{"id":531137,"date":"2026-03-12T09:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531137\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T09:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:50:08","slug":"paris-nice-queen-stage-could-see-last-minute-changes-caused-by-a-fearsome-weather-forecast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/531137\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris-Nice queen stage could see last-minute changes caused by a fearsome weather forecast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It almost seems like a curse of this ski resort. Auron was already set to host a stage finish in 2024, but the stage had to be completely re-altered due to adverse weather conditions and thus finished on La Madone d&#8217;Utelle. Back then, Aleksandr Vlasov won with a brave attack as the climb was hidden behind a thick fog.<\/p>\n<p>The riders are seemingly braced for a potential alteration on the route. Ahead of the stage 3 team time trial, Juan Ayuso highlighted the importance of the stage, with the context that the weekend\u2019s stages could be hindered by weather conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Also, now we\u2019re seeing that maybe in Nice there\u2019s really bad weather, so we will see what we can and what we can\u2019t race,&#8221; Ayuso told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?si=IRWmhHQLUhjsJVEi&amp;v=uH3pmZYnEss&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CyclingProNet<\/a> ahead of stage 2. &#8220;So I think tomorrow [stage 3] has, I don\u2019t know what percentage, but I think more than 70% of the general classification can be decided tomorrow [stage 3].&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It almost seems like a curse of this ski resort. Auron was already set to host a stage&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,141214,82],"class_list":["post-531137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-paris-nice","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}