It’s a very sad day for cycling, in the region and beyond. After 40 editions of the race, the organizers of the Tour de Normandie are shutting down, due to lack of human and financial resources, lack of investment on the part of certain local authorities.
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“The Tour de Normandie Cycliste is 7 days of racing but it is above all 10 months of work: canvassing, meetings, reconnaissance, team contacts… Added to this is the cumbersome administrative regulations which are always necessary. more to the team. The team has studied everything, without success! It is therefore with pride that the Organizing Committee closes the great and beautiful book of the Tour de Normandie. The 40th edition will have been the last and we, volunteers , are proud to end on this beautiful note. Thank you!” write, in a press release, the organizers.
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Pierrick Guesné, the boss of the Boucles de la Mayenne, the big neighboring event, said on Monday that he was saddened by the disappearance of “this beautiful test”. And to add on twitter: “we are faced with such heaviness and constraints that it becomes difficult to bring our events to life”.
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