After the postponement of the Olympic Games this year, Mathieu van der Poel hoped to make his debut in the Tour de France, but according to Tour boss Christian Prudhomme, it has never been an option to invite extra teams. Alpecin-Fenix, the Van der Poel team, did not receive a wildcard in January from Tour … Read more
Romain Bardet will ride the Tour de France anyway. The French top rider of AG2R La Mondiale would initially skip the Tour de France for the first time in his career to participate in the Giro d’Italia and the Vuelta a España. The Tour typically falls between the Giro and the Vuelta, but was postponed … Read more
The boss of the AG2R La Mondiale team, Vincent Lavenu, said on Wednesday that his rider, Romain Bardet, would most likely be among the entrants of the 2020 edition of the Tour de France, postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. – – “There is a good chance that Romain will be at the start”, said … Read more
Tour de France boss Christian Prudhomme is happy that a new date has been found for the Tour de France. The Frenchman fears that teams will fall if the biggest cycling race cannot be driven this year due to the corona crisis. “Everyone in the cycling world supported the idea, even those who don’t usually … Read more
Now the Corona crisis is hitting the next major sporting event after the European Football Championship and the Olympic Games: The Tour de France, which was originally supposed to start in late June, is being postponed. A new date has already been set. The Tour de France 2020 is postponed due to the Corona crisis … Read more
The Tour de France will definitely not start on the scheduled date of June 27. French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed this to the French newspaper on Monday evening Le Dauphiné Libéré. At the beginning of the evening, Macron gave a press conference in which he announced, among other things, that no large public events should … Read more
You don’t get too close to Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour de France, if you attest him to a very stable self-confidence. And so it came as no surprise when the 59-year-old put forward a daring thesis in the cycling world two weeks ago that could soon plop him down on his feet. … Read more
“Deep down, I only hope one thing: that the Tour will take place in July. It’s a little light that makes you feel good. Even if it’s far away, this hope is also what we need right now. If the race can take place on the scheduled dates, that means that we will be projected … Read more