The bikes will have to stay hung in the garages.
Runners will be able to take advantage of the Sunday sofa.
As of this Saturday, Amateur competitions (road, cyclo-cross, etc.) are temporarily suspended, in order to be in compliance with the new general measures necessary to deal with the Covid-19 epidemic.
So decided by the FFC, the French Cycling Federation, which also wishes to "campaign for the maintenance of an appropriate individual cycling practice.
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Following government measures, @FFCycling announces the suspension of all competitions on the
amateur
calendar
and campaigns for the maintenance of appropriate individual cycling practice.
👉 More information: https://t.co/Wf62RbYXTI pic.twitter.com/1IDIE69Fkr
- FFC (@FFCyclisme) October 31, 2020
The FFC is based on one of the paragraphs of decree n ° 2020-1310 published in the official journal of October 29: “
6 °.
Short trips, within the limit of one hour per day and within a maximum radius of one kilometer around the home, linked either to the individual physical activity of people, to the exclusion of any collective sporting practice and any proximity to 'other people.
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Nevertheless, and taking into account "the experience of the first period of confinement", the federation calls on the authorities "to take into account the importance of the associative dynamic and the maintenance of sufficient sporting practice so that the nation can endure the effects of such a crisis.
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Encourage extracurricular practice
This request concerns in particular the "possibilities of supervision of minors for cycling (in particular within the framework of extracurricular time, to allow a reception by the cycling schools)", as well as "the encouragement to the use of the bicycle as a means of transport and details of the possibilities left to the use of the bicycle within the framework of individual physical activity ”.
All other sports practiced as an amateur were already at a standstill in France since the introduction of the reconfinement on October 30.
It was even already a week more in the case of handball.
Professional competitions are allowed to continue.