Spectators banned from starts and finishes as Tour de France re-enters coronavirus red zone

After two weeks of relative safety, the French Grand Tour heads back to areas where coronavirus cases are rising

Fans in masks at the Tour de France 2020 (Stuart Franklin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

(Image credit: POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Fans will be banned from the starts and finishes of Tour de France stages as the race heads back into coronavirus red zones.

Since the Grand Départ in Nice, the peloton has avoided areas deemed red zones, places with 50 new coronavirus cases per 100,000 in a seven-day period.

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Jonny was Cycling Weekly's Weekend Editor until 2022.

I like writing offbeat features and eating too much bread when working out on the road at bike races.

Before joining Cycling Weekly I worked at The Tab and I've also written for Vice, Time Out, and worked freelance for The Telegraph (I know, but I needed the money at the time so let me live).

I also worked for ITV Cycling between 2011-2018 on their Tour de France and Vuelta a España coverage. Sometimes I'd be helping the