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Saturday’s 20th stage of the Tour de France will be cut short from 130km to 59km and will skip two significant climbs because of landslides, organisers said on Friday evening.
A hailstorm and a landslide forced the race jury and organisers to stop the 19th stage with the extreme weather conditions having damaged other roads. The peloton will now go straight from Albertville to the final 33km ascent to Val Thorens and the riders will not have to tackle the category two Côte de Longefoy or the category one Cormet de Roselend, a 19.9km ascent at 6%.
Written by Jeremy Whittle in Tignes
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/26/landslides-tour-de-france-cut-stage-short under the title “Landslides force Tour de France organisers to cut 20th stage short”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
