SA cyclists upbeat about Tour de France reschedule
Race will follow the route announced in October, beginning in Nice in the south and ending, as always, in Paris
15 April 2020 - 18:23
Wednesday’s announcement that the 2020 Tour de France has been postponed officially by two months but will still go ahead has been greeted with much relief and cautious optimism by SA’s top cyclists.
On Wednesday, Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), the organisers of the Tour and several other big events on the global cycling calendar, confirmed the race would start on August 29 and finish on September 20. It was originally scheduled for June 27 to July 19, but the coronavirus pandemic put the staging of the race in jeopardy with France in lockdown and public gatherings banned...
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