Tour de France's organisers on Saturday announced that they will shorten a stage of the race due to intense heat. ASO made this historic decision to cut out a hilly loop at the start of the stageafter France's weather authority declared a red alert in Corrèze.
Tour de France organisers, for the first time in the race's history, have decided to shorten a stage due to intense heat, as Belgian sprint king Tim Merlier doubled up in Saturday's flat eighth stage.
