The Giro shortens today’s 13th stage even more due to the weather and will have a 75-kilometre route
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He Tour of the 13th stage of the Giro d’Italia that is disputed this friday it will be even shorter than expected already due to “to adverse weather conditions“which will cause reduce practically to 75 kilometers.
“Given the adverse weather conditions, especially on the Italian side, the Commission decided to meet the athletes’ requests by applying the Extreme Weather Protocol. Stage 13 will be shortened and the new kilometer 0 will be established in Le Chableat the foot of the Croix de Couer. The final part of the stage remains unchanged“, confirmed the organizers of the ‘corsa rosa’.
Already last Tuesday, the Giro, due to “the exceptional snowfall and the risk of avalanches”, announced that this stage, ending in Crans Montana, would not go through the Grand-Saint-Bernard hill but through the tunnel, which it would remain as a first-class port, and that the journey would go from 207 to 199 kilometers. Now, the Grand-Saint-Bernard, which was the Coppi summit of the round, will not be climbed and the peloton will have to tackle only the Croix de Coeur and the final climb.
The peloton departed from the planned starting pointbut after the neutralized start, the cyclists stopped, they got on the buses of their respective teams move to Le Chablestarting point of this stage that will begin at 2:30 p.m.
Source: Eitb
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