Lefevre: “Organizer ASO can take a beating, the teams can't. If there is no Tour de France, the whole model of cycling can collapse. ”
They had better be ready; by July what are the chances? Riding up mountains with fans running 6 inches away from their faces, screaming and shouting? Even if they, somehow, get fans to stay back, in a few months it's all going to be ok for large crowds and whole road systems and towns to be closed for days? It's not going to happen. I would put money on the Vuelta not going ahead too.
Lefevre: “Organizer ASO can take a beating, the teams can't. If there is no Tour de France, the whole model of cycling can collapse. ”
They had better be ready; by July what are the chances? Riding up mountains with fans running 6 inches away from their faces, screaming and shouting? Even if they, somehow, get fans to stay back, in a few months it's all going to be ok for large crowds and whole road systems and towns to be closed for days? It's not going to happen. I would put money on the Vuelta not going ahead too.