Cycling news - '90% of us think we won't make it to Nice' - Jasper Stuyven
Updated 10/03/2020 at 20:26 GMT
Jasper Stuyven has claimed that the vast majority of riders on the Paris-Nice do not believe the race will be completed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
Sporting events across Europe have been postponed or cancelled all together thanks to the outbreak of the disease, and fears are growing for the future of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, with Italy under lockdown.
Nonetheless, three stages of Paris-Nice have been completed but Stuyven doubts whether the other five will be.
"If you look around in the peloton, 90 percent assume that we will not get to Nice," Stuyven is quoted as saying by Het Laatste Nieuws.
"Perhaps this new measure is the next step in that direction."
Several cycling events across the continent have been cancelled or postponed, including the Strade Bianche, the GP Industria & Artigianato, the Tirreno – Adriatico, the Milano – Sanremo and Settimana Coppi e Bartali, while the UAE Tour was abandoned midway through the event after staff members contracted Covid-19.
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