Tour feels the heat

By Samantha Lane
Updated January 3 2013 - 5:13pm, first published 4:22pm
The Jayco Herald Sun Tour.
The Jayco Herald Sun Tour.

IN TIMES gone by elite road cyclists used cabbage leaves to cool themselves when racing in extreme heat. Though the strategy’s unlikely to be employed in the 60th edition of a stage race around Victoria on Friday, a weather forecast exceeding 40 degrees has moved organisers to start a 108-strong peloton on a 148-kilometre journey two hours earlier than originally scheduled.

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