Organizers of the Vuelta a España say that despite the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic, this summer's Spanish Grand Tour will go on as usual.

While the spring calendar, including the Giro d'Italia, has been wiped out by Covid 19, the summer and fall races will be monitored over the next few weeks.

In Spain, where the coronavirus has killed over 3,000 people, athletes are currently on lockdown, not allowed to go outside for training. The Vuelta a España is scheduled to start in Utrecht, the Netherlands, on August 14 and finish in Madrid on September 6. [Race director Javier Guigen told Spanish news agency EFE this week, "It's a new situation, but the whole Vuelta team is motivated and is working with the idea that the Vuelta will take place."

"We have to be ready. That is why I am transmitting excitement and motivation in these difficult times, I want to make the 2020 Vuelta the best ever."

With the Giro d'Italia postponed and the Tour de France in jeopardy, there have been a number of recent proposals on how to structure the rest of the cycling season. Once the coronavirus situation improves, many races will move into the fall, with CCC team member Matteo Trentin suggesting a combination of three Grand Tours, one week each in Spain, France, and Italy, and former UCI president Brian Cookson proposed shortening the Grand Tour to two weeks.

However, Guillen rejected these ideas, refusing to be distracted by other races. Nor is he considering a "scaled-down" way of running the Vuelta, as is being considered for the Tour de France.

From sponsors to road closures to police presence, for now it is business as usual.

"I am concerned about everything that is happening, but most of all from a human perspective. It's an exceptional, unprecedented, unprecedented situation," Gillen said.

"From here, I'm trying to follow the necessary established measures and use my job as therapy.

." He is discovering new things, such as videoconferencing technology, and is working on a new ideas committee with motivation and imagination."