{"id":547903,"date":"2026-07-13T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547903\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T18:59:10","slug":"irish-club-cancels-open-race-over-extreme-heat-as-ireland-sizzles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/547903\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish club cancels open race over extreme heat as Ireland sizzles"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In what is believed to be a first for Irish cycling, an open race was cancelled at the weekend due to the extreme temperatures (Photo: AlinaMD)<\/p>\n

Irish cyclists are accustomed to early season races being cancelled due to snow or frost. And storms have also forced the cancelation or postponement of races in recent years.<\/p>\n

But this past weekend appeared to be a first for the sport here when a road TT was cancelled due to the extreme heat, something we are not aware of ever happening before.<\/p>\n

Blarney Cycling Club was set to promote the Cork County Time Trial Championships and National Paracycling Series TT.<\/p>\n

However, it decided to cancel the 22km event due to the very high temperatures forecast, with 29\u00b0C reached on the day.<\/p>\n

Cycling Ireland advised the club the extreme heat could put some of the para riders under additional stress, and so a decision was taken to cancel.<\/p>\n

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The open TT – the Cork championship – had poor numbers entered at that point. And a decision was taken to postpone that race until the same date the para TT is rescheduled to.<\/p>\n

“Due to the forecast heatwave this Saturday, we\u2019ve made the decision to cancel our TT event,” the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“With temperatures expected to be exceptionally high, there are concerns not only for everyone\u2019s safety and wellbeing but also about how the heat could affect road conditions.<\/p>\n

“While we\u2019re disappointed not to be riding, the safety of all participants, volunteers, and spectators has to come first.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for your understanding, and we hope to see you all at our next event. Stay safe, stay cool, and take care in the heat.”<\/p>\n

The club added refunds to those who had already signed up would be issued as soon as possible and that every rider would be contacted directly by the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what is believed to be a first for Irish cycling, an open race was cancelled at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":547904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-547903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}