Paris-Roubaix could be postponed to the end of October

Since the declarations of the prefect of the North who, on Monday, misunderstood how Paris-Roubaix could take place on Sunday, April 11, given the difficult health situation in the Hauts de France region, which is in the red zone and confined on weekends. end, the announcement of the postponement of the Queen of Classics is in the air.

Thus, the newspaper Le Parisien-Today in France, ASO’s partner on the Grande Boucle, announced this Wednesday morning that the northern classic will not take place on the scheduled date. After the cancellation of the 2020 edition, this time it would be a postponement. The dates of October 24 and 31 are cited as possible fallbacks. The UCI having already decided to postpone the planned date of the end of the season by two weeks.

According to the Parisian daily, the announcement was to be formalized during the day.

However, at ASO, organizer of Paris-Roubaix, we claim to have received no official information on Wednesday noon as to a possible postponement of the race. Better, Thierry Gouvenou and his colleagues are precisely in recognition of the route, between Compiègne and Roubaix, of the cobbled sectors in order to seek solutions so that everything is implemented so that the race still takes place in a little over two weeks ( sanitary bubbles, closed doors at the start and finish, paved sections closed to the public…).

ASO also says a final decision is not expected to be made until next week.

To be continued, until the next episode …

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