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Despite the curfew brake, French sport finally sees the end of the tunnel

2021-05-14T13:21:21.217Z


The gradual return, from May 19, of the public to the stadiums and to the roadsides relieves clubs and organizers.


Seeing Rafael Nadal clenching his fist in the middle of a crowded Roland-Garros Central or watching the Tour de France convicts cut through the human tide on the Tourmalet tar will not be for this year yet. In Paris, Lyon or Marseille, the fan zones during Euro football (June 11-July 11) will not be packed either like the AT&T Stadium in Arlington (Texas) where 70,000 people were gathered for a fight. boxing (Alvarez-Saunders) last weekend. But after months of uncertainty and matches played in boudoir atmospheres, the gradual return and in limited numbers of spectators in the coming weeks in the sports arenas and along the roads of France is experienced as a real deliverance by the organizers and clubs.

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Source: lefigaro

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