{"id":207585,"date":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207585\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T23:28:11","slug":"stage-3-of-the-tour-of-holland-called-off-after-vehicles-drive-onto-the-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/207585\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 3 of the Tour of Holland called off after vehicles drive onto the course"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A lack of police resources for road closures continues to impact bike racing in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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Stage 3 of the revived Tour of Holland was called off on Friday after non-race vehicles entered the course, including a frightening near-head on collision, leading to the refusal of the peloton to continue on. Organizers then cancelled the stage.<\/p>\n

The incident makes the UCI 2.1-rated event just the latest in a series of bike races impacted by an increasingly acute lack of police support in the Netherlands. Organizers turned to volunteer course marshals for a lengthy stretch this season during which police resources were diverted to train for and then work security at a NATO summit in June.<\/p>\n

But the issues run much deeper than the NATO summit, and four months later, the Tour of Holland has been run with little police presence as well.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the deficiencies of that approach were laid bare. As XDS-Astana’s Cees Bol told Wielerflits<\/a>, at one point, a person drove a pick-up truck towards the pack. “It was a close call at the front of the peloton,” Bol said of what was only one of multiple incidents.<\/p>\n

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