With the Tour de France set to run from August 29 to September 20, the International Cycling Union (UCI) has confirmed that other races, including the road world championships in Switzerland, the Giro d'Italia, and the Vuelta a España, will follow the Grand Boucle.

The UCI is also working on a redesign of the Women's WorldTour race calendar and said it hopes to confirm a new version of the entire UCI International Calendar (men's and women's races across all cycling disciplines) on May 15 at the latest.

The UCI noted that the calendar "will nevertheless continue to be influenced by the global health situation."

The UCI held a conference call Wednesday morning involving race organizers (leaders of the AIOCC, ASO, RCS, Unipublic, and Flanders Classics), teams (AIGCP), and athletes (CPA).The UCI unanimously decided to protect the race season by rewriting the race calendar to The UCI also announced that it has extended the race suspension on the UCI International Road Calendar for another month, until July 1.

Holding the Tour de France in the best possible conditions "is deemed essential for its central position in the cycling economy and its exposure, especially for the teams that benefit from the unparalleled visibility of this occasion," the UCI said in a statement.

The UCI acknowledged that the Tour de France will coincide with the opening day of the Road World Championships, but confirmed that the previously announced race schedule will be maintained, with the elite men's time trial scheduled for September 20 (Sunday), hours before the Tour de France finishes on the Champs-Elysees in Paris. It is scheduled for Sunday.

The solution to allowing the likes of Tom Dumoulin, Promoglu Roglic, Geraint Thomas, and Rohan Dennis to compete in both events is to change the recently created team relay from Wednesday to Saturday, giving the big-name time trialists a few days to recover after the Tour de France. to give the big time trialists a few days to recover after the Tour de France.

According to the UCI, the Giro d'Italia will be held after the World Championships, followed later in the fall by the Vuelta a España. The Giro d'Italia dates are reported in Italy as October 3-25, but the Vuelta could overlap with the Italian Grand Tour by a week or be held in late November.

The UCI has announced that all of its biggest one-day classics will be held this season, but the dates for Milan-San Remo, Tour de Flanders, Paris-Roubaix, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, and Il Lombardia have not yet been confirmed.

"The UCI International Calendar, and in particular the UCI World Tour, reschedules as many events as possible later in the season. This means that some races may be sacrificed in favor of Grand Tours and Monuments, but it also confirms that a very large race season and classic campaign is planned for the fall.

National road race championships, traditionally held the weekend before the start of the Tour de France, will be held on the weekend of August 22-23.

The UCI also announced that an agreement has been reached between the AIGCP Team Association and the CPA Athletes' Association on a framework that will allow teams in serious financial difficulty to take steps to survive while maintaining the rights of their riders and staff.

"I would like to pay tribute to the cooperation and dedication of the organizers, teams, and riders' representatives during this difficult time. While we still have some final work to do to completely revise the UCI international calendar for 2020 in light of the coronavirus pandemic that has shaken the world, today a first very important step has been taken," said UCI President David Lapalitente.

"Likewise, we have established a framework that will ensure that the fundamental rights of the team riders and staff are protected, while at the same time allowing these teams to take the necessary steps for their survival. Together, we will overcome this crisis and rebuild the cycling community after Covid 19."