One month before the announcement of the big celebration of world cycling, the organizers of the Tour de France are not really smiling. However, everything is completed, the route is traced and the mayors of the stage cities which will welcome the departures and arrivals of the 113rd large loop of history were put in confidence. Everything should ride and yet everything creates the official announcement of the course, on October 23 at the Paris Sports Palace.
Because a big pebble has just slipped into the cyclist’s shoe of the organizers. The last Tour of Spain, set up by Unipublic, the ASO subsidiary, the organizer of the Tour, turned to disaster. The Vuelta was the target of many demonstrators who used it as a resonance fund to their Propalestinian protests. Sometimes endangering the physical integrity of runners, by jets of urine or bugs and events of demonstration on the course in the middle of the stage.
