2020 Tour de France

[Newportnobby]

I don't want to start another Covid-19 thread but can someone please explain to me how the heck this would work, or is the poor woman totally deluded?..............

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/tour-de-france/tour-de-france-2020-could-go-ahead-behind-closed-doors-says-sports-minister-452659

[crewearpley40]

Is she in the right mind ? The teams, riders, fans should boycott . Postpone it madame

[daffy]

I think it'll probably   work like this:
Each team will be locked in their own room on a team sponsored set of Peloton spinners wearing VR headsets that give sight of all the other riders progress as they go ..... absolutely nowhere!

Would make for riveting TV. 

Or not.

Some folks just haven't got to grips with the real reality , it seems.

[Newportnobby]

Oui - je pense qu'elle a perdu le plot

[Bealman]

Oui, moi aussi! 

[njee20]

C'est fou!

Yeah, wouldn't work at all. Daft statement.

I think it'll probably   work like this:
Each team will be locked in their own room on a team sponsored set of Peloton spinners wearing VR headsets that give sight of all the other riders progress as they go ..... absolutely nowhere!

Would make for riveting TV. 

Or not.

There are a few streamed VR races, most popularly using the "Zwift" platform, and actually they're not too bad to watch! eSports is definitely going to get bigger.

[GrahamB]

While I acknowledge that not all cyclists are totally insane.........

Yesterday, after three days being indoors we decided we really needed a walk. We proceeded along a nice empty high street until we came to some seats by the traffic lights. There we had what I can only assume was a cycle club with eleven (I counted them) cyclists stopped and they were all sitting together on the seats!

I was going to take a photo (From the other side of the road) but my wife felt it was better to get out of the way quickly.

[Bealman]

It's the same sort of situation here. Some people are so thick, they just don't get it.

Anyway, NewportNobby doesn't want this to morph into another virus thread, but I really don't see how it cannot 

[daffy]

eSports?

Sounds like something an animated chap and his canine companion from up t'north might know about.

[crewearpley40]

Daffy. Please don't offend hookey. Feline maybe the word

[daffy]

Daffy. Please don't offend hookey. Feline maybe the word

[daffy]

Virtual race planned called 'Digital Swiss 5' already being arranged by the organisers of the Tour of Switzerland for the end of April:

https://www.velonews.com/2020/03/news/digital-swiss-5-virtually-assembles-worldtour-teams-to-race_508461

Level headed lot, the Swiss.

[Newportnobby]

Another deluded French person.................
https://www.velonews.com/2020/03/news/alaphilippe-a-tour-without-an-audience-would-not-be-the-same-thing_508512

Methinks money is behind the thinking. Do they really think people will stay indoors and watch it on TV when the peloton goes past their front door?

[njee20]

It won't happen. The teams led the withdrawals at the start, which led to cancellations. They can say that it'll carry on, but if no team sends any riders its pretty moot.

[TrevL]

Crazy idea!  All the pelotons I've ever seen, the riders were about two inches from each other, not two meters!