Tour de France: Primož Roglič leaves race, heatwave sees UCI Extreme Weather Protocol invoked Thousands of litres of water to be spread on stage route amid concerns that record surface temperature of 63 degrees Celsius may be broken cycling
Team Jumbo Visma’s Primož Roglič has not started today’s Stage 15 of the race due to the continuing impact of an injury he picked up after crashing during the opening week of the race. Meanwhile organisers of the Tour de France have invoked the UCI’s Extreme Weather Protocol ahead of the 202.5km stage from Rodez to Carcassonne, with temperatures forecast to hit 40 degrees in Occitanie this afternoon.
Besides the Extreme Weather Protocol itself, fire fighters will also be using thousands of litres of water to cool down the roads the race passes along, with predictions that today could see the record surface temperature ever recorded at the race beaten.on Friday: “During a heatwave, such as the one we are expecting of over 38 degrees, the road temperature gets much higher than that, around 60 degrees.
“In certain places, the asphalt is going to start melting, not everywhere of course, but it is going to get much softer. So you can imagine how that might end? “If you do it too late the peloton rides onto wet surfaces. It has to be around 15 minutes before they get there. The Slovenian needed to pop his shoulder back in after the crash, which was apparently caused by a TV motorbike knocking a hay bale out of position, which Roglič then hit.
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