Updated:14/08/2021 01:10h
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Cycling has long been modernized and adapted its particular conditions to the weather. The regulations say that if the temperature drops to two or three degrees and there is rain or excessive humidity, the race can be canceled. If it is a dry cold, more manageable, you can continue. The same happens if the heat is excessive. If it exceeds 45 or 48 degrees, and circumstances occur that may endanger the athlete’s health, a test can also be stopped. Within the peloton there are a series of delegate runners who are the ones who would determine if a dangerous situation occurs.
I have never played soccer and I don’t know how extreme heat affects players. Logically, in a closed stadium less air flows and that hurts the footballers. But on the other hand, our physical effort is greater. A ninety minute game has nothing to do with a five or six hour stage.
Since it is a reason that affects the majority of athletes, the ideal could be to make a global law that includes all sports specialties, and that specifies that at certain temperatures, the sport stops being healthy, it becomes a focus of risk and that therefore the requirements are established so that a race or a match is suspended, postponed or annulled. It does not seem the most appropriate for each sport to follow a regulation, I understand that the best would be a general rule, the same for everyone.
When the heat strikes and you are caught out of shape or in poor condition, the suffering is extreme. It has happened to me. I remember a stage of the Vuelta, in 2013 if memory serves me right, near the Ubrique area, that the heat was so suffocating that not even pouring one can of water after another over my head would get me to lower my temperature or less relieve me. It was one of those days when the only thing on your mind is to get off your bike and end the agony. In the end, you continue because they are your dreams and your profession.
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