilities, we are still discussing with him," said Roxana Maracineanu without giving a date for the upcoming decision.

For its part, ASO (Amaury Sport Organization), which organizes Paris-Roubaix like most of the major French cycling races (Tour de France, Paris-Nice, etc.), has not reacted.

But its technical teams went this week to the race course, one of the five “monuments” of the cycling season.

Another “monument” which usually attracts a large audience, the Tour of Flanders remains scheduled in Belgium on April 4.

Strict measures have been enacted to keep the public away and enforce the “racing bubble”.

Most of the major cycling races have so far been held in 2021 despite covid-19.

Whether in France, with Paris-Nice, whose route for the last two stages had to be changed, however, due to the confinement in Nice and its surroundings, in Belgium or in Italy, with Milan-Sanremo although the start was given to the heart of Milan in an area classified as red by the Italian authorities.

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