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Neutralized PN25-13
While watching an inset interview, I started to notice wet snow falling on the riders in the coverage of the race. When the broadcasting team of Christian VandeVelde and Bob Roll came back on air, they notice the weather and started to worry for the riders' safety. They weren't the only ones. With slush building on the road surface, it became too dangerous for the peloton to face the looming descent in just a few kilometers from now. The decision was made to pause the racing and let the peloton ride slowly down the mountain and into warmer temperatures. In the pouring ice, snow, and rain, the commissare went to the front of the peloton and let them know. Naturally, that built in quite a bit of confusion, that took some time to sort. At this point, it was snowing rather heavily on the finishing line at the top of the final climb. I should know that one of the Gendarme crashed his motorcycle on the descent as well as one of the team cars for Decathlon-Ag2r-La Mondiale. Clearly, the neutralization was the correct decision.