{"id":646082,"date":"2026-06-18T21:55:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646082\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T21:55:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T21:55:15","slug":"stage-2-of-tour-of-slovenia-neutralised-for-nearly-30-minutes-due-to-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/646082\/","title":{"rendered":"Stage 2 of Tour of Slovenia neutralised for nearly 30 minutes due to crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage 2 of the Tour of Slovenia has been neutralised around 27 kilometres from the finish after the race doctor had to remain attending multiple victims of a previous downhill crash.<\/p>\n

Stage 2’s largely flat stage was moving into its final, decisive phase with a series of small, technical ascents and descents including the Cat. 4 climb of Jeruzalem when the race director first indicated to riders to slow down. Then after a couple of kilometres the race was stopped completely.<\/p>\n

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The crash on a sweeping downhill left-hand bend shortly before the neutralisation involved around five, as yet unidentified, riders, with the race doctor stopping to check on their condition.<\/p>\n

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At the time, the main peloton was heading the race on the 181.8-kilometre stage from Radlje ob Dravi to Ormo\u017e , shortly after a five-rider early break had been reeled in.<\/p>\n

Before it stopped the race director called race leader and stage 1 winner Laurence Pithie (Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe)<\/a> forward to explain that they had to stop the stage for safety reasons.<\/p>\n

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Riders first slowed then halted completely in the middle of a deeply rural area, taking on drinks and refuelling as they waited in warm sunshine.<\/p>\n

After 15 minutes’ wait, it was stilll unclear how quickly the race would begin again. Commissaires spent time going through the peloton and attempting to ensure those who were in a second group when the race was suspended, would then wait for the same amount of time as before the neutralisation once it got underway again.<\/p>\n

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After around 25 minutes, with staff returning to the stage, the race got underway again for the last 27 kilometres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 2 of the Tour of Slovenia has been neutralised around 27 kilometres from the finish after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":646083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-646082","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\/646082","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=646082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/646083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}