Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme urges spectators of this year’s race to wear a mask to respect runners and the occasion as long as the risks of coronavirus persist. At the same time, the Critérium du Dauphiné, which begins Wednesday in Clermont Ferrand and runs through the organizers of the ASO Tour, will serve as a costume practice session for La Grande Boucle later this month.
“There will be other people along the route in the Tour de France, and apart from the beginning, the endings and the climbs, where there will be restrictions, life will follow as elsewhere. That’s why we’re asking other people to wear masks.” Prudhomme said to the French newspaper Nice-Matin on Tuesday.
“If you like the Tour and its champions, wear a mask when you clap from the side of the road,” he said. “And it is not only in those areas, at the beginning and end, that it will apply; we need other people to use them everywhere.”
Prudhomme compared to this year’s Tour with other foreign sporting events, such as major tennis or football competitions, which do not allow the kind of athlete-amateur interaction enjoyed through professional cycling.
“This won’t be the year to ask for autographs or selfies,” he said. “The runners will say hello from afar, but those measures are the only explanation for why they may not be as friendly as usual. It will be more like At Wimbledon or during a Champions League final, where you can’t get an autograph from Roger Federer or Lionel Messi in the morning. But once the coronavirus pandemic is over, the Tour will return to normal, with the kind of glorious interactions we’re used to.”
This week’s Critérium du Dauphiné will now unveil the same measures that will be used in this year’s Tour, as explained through Dauphiné Career Director Thierry Gouvenou in an ASO press release on Tuesday, the measures explained to the groups. Same day.
“The Dauphiné will be a passage to the festival point and a repeat of the security measures,” Gouvenou said. “We created a “bubble”, with very little interaction with the media, race visitors and fans. Parking [of team buses] will be closed upon departure and arrival, and we will have a ‘mixed zone’ with express rules. for maintenance.
“We also restrict the number of other people who are allowed to enter the domain after the end line. In the field, enthusiasts will not be able to enter the refueling domain and we have more ‘waste zones’ for runners,” he added, referring to spaces where passengers can throw away unwanted food containers.
“The same will be true for the protocol of the podium: no kissing, no interaction between partners [sponsors], local representatives and runners. And the mask will be mandatory on the way, where local government decrees are applied,” Gouvenou said, hoping that the public in the road aspect will wear a mask, as Prudhomme claimed the Tour.
Tour organizers have also followed the national cycling league policy for the Dauphiné and Tour, which already applies to all French cycling races, where ”2020” means staying 2 meters from the runners at all times, asking for 0 autographs, recalling 2 important behaviors – use an antibacterial gel for the hands and wear a mask – and do 0 “0” with the runners.
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