FDJ manager Marc Madiot hope that the classic Paris-Roubaix, to be run Sunday, will be moved to the fall.
There will be built a great appetite to watch major sporting events on the other side of the coronakrisen.
It takes the former French cyclist Marc Madiot, who is the leader of the FDJ team.
This Sunday was forårsklassikeren Paris-Roubaix have been run, but cycling is deferred, and Madiot hope that the normal forårsløb be run in the autumn.
– When the sport returns, so we need the big events. We have built up an appetite.
– I am not concerned about whether it would be a success. The magic will continue to work, says Madiot on the Paris-Roubaix, known as the “Hell of the North”.
It is due to, among other things, that parts of the cycling takes place on the narrow, brostenslagte pavéer in the northern france. Here, the risk of the riders to puncture or be smeared in the mud under the rain.
Madiot, who even won the Paris-Roubaix in 1985 and 1991, see exciting prospects in that forårsklassikeren maybe can be run in the autumn.
– the Context will be changed and it will be the atmosphere, and the riders must figure the course out in a new way.
– For the first time, the riders will probably get to start with a tour (one of the three grand tours, red.) in the legs. I’m pretty excited to see how it will unfold, says Marc Madiot.
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