PARIS (Reuters) – The Paris-Roubaix one-day cycling race will not take place on April 11 as planned due to the COVID-19 situation, Le Parisien paper reported on its website on Wednesday.
The 2020 edition of the ‘Queen of the Classics’ race was also postponed once before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
Organisers declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.
Paris-Roubaix is the third ‘Monument’ classic of the season after Milan-Sanremo, which has already taken place, the Tour of Flanders, and before Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Giro di Lombardia.
The Tour of Flanders in Belgium is due to take place on Sunday, April 3 as planned.
(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta, editing by GV De Clercq and Pritha Sarkar)
