Stage 2 of the Tour F\u00e9minin de l’Ardeche in southwest France was cancelled before the start due to the risk of the ‘Bloquons tout-Block Everything’ protests underway across France on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a<\/a> has been hit by pro-Palestine protests on a daily basis, with riders voting to neutralise<\/a> stage 17 if there are protests today.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The ‘Block Everything’ protest is only in France, as people protest against government policies and expected spending cuts and the ongoing uncertainty in French politics.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n The Tour de l’Ard\u00e8che was approved to go ahead without police motorbike escorts, but then the stage was cancelled after new concerns about local ‘Block Everything’ protests.<\/p>\n “The stage was cancelled at the last minute,” race organiser Louis Jeannin told L’Equipe<\/a> and other French media.<\/p>\n “We had authorisation from the prefecture at 10 a.m. to start, and we were supposed to have a new update at 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n “Unfortunately, the protests have spread to Romans and the north of the department, where the stage was passing, so the decision was made to cancel.”<\/p>\n Lotte Kopecky<\/a> (SD Worx-Protime) won the opening stage of the Tour Cycliste F\u00e9minin International de l’Ard\u00e8che<\/a> on Tuesday, as she raced on the road for a final time this season. She out-sprinted Eleonora Ciabocco (Picnic-PostNL). Kopeck’s teammate Mischa Bredewold was third.<\/p>\n Kopecky signed on in the leader’s pink jersey before the stage was cancelled.<\/p>\n When the cancellation was confirmed, the Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto team joked about heading to a patisserie, before saying they would “use the afternoon to train, reset and be ready for the next stage”.<\/p>\n Thursday’s 119km third stage is scheduled to take place from Avignon to Pernes-les-Fontaines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 2 of the Tour F\u00e9minin de l’Ardeche in southwest France was cancelled before the start due to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":["post-133812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}