Loading ...Face masks to return at Tour de France to limit COVID-19 cases in the peloton
The Tour de France organisers have drawn up a new COVID-19 protocol for this year’s race to try to limit the risk of infection inside the peloton, with riders, team staff and officials set to wearing face masks at sign-on and in the team paddock, while riders will be banned from signing autographs.
Cyclingnews, like other media and officials, were informed that face masks were obligatory at the stage start and finish of the race. Tour de France organiser ASO told Cyclingnews that they have to still to release any information regarding a Tour de France COVID-19 protocol but all ASO staff wore face masks at the Criterium du Dauphine.
Since it is France we are talking about, whosoever in officialdom obligates the wearing of masks, should himself be confined in whatever is the modern equivalent of the Bastille to wear an iron mask for the remainder of the period of new world order disease hysteria.