Excess heat and wildfires are affecting the Tour de France cycle race. The third stage of the race on July 7 will go near an area where wildfires have broken out in France's southwest. Local authorities and race organisers as a result have asked people not to go to the race route to cheer riders on.
Supporters stopped from attending Tour de France as wildfires ravage South of France
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Sat 13:09 - La Libre (BE)
115 hectares of forest burned: firefighters try to limit the spread of the fire in Drôme
Sun 06:09 - Le Monde
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Sun 07:38 - Le Figaro
Pyrénées-Orientales: a new fire has already burned nearly 1000 hectares, 500 firefighters mobilized
Sun 09:38 - Le Figaro
Drôme: nearly 300 hectares of forest burned in three days in an uninhabited area
Sun 14:57 - SRF International
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Sun 15:40 - Le Figaro
Gard: a fire covers 350 hectares, the A9 partially closed
Sun 16:36 - Le Figaro
Fire in the Pyrénées-Orientales: the stage of the Tour de France scheduled for Monday will be “adapted” and “without an audience”
Mon 04:51 - Le Figaro
LIVE - Fires, heatwave: a “gigantic fire” covered 4,600 hectares in the Pyrénées-Orientales, the third stage of the Tour de France disrupted
Mon 10:02 - France 24
Supporters stopped from attending Tour de France as wildfires ravage South of France