Tour de France 2020: start in Nice on 29/08/2020, end on the Champs-Élysées on 20/09/2020

"The two-month delay in the Tour is the first health measure. Moving from July to September naturally means fewer people, people are at work, children have gone back to school, tourists are no longer there," said Christian Prudhomme, director of the Tour de France to Agence France Presse on 26/08/2020.

Postponed due to the pandemic of Covid-19, on 15/04/2020, the start of the Tour de France 2020 will take place in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes, FRA), on Saturday 29/08/2020. The competition will end as usual on the Champs-Élysées in Paris (Île-de-France, FRA) on Sunday 20/09/2020.

The departure from Nice will take place "almost behind closed-doors" said Bernard Gonzalez, prefect of the Alpes-Maritimes region, on August 27/08/2020, following the red zone classification of the department. It should also concern the "fan park" in Nice, planned from 27 to 30/08/2020, which, with the one around the rest day at Châtelaillon-Plage (Charente-Maritime) from 07 to 09/09/2020, proposes a system of spaces dedicated to tourism and local products and a giant screen to follow the day's stage live. The fan…