Strade Bianche on August 1 could be first race on post-COVID-19 calendar

Lotto Soudal’s Tim Wellens leads Astana’s Jakob Fuglsang and CCC Team’s Greg Van Avermaet at the 2019 Strade Bianche
Lotto Soudal’s Tim Wellens leads Astana’s Jakob Fuglsang and CCC Team’s Greg Van Avermaet at the 2019 Strade Bianche (Image credit: Getty Images Sport)

Belgian public-service broadcaster RTBF has published a provisional men's calendar for the post-COVID-19 men's professional cycling season – starting with Strade Bianche on August 1 – which it says the UCI has sent out to teams.

Despite the worldwide coronavirus crisis continuing and the risk of a second peak of cases in a few months time, professional cycling hopes to return in the late summer and autumn and teams and organisers are ready to race until late November. 

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