“It will take an accident to wonder”: should we maintain the Tour de France in July with global warming?

“As soon as it’s hot, you wonder if you have to go to work. What do we want? That the Tour no longer takes place in July? The declaration is signed Pascal Chanteur, former member of the peloton and representative of the riders’ union on the Grande Boucle, during an interview with Parisien-Aujourd’hui en France. The Tour de France had covered the day before, Sunday July 17, more than 200 km under an intense heat wave between Rodez and Carcassonne, where we recorded 38 ° C in the shade at the finish. And even if the question of the ex-cyclist is intended to be provocative, global warming leads it to become relevant.