The big finish of tomorrow's queen stage at Tour de la Provence may be scrapped due to snow, according to the race organisers.
In a brief - and slightly confusing - statement released on social media, the organisers said they would go to the climb tomorrow morning and check if the race could proceed because snow had begun falling.
The statement was slightly confusing, certainly to non-French speakers, as the climb was referred to in the statement as Mont Chauve, which is effectively a nickname for Mont Ventoux.
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"The organisers will go to Mont Ventoux tomorrow in order to maintain or not the third stage of tomorrow, the snow falling heavily on Mont Chauve," they said in a Tweet.
The riders endured very cold temperatures and rain today and now with snow falling on the big finish climb for tomorrow, the race may not finish there at the end of stage 3.
The stage is due to take the riders some 154km from Istres to Mont Ventoux-Chalet Reynard, with a finish up Mont Ventoux but finishing at Chalet Reynard rather than on the top of the climb.
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