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The Tour, scheduled to start on June 27, was
pushed back to Aug. 29 due to the outbreak. Mass gatherings have
been banned in France until September, with the country
recording more than 168,000 coronavirus cases and over 24,000
deaths.
"Would the organisers be able to keep people from coming and
gathering in large crowds? In theory we can put on the race and
it can be broadcast on television," Froome said in an Instagram
chat with former England cricketer Kevin Pietersen.
"You're not going to get the same scenes as you would get going
through these tunnels of just people everywhere and all the rest
of it.
"Maybe that's the version of the race we need to see this year.
I don't know."
Froome, who won the Tour in 2013, 2015, 2016 and 2017 and is one
victory away from equalling the record held by Jacques Anquetil,
Eddy Merckx, Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain, is using the
delay to make up the training time he lost after a crash last
year.
The 34-year-old spent over three weeks in hospital after
breaking his neck, femur, elbow, hip and ribs in a high-speed
crash while training for the Criterium du Dauphine in June.
"Some days I'm doing up to six hours sitting on the stationary
trainer -- big days," Froome said.
"A lot of the training I've been doing has been indoors so it's
almost prepared me for this whole lockdown period, and mentally
I'm able to get through it a bit easier."
(Reporting by Shrivathsa Sridhar in Bengaluru; Editing by Shri
Navaratnam)
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