{"id":12840,"date":"2018-01-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/tdu-director-makes-an-announcement-about-today-s-stage\/"},"modified":"2018-01-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-17T00:00:00","slug":"tdu-director-makes-an-announcement-about-today-s-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/tdu-director-makes-an-announcement-about-today-s-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"TDU Director Makes An Announcement About Today\u2019s Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The Tour Down Under\u2019s stage three from Glenelg to Victor Harbor has been shortened due to extreme heat.<\/h3>\n<p>The stage will be cut by 26kms as Thursday is forecast to reach 41C.<\/p>\n<p>Race director Mike Turtur said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><h3>\u201cThe safety and welfare of the riders, spectators and everyone involved with the race is always our primary concern.<\/h3>\n<h3>\u201cWe consulted with rider representative Adam Hansen and with our Chief Commissaire, and both agreed it would be sensible to shorten the stage distance.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BUPAFamilyRide?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BUPAFamilyRide<\/a> has been cancelled &amp; tomorrow\u2019s Stage 3 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tourdownunder?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@tourdownunder<\/a> heat (&amp; it will be) also shortened by 26km <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIVEAANews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FIVEAANews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9vKTc2hKAq\">pic.twitter.com\/9vKTc2hKAq<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Matthew Pantelis  (@MatthewPantelis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewPantelis\/status\/953533558823374848?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 17, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>&#13;\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tour Down Under\u2019s stage three from Glenelg to Victor Harbor has been shortened due to extreme heat. The stage will be cut by 26kms as Thursday is forecast to reach 41C. Race director Mike Turtur said: \u201cThe safety and welfare of the riders, spectators and everyone involved with the race is always our primary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-12840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TDU Director Makes An Announcement About Today\u2019s Stage - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/sport\/tdu-director-makes-an-announcement-about-today-s-stage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"TDU Director Makes An Announcement About Today\u2019s Stage\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Tour Down Under\u2019s stage three from Glenelg to Victor Harbor has been shortened due to extreme heat. 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