Coronavirus and pro sport
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Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Have to say, as hat stands go that's a pretty cool one!RichN95. said:
Also looking at the helmets, he'll be riding for Jumbo Visma0 -
If any of that actually happens it will be astonishingblazing_saddles said:Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good.
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Vuelta was a tour of n Spain afair so no much in way of winter sun to look forward to.0
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If it doesn't it will be catastrophic.joe2019 said:
If any of that actually happens it will be astonishingblazing_saddles said:Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
If the does you get is enough to provoke an immune response,antibodies will be created and you'll be immune to reinfection.RichN95. said:
Isn't that bit in bold basically what vaccination is? But it gives you a lot stronger immunity.ugo.santalucia said:It might be possible to do the Tour in late August....
Here's my theory, that I formulated last night while browsing the quiet aisles of Waitrose for my weekly shopping...
People with the virus and no symptoms (or very mild ones) will visit shops and supermarkets and leave traces of the virus on surfaces and products, by touching and breathing. By the evening, after hundreds of customers have been there, it must be pretty ubiquitous... but crucially the concentration is never enough to actually give you the disease, but might be enough to trigger a very weak immune response, possibly enough to give you a BIT of immunity... hence when you get exposed to a larger dose, you do get a mild disease.
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I can't really see how the tour is going to happen this year despite the new dates. What's actually going to have changed over summer that will mean it's a good idea for events like this to go ahead?0
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nickice said:
I didn't quite understand the OP as if you get enough virus to provoke an immune response,antibodies will be created and you'll be immune to reinfection.RichN95. said:
Isn't that bit in bold basically what vaccination is? But it gives you a lot stronger immunity.ugo.santalucia said:It might be possible to do the Tour in late August....
Here's my theory, that I formulated last night while browsing the quiet aisles of Waitrose for my weekly shopping...
People with the virus and no symptoms (or very mild ones) will visit shops and supermarkets and leave traces of the virus on surfaces and products, by touching and breathing. By the evening, after hundreds of customers have been there, it must be pretty ubiquitous... but crucially the concentration is never enough to actually give you the disease, but might be enough to trigger a very weak immune response, possibly enough to give you a BIT of immunity... hence when you get exposed to a larger dose, you do get a mild disease.
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It looks like he's taken his School Pegs home from Primary school. Pump bags just out of sight I guess.focuszing723 said:
Have to say, as hat stands go that's a pretty cool one!RichN95. said:
Also looking at the helmets, he'll be riding for Jumbo Visma0 -
blazing_saddles said:
If it doesn't it will be catastrophic.joe2019 said:
If any of that actually happens it will be astonishingblazing_saddles said:Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good.
Not sure a couple of bike races skipping a year is catastrophic in the scheme of things these days.0 -
I guess he means catastrophic for cycling... with the all season cancelled, no revenues and most teams surviving on a shoestring at the best of times, it's difficult to see it bouncing back next year. The TdF is by far the most prominent event and might on its own "save the boat".fenix said:
Not sure a couple of bike races skipping a year is catastrophic in the scheme of things these days.
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Enric Mas of Movistar after a turbo session on his balcony today.
Ouch.
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Hardly in the scheme of thingsblazing_saddles said:
If it doesn't it will be catastrophic.joe2019 said:
If any of that actually happens it will be astonishingblazing_saddles said:Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good.
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That's dedication from the Danish championWheelspinner said:
Enric Mas of Movistar after a turbo session on his balcony today.
Ouch."Unfortunately these days a lot of people don’t understand the real quality of a bike" Ernesto Colnago2 -
Etape looking for a new date. Guess I won't be needing my accommodation in Nice this July...0
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It was inevitable the Tour would get first dibs, but that doesn't make it right. The Tour has an unhealthy hold over the rest of the season.
I'd have like to see the Giro in September, the Worlds, then the Tour, followed by the Vuelta; October/November is surely okay weatherwise?All Road/ Gravel: tbcWinter: tbcMTB: tbcRoad: tbc"Look at the time...." "he's fallen like an old lady on a cruise ship..."0 -
Doubtful in the Alps and Pyrenees.andyrac said:It was inevitable the Tour would get first dibs, but that doesn't make it right. The Tour has an unhealthy hold over the rest of the season.
I'd have like to see the Giro in September, the Worlds, then the Tour, followed by the Vuelta; October/November is surely okay weatherwise?
Interest in a flattish Tour has been raised before. Meh.The above may be fact, or fiction, I may be serious, I may be jesting.
I am not sure. You have no chance.Veronese68 wrote:PB is the most sensible person on here.0 -
Ugo answered the exact same response to yours, above.joe2019 said:
Hardly in the scheme of thingsblazing_saddles said:
If it doesn't it will be catastrophic.joe2019 said:
If any of that actually happens it will be astonishingblazing_saddles said:Right so things become a little clearer. The UCI have now made a press release.
https://www.uci.org/road/news/2020/the-uci-reveals-the-broad-lines-of-the-revised-2020-uci-international-road-calendar
So, it's TDF, then after the worlds we get the Giro with La Vuelta wrapping things up.
Can't imagine the Vuelta field will be much good.
To clarify, there is as little doubt in my mind that a complete season missed would potentially terminal for pro cycling, as you have that the world will still be in full lockdown, five months from now.
But yes, hardly in the scheme of things.
For one, if predictions that under a full lockdown, the UK economy would shrink by a third by June is correct. I wonder what state we all would be in by September."Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
Judging by my hair now, not very good....blazing_saddles said:I wonder what state we all would be in by September.
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ugo.santalucia said:
Judging by my hair now, not very good....blazing_saddles said:I wonder what state we all would be in by September.
Me too!
"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0 -
ah the wierdly named Tour De Pologne. The Poles use the word Polski but for some strange reason they went all French with the name of their tour. It's not a bad race and might get a few bigger names if it's a build up raceRichN95. said:Tour of Poland expected in August, so that can be a Tour warm up
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If we do get a Tour it should be a great field. There's going to be a big battle for places in any races that get to take place.0
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Only if the definition of dedication has been changed to be a lot more closely aligned with stupidity... What a plonker Mr Mas is!gsk82 said:
That's dedication from the Danish championWheelspinner said:
Enric Mas of Movistar after a turbo session on his balcony today.
Ouch.
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"Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.0
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Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics in 2021 'very unrealistic unless vaccine is found'0
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Can't they hold a Covid2020 immunity Olympics? Along side the usual medical tomfoolery, would be a more serious antibody test.0
