🎥 Unibet Rose Rockets capture Mother Nature on camera — but Evenepoel is suffering too

Saturday’s races were pretty much all brought to a halt by the laws of nature. While Spain has been dealing with storms for days, it even snowed in France’s Provence, with temperatures dropping below 0°C.

Stage 2 of the Tour de la Provence did go ahead, but in Murcia riders were literally blown off the road. The organisers still tried everything to make it a race, as the footage shows.

The start was moved first, but when the peloton was almost immediately blown apart after the neutralisation, a definitive cancellation followed anyway. In the Unibet Rose Rockets production covering two stages, it’s crystal clear that was the only correct decision.

That extreme weather isn’t only about wind and rain became clear on Saturday as we scrolled through Instagram posts from Remco Evenepoel and Isaac Del Toro. Both men start on Monday at the UAE Tour, and so they arrived in the desert of the Emirates in good time.

No gale-force winds there — but the temperatures are enormous. Evenepoel’s golden Garmin advised him to stop his session after 46 kilometres of training around midday. In the top right corner you could see why: 38°C (100°F).

“Stop ride,” could be read on Evenepoel’s screen, though we don’t know whether he followed the advice. Del Toro was also spotted training, including on his time trial bike. They’ll have to get used to the blazing sun.