John Degenkolb (team Lotto Soudal) has a lot of meaning in the Tour de France. That is highlighted in the box on Saturday, in an interview with several German media outlets. The Tour this year, is also due to the coronacrisis under threat, but it is currently still on the calendar. “I might even get a Tour of five weeks in a clinic, if necessary, the 31-year-old Degenkolb with a slight sense of exaggeration, write it down.
The Tour de France, which is about to begin on the 27th of June, which is the only major sporting event of the summer, and that is because of the coronacrisis has not yet been cancelled. Degenkolb is hoping that this is not going to happen.
“the Tour is an event in which some of the teams are able to survive,” he explained. “Seventy to eighty-five percent of all sponsor money be in the race to earn money. I hope with all of my heart that the race will take place.”
The team will now have no income, because all the matches are cancelled. That, inter alia, to the CREDIT of Greg Van Avermaet is in financial trouble. Also, Degenkolb, a former winner of Milan-san remo and Paris-Roubaix, and had to turn it in.
“As for the sponsors, it is difficult to have the lights quickly go out in the world”, he said. “I’m heading into the Tour, rather be with the fans, but as it is, without the supporters, I’m also ready for it. We are willing to make that sacrifice to make. It is important to ensure that there is a solution to be found. Maybe the politicians are right now to a certain point in time, a very severe action is taken. Then it will all be fine.”
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