Tour Director Warns of Hellish Heat in France
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The Tour de France will adapt to the heat wave predicted for the first half of July, but it is impossible for competitors to take to the course earlier due to the high temperatures.
The Tour de France will adapt to the heat wave, declared on Monday 29 June its director, Christian Prudhomme, pointing out the difficulties of changing the timetables of the stages in the short term.
The Tour de France simmers this Saturday, July 4th from Barcelona for three weeks of competition, with 21 stages on the programme until the final finish in Paris, on the Champs-Elysées. But this edition could be disturbed by an unexpected opponent: the heat wave, announced on several days of the Grande Boucle. Faced with these extreme weather conditions, the director of the Tour, Christian Prudhomme, assures that the organisation is ready to ada…
Regular supplies, wider elimination times, shorter stages: the Tour de France, which starts this Saturday, will adapt to the heat wave, said its director, Christian Prudhomme, at the AFP this Monday. Changing the schedules of the short-term stages will however prove difficult.
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