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TDU Stage 1 under threat from bushfires

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Nix | 10 years ago
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Women's race on same course is going ahead today.

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Nix | 10 years ago
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I spoke to my accommodation in Barossa Valley today, they were confident Stage 1 would go ahead - said fire was a fair way away although it is expected to keep burning for a while yet.

Women's road race is scheduled for Monday arvo on same course. I spoke to organisers at TDU Prelude. They said they will decide 7am Monday morning whether to proceed with women's race based on latest fire advice. There is a bit of politics here - local fire authority has declared it "watch and act" - so TDU can't come out and say well we're going ahead anyway.

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dave atkinson | 10 years ago
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TDU race director Mike Turtur said organizers would decide Monday evening at 5 p.m. local time after conferring with public safety officials.

so that's monday morning in the UK

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Stumps | 10 years ago
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As for team selection, when will it be made official no stage 1 ?

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dave atkinson replied to Stumps | 10 years ago
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stumps wrote:

As for team selection, when will it be made official no stage 1 ?

don't know, sounds like they're going to make the call fairly late

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ray silvester | 10 years ago
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Hopefully we wont have carnage brought upon us by the elements and other sinister forces this season.....remember the Arctic Milan San Remo/Giro plus Orica's best efforts to wipe out stage 1 of the Giro with their bridge breaking bus....and i think it was bike thefts at the Tour Med.

Still....it made things weirdly fascinating!!

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Al__S replied to ray silvester | 10 years ago
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ray silvester wrote:

Hopefully we wont have carnage brought upon us by the elements and other sinister forces this season.....remember the Arctic Milan San Remo/Giro plus Orica's best efforts to wipe out stage 1 of the Giro with their bridge breaking bus....and i think it was bike thefts at the Tour Med.

Still....it made things weirdly fascinating!!

Your memory is misfiring- the Orica bus hitting the finish banner was at the Tour de France.

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ray silvester replied to Al__S | 10 years ago
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Al__S wrote:
ray silvester wrote:

Hopefully we wont have carnage brought upon us by the elements and other sinister forces this season.....remember the Arctic Milan San Remo/Giro plus Orica's best efforts to wipe out stage 1 of the Giro with their bridge breaking bus....and i think it was bike thefts at the Tour Med.

Still....it made things weirdly fascinating!!

Your memory is misfiring- the Orica bus hitting the finish banner was at the Tour de France.

So it was....somehow I always think of Corsica as Italian  40

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JAndrewHill replied to ray silvester | 10 years ago
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Sometimes, corsica was in italy.
This year, apparently, Belfast is in Italy? They must have opened a Bella Italia on the Falls road.

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dave atkinson | 10 years ago
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yes, saw that. not great news, but it is what it is...

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