Calculated daring or utter delusion? A Tour de France like no other awaits | William Fotheringham
The Tour de France has always made it to Paris on schedule, but Covid-19 means this year’s race will be on a constant knife edge Of all the world’s great sports events, the Tour de France is the only one that goes out to its public. As the late Geoffrey Nicholson wrote, it is the only form of international conflict other than war that takes place on the doorstep. During a global pandemic, the edition that should start in Nice on Saturday is uniquely significant and uniquely risky. The conditional says it all: the 2020 Tour has been in doubt since March, it was postponed in April and it will be on a knife edge as long as it lasts....