{"id":561970,"date":"2026-07-22T05:23:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561970\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T05:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T05:23:10","slug":"how-europes-extreme-heat-waves-have-impacted-the-tour-de-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/561970\/","title":{"rendered":"How Europe&#8217;s Extreme Heat Waves Have Impacted the Tour de France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">If organizers do not have the flexibility to move start times or cancel stages in extreme heat, Cvijanovic says every potentially risky stage should be scheduled early in the morning, adding there are <a href=\"https:\/\/cds.climate.copernicus.eu\/datasets\/reanalysis-era5-single-levels?tab=overview\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">vast, publicly-available climatological datasets<\/a> that could be used for this purpose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">But beyond stage start times, a warming world is making the Tour\u2019s traditional July calendar slot increasingly untenable. \u201cIf I had the power I would change all the calendar and not race in July and August in hot places,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jul\/12\/tadej-pogacar-tour-de-france-2026-heatwave-calendar-ninth-stage-mathieu-van-der-poel-cycling\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> Poga\u010dar, \u201cbut it\u2019s not something I can do.\u201d Prudhomme <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingweekly.com\/racing\/tour-de-france\/its-not-possible-the-tour-de-france-is-july-race-director-rejects-tadej-pogacars-wish?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dhtwitter&amp;utm_content=null\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dismissed<\/a> the Slovenian\u2019s suggestion because \u201cthe Tour de France is July,\u201d but acknowledged that climate change \u201cis drawing nearer. At some point, it will be inescapable. But is that in two years? 10 years? We don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph-element\" class=\"rich-text mb-6 font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mt-8 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\">Scientists, though, note that <a href=\"https:\/\/wmo.int\/news\/media-centre\/european-state-of-climate-2025-record-heatwaves-from-mediterranean-arctic-while-glaciers-shrink-and\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Europe is warming at more than double the global average rate<\/a>, making extreme events like heat waves and wildfires more likely. People around the world, including those at the Tour de France, are experiencing the impacts of climate change now. \u201cWe need to think as humans,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeradar.com\/news\/tour-de-france-teames-braced-for-heatwave\" title=\"undefined\" target=\"undefined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a> Team Cofidis sport director Bingen Fern\u00e1ndez. \u201cWe are creating this. We\u2019re burning petrol. Climate change is here.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If organizers do not have the flexibility to move start times or cancel stages in extreme heat, Cvijanovic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":561971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[246,7598,61,60,82],"class_list":["post-561970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-extreme-weather","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561970","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=561970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}