Tour de France organisers ASO confirmed that six levels will implement prolonged distances on finishes for the UCI’s ‘three-kilometre rule’ this 12 months, starting with two further kilometres added to the flat run-in on Monday’s stage 3 in Turin, Italy, the primary showdown for sprinters throughout three weeks.
A modification to the ‘dash zone’ rule, UCI article 2.6.027, generally known as the ‘3km rule’, was formally launched on the UCI Administration Committee assembly in Aigle, Switzerland, in early June to handle rider security at highway races.
This rule change was one among 4 measures beneficial by the SafeR challenge, an impartial group chargeable for analysing dangers and offering security recommendation pertaining to UCI WorldTour, Girls’s WorldTour and ProSeries races.
Throughout this 12 months’s Tour de France, June 29-July 21, an extension of the dash zone can be examined at three levels set at 4 kilometres and three levels set at 5 kilometres. The 3km rule stays in place for eight complete levels, together with the 2 opening days.
“Suggestions has proven that almost all of riders wished the 3km rule prolonged to scale back stress throughout hectic race finales,” Hansen mentioned in June.
The unique ‘3km rule’ was applied in 2005, which applies when a rider can’t attain the end line in that part attributable to a “duly famous incident”, outlined as a fall, mechanical downside or puncture. Earlier to 2005, the umbrella distance to negate a lot of these incidents was only one kilometre.
“Within the occasion of an incident duly famous within the final three kilometers of a straight stage, the rider(s) involved is (are) credited with the time of the rider(s) within the firm of the or the place they had been on the time of the incident. His (or their) classification can be that of crossing the end line. There are extensions to 4 km (levels 5, 6 and 10), and to five km (levels 3, 12 and 13),” learn the amended guideline introduced Friday on the Tour de France briefing for staff directeurs.
“Runners affected by an incident should instantly make themselves recognized to a marshal by elevating their arm and reporting to a marshal as quickly as they cross the end line.”
The brand new measure doesn’t apply to the 2 particular person time trials or the 5 mountain-top finishes, that are clustered throughout the second and third weeks of the Tour.
“I’m extraordinarily blissful that @LeTour and @UCI_cycling permits the testing of the extension of the 3km rule to try to create a diminished bunch coming in for the dash finishes. Good work from SafeR!! One step at a time. We’ll get there,” was the response of CPA President Adam Hansen to twitter.com, who was in attendance on the DS briefing.
The primary enhance in distance that applies on the finish of a stage can be on the third day of racing headed to Turin, the place the ultimate 5 kilometres can be set as a security internet. Monday, the ultimate of three levels in Italy, covers 230.5km throughout the Po Valley and is the longest stage of the race. After two days with 5,650 metres of elevation acquire, the dash groups are anticipated to have a area day on the flat end into the capital of Piedmont.
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Tour de France 2024 dash zones
Phases with 3-kilometre rule
- Stage 1 – Florence to Rimini
- Stage 2 – Cesenatico to Bologna
- Stage 4 – Pinerolo to Valloire
- Stage 8 – Semur-en-Auxois to Colombey-les-Deux-Églises
- Stage 9 – Troyes to Troyes
- Stage 11 – Évaux-les-Bains to Le Lioran
- Stage 16 – Gruissan to Nîmes
- Stage 18 – Hole to Barcelonnette
Phases with 4-kilometre rule
- Stage 5 – Saint-Jean-De-Maurienne to Saint-Vulbas
- Stage 6 – Mâcon to Dijon
- Stage 10 – Orléans to Saint-Amand-Montrond
Phases with 5-kilometre rule
- Stage 3 – Plaicanse to Turin
- Stage 12 – Aurillac to Villeneuve-Sur-Lot
- Stage 13 – Agen to Pau
