The penultimate Challenge Mallorca one-day race, Trofeo Andratx-Pollença was stopped and cancelled after simply 25km of racing on account of harmful circumstances on Saturday.
Rain in and across the Serra de Tramuntana mountain vary that performs host to the mountainous days all through the sequence of 5 one-day races meant the roads had been slippery and prompted a number of riders to return down within the first hour of racing.
There was on account of be 151.1km of racing, with the important thing climb of the Coll de Puig Main (14.2 km at 6%) set to be the spotlight, however updates from a number of groups confirmed, together with Arkea-B&B Accommodations, that “the circumstances had been now not proper to permit the peloton to progress safely.”
As well as, The Illes Balears-Arabay crew additionally confirmed that the occasion was “cancelled and suspended on account of climate circumstances and crashes within the first few kilometres.”
Burgos Burpellet BH confirmed on their social media channels that the occasion was suspended “as a result of quite a few falls that occurred within the first kilometres.”
When officers cancelled the occasion at 125km to go, there was a breakaway of three riders that included Daniel Cavia (Burgos BH), Amund Grøndahl Jansen (Uno-X Mobility) and Manuele Tarozzi (VF Group-Bardiani CSF-Faizanè).
After the riders stopped racing, Cavia took to social media saying, “Right now appeared like a very good day, the breakaway was shifting ahead however as a result of circumstances of the terrain, the peloton determined to cease, which compelled the race to be suspended. It is a disgrace, however we won’t struggle towards this. Tomorrow is a brand new alternative in Palma.”
The final day of the Problem Mallorca is because of come on Sunday on the 149.9km Trofeo Palma.
