Shifted by a week (to refine the end of the route and squeeze through a congested schedule), the presentation of the 108th Tour de France (June 26-July 18) scheduled for Thursday at the Palais des Congrès was finally canceled due to the upsurge in the Covid-19 epidemic.
PRESENTATION OF THE TOUR DE FRANCE 2021: SEE YOU SUNDAY! # TDF2021pic.twitter.com / nifWHtd9gq
- Tour de France ™ (@LeTour) October 27, 2020
600 people were expected, elected officials, journalists and a few runners (due to competition from the Vuelta and a barely finished Giro) but given the worrying health situation, wisdom prevailed.
"We have received calls from elected officials who either are in contact, or have the Covid, or are worried, we had to resolve to cancel the presentation", indicates Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour.
The map of the Tour de France 2021, its novelties, its difficulties, its key passages, will be unveiled this Sunday in the program
Stade 2
, from 8:05 pm on
France 3
.
Starting point in all the teams of the vast reconnaissance strategy which will be spread out far in the spring.
The 2021 Tour will start from Brest, which will be the scene of the great start of the Grande Boucle for the fourth time, after 1952, 1974 and 2008. With four 100% Breton stages on the menu: “one 100% Finistère stage, one 100 stage % Côtes d'Armor, a 100% Morbihan stage and a 100% Ille et Vilaine stage ”, summarizes Christian Prudhomme, the director of the Tour.
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