{"id":475139,"date":"2026-03-14T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475139\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T11:35:08","slug":"paris-nice-cycling-race-summit-finish-moved-because-of-mountain-snow-as-vingegaard-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/475139\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris-Nice: Cycling race summit finish moved because of mountain snow as Vingegaard leads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The latest forecasts make an arrival in the Auron resort unfeasible, with the rain-snow line estimated to be around 1,100 metres altitude,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ParisNice\/status\/2032530833823904190?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2032530833823904190%7Ctwgr%5E46b880f3ea29fc180becdd1304a5bb84d0f43035%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cyclingnews.com%2Fpro-cycling%2Fracing%2Fparis-nice-queen-stage-7-shortened-heavy-snowfall-and-inconceivable-conditions-force-organisers-to-cut-decisive-mountaintop-finale-in-auron%2F\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow\">said race organisers on Friday evening., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The conditions do not allow the finish to be moved to another mountain top.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Denmark&#8217;s two-time Tour de France winner Jonas Vingegaard holds a comfortable lead of three minutes and 22 seconds in the general classification after winning the fourth and fifth stages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 29-year-old Visma Lease a Bike racer,  who is aiming to win the stage race for the first time, said after coming through Friday&#8217;s stage: &#8220;I have my winter pants, so I wouldn&#8217;t say I hope we go to the finish [on Saturday], that wouldn&#8217;t be nice even with my winter pants.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;The latest forecasts make an arrival in the Auron resort unfeasible, with the rain-snow line estimated to be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-475139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}