Effects of coronavirus on professional races

[tobydawq]

I agree with pretty much everything you said.
Giro (unless weather plays a role) to go through, Gent sure, Ronde I would expect to go through.
P-R I expect to be cancelled, but might go through nonetheless
Vuelta in shortened version, maybe?

What about Paris-Tours?

I expect no cancellations.

 

[Pantani_lives]

According to this article Paris-Roubaix might be held without spectators, which would be better than not being held at all.

 

[Berflamand]

It would be a strange sight seeing the riders ride over cobble sectors like Carrefour de l'Arbre without any spectators. I wonder if this could have a substantial impact on the way the riders tackle the cobbles without those walls of noice and cheers. At least there won't be any risks of crashing into spectators, getting tangled up in a flag or being sprayed with beer.

 

[tobydawq]

It would be a strange sight seeing the riders ride over cobble sectors like Carrefour de l'Arbre without any spectators. I wonder if this could have a substantial impact on the way the riders tackle the cobbles without those walls of noice and cheers. At least there won't be any risks of crashing into spectators, getting tangled up in a flag or being sprayed with beer.

Echelons on the cobbles!

 

[Sciatic]

Time changes for the Trifecta of rescheduled events on 25 Oct:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1314290351604203526

View: https://twitter.com/laflammerouge16/status/1314290351604203526?s=21

 

[Armchair cyclist]

It would be a strange sight seeing the riders ride over cobble sectors like Carrefour de l'Arbre without any spectators. I wonder if this could have a substantial impact on the way the riders tackle the cobbles without those walls of noice and cheers. At least there won't be any risks of crashing into spectators, getting tangled up in a flag or being sprayed with beer.

No fans means no barriers, and no barriers means they will ride on the edge of the road, avoiding the worst of the cobbles. A neutered PR?

 

[RedheadDane]

No fans means no barriers, and no barriers means they will ride on the edge of the road, avoiding the worst of the cobbles. A neutered PR?

Unless they put barriers up to force the riders to ride on the cobbles.

 

[jflemaire]

Just in: Paris-Roubaix cancelled (source: AFP)

 

[tobydawq]

Why decide it so far out?

 

[tobydawq]

Wait, will Paris-Tours still go ahead?

 

[RedheadDane]

Wait, will Paris-Tours still go ahead?

I suppose so. I think the reason for the cancellation of P-R is the situation in the finish area.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

im depressed. Man they just waited too long with the whole restart and pushed the dates too far back... right into the 2nd wave. Just poor planning

 

[richwallone]

im depressed. Man they just waited too long with the whole restart and pushed the dates too far back... right into the 2nd wave. Just poor planning

It's easy to be armchair quarterback after the fact

But I agree they could have easily restart the season around beginning of June although I think many countries still had restrictions on movement of people and organizing of large scale sports events... IIRC, they started to ease them off around mid- to late June.

 

[yaco]

im depressed. Man they just waited too long with the whole restart and pushed the dates too far back... right into the 2nd wave. Just poor planning

The recommencement of the season should have been a month earlier.

 

[Andy262]

Gutted to lose the best race of the year.

But I'd have settled for 3 or 4 monuments earlier this year.

I fear for the Vuelta a bit though.

 

[IndianCyclist]

I think he got it before the Giro

 

[Pantani_lives]

Bakelants tested positive as well. He has mild symptoms. His season is finished. Benoot won't be in Gent-Wevelgem because he had close contact in the same TV studio.

 

[RedheadDane]

Bakelants tested positive as well. He has mild symptoms. His season is finished. Benoot won't be in Gent-Wevelgem because he had close contact in the same TV studio.

Is that the first cross-team close contact to positive withdrawal we've had?

 

[tobydawq]

Bakelants tested positive as well. He has mild symptoms. His season is finished. Benoot won't be in Gent-Wevelgem because he had close contact in the same TV studio.

Lol, seriously? The Giro can continue despite all of them having been in the peloton with Yates for a week but because Benoot was in a TV studio with Bakelants he is banned.

Ri. Di. Cu. Lous.

 

[Pantani_lives]

Lol, seriously? The Giro can continue despite all of them having been in the peloton with Yates for a week but because Benoot was in a TV studio with Bakelants he is banned.

Ri. Di. Cu. Lous.

I think it's a decision from Sunweb. Benoot is expected back in RvV.

 

[Danskebjerge]

I heard that Yates' room mate stays in the Giro? Does that make sense?

 

[Sciatic]

I heard that Yates' room mate stays in the Giro? Does that make sense?

Not to me it doesn’t. Plus if Yates is showing symptoms, it means he has contagious for a day or more before the symptoms appeared.

 

[dusty red roads]

Who was Yates' room mate?

 

[Keram]

Not to me it doesn’t. Plus if Yates is showing symptoms, it means he has contagious for a day or more before the symptoms appeared.

This could blow up to organizators faces spectacularly.

 

[tobydawq]

I'm not so scared. Riders getting confectious diseases is unlikely to be a new thing, and it's not like this is infinitely more contagious than the common cold or the flu, and we quite rarely see entire pelotons (or indeed large parts) falling victim to the same disease during a race...