After spending three days in Nice and the surrounding hinterlands, the Tour de France continues its journey across the different plateaus of the hexagon. With undeniable television success, this event remains, for now, a true success.
This success is largely due to the various agents involved in the implementation of all the elements necessary for the smooth running of the world’s most-followed cycling event.
Thank you everyone! Without the mobilization, involvement, and admirable commitment of the agents from @VilledeNice and the @MetropoleNCA, we would never have been able to take on the challenge of organizing this grand departure of @LeTour under such exceptional circumstances. #Nice06 #tdf2020 pic.twitter.com/J4PjfpX7py
— Christian Estrosi (@cestrosi) September 3, 2020
No less than 1,000 people contributed over a year at various levels, from setting up security protocols, to installing various infrastructures, to collaborating with members of ASO (the event organizer), to the running of the event.
“We wanted this start. In 2018, Christian Prudhomme (director of the Tour de France) told me, it’s set for you in 2020. Moreover, in the year of our 160th anniversary of joining France, the Tour was starting from Nice. Wonderful,” rejoiced the Mayor, who reminded that all of this almost never came to be a few months earlier. “We were in the phase where we still had to deal with this unprecedented health crisis. I kept communication going. Christian Prudhomme told me, let’s watch the evolution of the health situation. With the International Cycling Union, if things calm down, we are ready to consider things differently and for the first time in history, not race in the summer but maybe later.”
This decision is currently paying off since record audiences (between 3.2 and 4.35 million viewers in France not counting broadcasts worldwide) have provided significant visibility to the city of Nice over the three days of competition. “If I made this decision, it was because I knew you were there! I knew I had men and women who had worked a lot. I wanted to express my gratitude to all of you.”
