{"id":177485,"date":"2020-04-16T09:43:05","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T09:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/?p=177485"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:59:17","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:59:17","slug":"tour-de-france-is-officially-postponed-and-the-pros-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2020\/04\/16\/tour-de-france-is-officially-postponed-and-the-pros-react\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de France Is Officially Postponed and the Pros React"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span lang=\"en-GB\">The greatest cycling race in the world will start in Nice on August 29 and finish in Paris on September 20, 2020.<\/span><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">The race had been previously scheduled to start on June 28. The Tour\u2019s organiser ASO hoped to wait until May to make the final call on whether the Grand Tour will start as planned. However, the French president Emmanuel Macron decided to ban all sporting events until at least July 15.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/B_C01IXgN2A\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span lang=\"en-GB\">Following the President\u2019s address on Monday evening, where large-scale events were banned in France until mid-July as a part of the fight against the spread of Covid-19, the organisers of the Tour de France, in agreement with the Union Cycliste Internationale (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/tag\/uci\">UCI<\/a>), have decided to postpone the Tour de France to start on Saturday, August 29 and finish on Sunday, September 20, 2020.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">ASO confirmed the Tour will follow the originally scheduled 21-stage route.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">The likes of Chris Froome and Julian Alaphilippe were quick to respond.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"embed-controller-wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m seeing a lot of negativity and despondency on my timeline, I know this period has been tough on all of us, and bike racing is not important in the greater scheme of things. But let&#39;s take hope in that we may return to some sort of normality in the near future <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LeTour?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LeTour<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/91XWqIwgmm\">pic.twitter.com\/91XWqIwgmm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Froome (@chrisfroome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chrisfroome\/status\/1250394783056568320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 15, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async data-src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>\u201c<span lang=\"en-GB\">I\u2019m really happy to finally have a calendar, to see that races like the Tour de France, the Worlds, and the Monuments are planned to go ahead,\u201d Julian Alaphilippe said on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.deceuninck-quickstep.com\/en\/news\/4380\/new-2020-calendar-unveiled\">Deceuninck \u2013 Quick-Step website<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a light at the end of the tunnel, which is something good for the morale in times like these as it gives you an extra boost to work harder in order to be fit for when the moment will come to be again with my teammates.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">The Tour should come first, then it is the World Championships, Giro d\u2019Italia and La Vuelta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"en-GB\">We hope to see you there!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest cycling race in the world will start in Nice on August 29 and finish in Paris on September [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":177489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[3622,425,4064,1887,433],"global-categories":[3366],"class_list":["post-177485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling","tag-2020-tour-de-france","tag-chris-froome","tag-emmanuel-macron","tag-julian-alaphilippe","tag-tour-de-france","global-categories-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Tour de France Is Officially Postponed and the Pros React - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The greatest cycling race in the world will start in Nice on August 29 and finish in Paris on September 20, 2020. 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