The Ile-de-France derby, scheduled at the end of the 21st day of Top 14 this Saturday evening will be postponed.
The League's Covid commission has indeed issued an unfavorable opinion this morning.
In question, positive cases detected at the UBB (which have already earned the postponement of the Agen-Bordeaux meeting), especially on the front line.
And, it seems, to the English variant, more contagious.
However, UBB and Racing faced each other last Sunday in the quarter-finals of the Champions Cup.
For Ile-de-France players considered as contact cases.
Canal + opposed to a postponement next Monday
The incubation period being seven days, the NRL did not want to take the slightest risk.
It remains to be seen when this meeting will be rescheduled.
The League and the Stade Français Paris would like it to be postponed to Monday evening (if the tests of Racing players, all negative on Wednesday, were again this Sunday).
But Canal + is not very hot to broadcast this derby on a Monday evening.
This poster will therefore more likely be reprogrammed on Saturday May 1 (European Cup weekend) at 9 p.m.
This postponement also implies an adjustment of the 21st day.
The kickoff of La Rochelle-Lyon, initially scheduled for Saturday at 5:45 p.m., should be postponed to 9:05 p.m. to become the Saturday night match on the encrypted channel.
Racing-Stade Français is the third match postponed of a 21st day decimated by the Covid-19 after Montpelier-Toulon (positive cases in the RCT workforce) and Agen-Bordeaux.
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