The Tour de France riders face another day of racing in 'red zone' extreme heat when they head into the Pyrenees on Thursday. The race and the show that is the Tour de France, however, will go on, with most riders and teams accepting another day of suffering.
Stage 6 starts in Pau, on the hot plains of southwestern France, before climbing the Col du Tourmalet and finishing in the high valley town of Gavarnie-Gèdre close to the border with Spain, where thunderstorms are forecast for the afternoon. Local orange weather alerts are in place across the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France, with warnings that 'dangerous weather events are expected' and calls to be 'be very vigilant.'
