French races 2020

specialgueststar

First race nearly in January
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Grand Prix Cycliste la Marseillaise on 02-02-2020 France Europe Tour
Etoile de Bessèges from 05-02-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour de la Provence from 13-02-2020 France UCI ProSeries
52e Tour Cycliste International du Var et des Alpes Maritimes from 20-02-2020 France Europe Tour
Faun-Ardèche Classic on 29-02-2020 France UCI ProSeries


Royal Bernard Drome Classic on 01-03-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Paris-Nice from 08-03-2020 France UCI WorldTour
Paris-Troyes on 15-03-2020 France Europe Tour
Grand Prix de Denain - Porte du Hainaut on 19-03-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Tour de Normandie from 23-03-2020 France Europe Tour
Classic Loire Atlantique on 28-03-2020 France Europe Tour
Cholet - Pays de la Loire on 29-03-2020 France Europe Tour
Route Adélie de Vitré on 03-04-2020 France Europe Tour
La Roue Tourangelle Centre Val de Loire - Trophée Harmonie Mutuelle on 05-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire from 07-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Circuit des Ardennes International from 10-04-2020 France Europe Tour

Paris-Roubaix on 12-04-2020 France UCI WorldTour

Paris-Camembert on 14-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour du Loir et Cher from 15-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour du Jura Cycliste from 17-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour du Finistère on 18-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Tro-Bro Léon on 19-04-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste from 25-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Paris-Mantes Cycliste on 26-04-2020 France Europe Tour
Grand Prix de la Somme « Conseil Départemental 80» on 03-05-2020 France Europe Tour
4 Jours de Dunkerque / Grand Prix des Hauts de France from 05-05-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour from 14-05-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour d'Eure-et-Loir from 15-05-2020 France Europe Tour
Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan on 16-05-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Boucles de l'Aulne - Châteaulin on 17-05-2020 France Europe Tour
Mercan'Tour Classic Alpes-Maritimes on 18-05-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour de l'Ain from 21-05-2020 France Europe Tour
A Travers les Hauts de France from 22-05-2020 France Europe Tour
Boucles de la Mayenne from 28-05-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Tour de la Mirabelle from 29-05-2020 France Europe Tour

Critérium du Dauphiné from 31-05-2020 France UCI WorldTour

Ronde de l'Oise from 04-06-2020 France Europe Tour
Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge on 08-06-2020 France Europe Tour
La Route d'Occitanie - La Dépêche du Midi from 11-06-2020 France Europe Tour
Le Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc from 11-06-2020 France Europe Tour

Tour de France from 27-06-2020 France UCI WorldTour[/b]

16ème Tour Alsace from 22-07-2020 France Europe Tour
Grand Prix de la ville de Pérenchies on 26-07-2020 France Europe Tour
Kreiz Breizh Elites from 31-07-2020 France Europe Tour
La Poly Normande on 16-08-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour du Limousin from 18-08-2020 France Europe Tour

Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France on 23-08-2020 France UCI WorldTour

75 eme Grand Prix International de la ville de Nogent-sur-Oise on 23-08-2020 France Europe Tour
Grand Prix des Marbriers on 25-08-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle Aquitaine from 25-08-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour du Doubs on 06-09-2020 France Europe Tour
GP de Fourmies / La Voix du Nord on 13-09-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Grand Prix d'Isbergues - Pas de Calais on 20-09-2020 France Europe Tour
Duo Normand on 20-09-2020 France Europe Tour
Paris-Chauny (classique) on 27-09-2020 France Europe Tour
Tour de Vendée on 04-10-2020 France Europe Tour
Paris-Bourges on 08-10-2020 France Europe Tour
Paris - Tours Elite on 11-10-2020 France UCI ProSeries
Chrono des Nations on 18-10-2020 France Europe Tour

ocdupalais

With a list like that, you'd think they'd be better at winning some of them by now, non?

specialgueststar

OCDuPalais wrote:

With a list like that, you'd think they'd be better at winning some of them by now, non?

World ranking last 5 years 4 2 3 1 4 points coming from somewhere?


c'est la vérité

inseine

SpecialGuestStar wrote:

OCDuPalais wrote:

With a list like that, you'd think they'd be better at winning some of them by now, non?

World ranking last 5 years 4 2 3 1 4 points coming from somewhere?


c'est la vérité

Isn't there a thread for these races?

inseine

The rankings are nonsense. Example; Benoit Cosnefroy ( me neither ) is a better rider than Simon Yates even with two stages of the TdF ( worth the same points a s Cosnefroys 7th in Bretagne classic), 2 seconds and a 3rd in the Giro, a stage of Paris Nice and overall in Ruta del Sol.

specialgueststar

inseine wrote:

SpecialGuestStar wrote:

OCDuPalais wrote:

With a list like that, you'd think they'd be better at winning some of them by now, non?

World ranking last 5 years 4 2 3 1 4 points coming from somewhere?


c'est la vérité

Isn't there a thread for these races?

ridgerider

So is there a French equivalent of British Cycling who organise all these, or is it more ad hoc than that?

But it does highlight the difference in grassroots cycling culture between our two neighbouring countries!

inseine

Ridgerider wrote:

So is there a French equivalent of British Cycling who organise all these, or is it more ad hoc than that?

But it does highlight the difference in grassroots cycling culture between our two neighbouring countries!

I guess all the bigger events are FFC, though when I raced they were FFC or UFOLEP (who run loads of different sports) and there's FFCT (tourist organisation but they also organise races). It's quite confusing to find events.

blazing_saddles

No idea where to put this news, but since one of the two is definitely French.

Two monuments hit on the same day, one permanently.

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/milan-san-remos-final-climb-poggio-closed-landslides-443729

https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/penultimate-paris-roubaix-cobbled-sector-partially-tarmacked-443659

No_Ta_Doctor

*screams*

bobmcstuff

Can't they just fence along the edge of the cobbles?