Video: The biblical conditions that saw Tour Poland called off

Things have been pretty crazy in Poland for a few days now, but the state of roads and relentless rain saw the racing scrapped today. The videos and photos say it all.

 

The Tour of Poland organisers abandoned racing on stage six today, Sunday, after rain fell for so long and so heavily it made conditions unsafe.

The race was hit by a downpour on Saturday's stage 5 when the field split to pieces and 86 of the 186 starters abandoned.

And today when the rain got even heavier - sending mud shifting onto the roads and rivers of water down the course - the start was postponed and the race shortened to 70km, or two laps of the planned circuit.

However, when the action finally got underway the stage was abandoned before the opening lap was even completed.

It means the winner of yesterday's Tim Wellens of Lotto-Soudal kept the yellow jersey he started with today heading into the final 25km TT tomorrow.

Three Irish riders started the race though Stephen Clancy (Novo Nordisk) and Matt Brammeier (Dimension Data) abandoned yesterday.

Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) went on the attack on stage 3 and yesterday and is in 26th place overall.

 

 

This was very rough, to be fair

The roads were in a poor state

 

The riders get out of the deluge

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Surface water was flowing like river

 

The fans waited in hope

 

Visibility down to a minimum

 

When fireman are called in it's dodgy

 

Mud had flowed onto roads

 

 

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