Take out the Stelvio and Agnello/Izoard combo and the Giro route is total crap...
Well the Giro route for 2020 was a touch disappointing - I will repeat that in these trying times, you need to be flexible with the placement of races.
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Take out the Stelvio and Agnello/Izoard combo and the Giro route is total crap...
We can add Mitchelton-Scott to the list of team with riders taking pay cuts.
Mitchelton-Scott riders accept salaries cuts to keep team afloat | Cycling Today Official
Mitchelton-Scott is the latest WorldTour team to reduce salaries as the team looks to survive the impact of the coronavirus.cycling.today
positive news from Germany today!
in a scientific study in the district of Heinsberg(west Germany) it was found out that 15% of the population are already immune against the corona virus!
you can translate this with deepl.com
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/art...Prozent-immun-erste-Lockerungen-moeglich.html
I didnt read what was the number of infected before this research was done. My german is nonexistent and translation was mess. That could add light to this. Ratio of infected before and after study. If real number is multiplied 3x or even more that can bring whole new prespective.
It was thought to be around 5%, when it was actually 15%. There was no comparable number of proven infections before, because they looked at a representative sample for the first time.
I think we need to treat these figures with caution though
positive news from Germany today!
in a scientific study in the district of Heinsberg(west Germany) it was found out that 15% of the population are already immune against the corona virus!
you can translate this with deepl.com
https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/art...Prozent-immun-erste-Lockerungen-moeglich.html
I also think a second wave might be coming around October, so I think it will be almost impossible to have a Giro this season.
Japan has said that they dont know whether the pandemic will be under control for Olympics in July 2021
In an interview for the Corriere the UCI Vice President said that racing is very unlikely before the very end of July/beginning of August, the proposal on which they are working now is having the Tour in the normal slot of the Vuelta (not the anticipated one planned for this year) ending the 20th of September then the Worlds, the Giro starting the 7th or 14th of October and the Vuelta not later than mid November.
It's possible we'll have a vaccine by spring of 2021.
There are also multiple treatments in trials currently with two that just started their second phase of human trials, which basically means mass trials instead of very small trials. So there are two that are showing very hopeful results. By summer of 2021 we will have at least 1 and likely more than for good treatments available.
Yes, many people have reminded me it can take 18 months or longer to complete the trials to bring a vaccine to market. But there has never been the global impetus as there now is to perfect a vaccine for COVID-19. The experts I have read are not saying this is impossible merely that it takes a long time to complete the testing and trials to ensure it is effective and safe. I am hopeful we see good news much earlier and normal expectations don't apply now. The related coronavirus strains of SARS and MERS no vaccine was developed but both those strains died out by themselves and before a vaccine was needed. It might also be that a treatment drug rather than a vaccine is our saviour. We will see.
Interesting as la Vuelta said about two weeks ago they will not move their dates for anyone or any reason and they will either race on their assigned dates or no one will be racing at all this year. That was basically their comment and that they definitely will not give their dates to any other race. IMO they will have no choice but to overlap Grand Tours.