Poor road conditions force organisers to remove 35km of dirt sectors from stage 5 route
Organisers of the Tour of Alberta announced on Tuesday at the pre-race press conference that they have removed more than a third of the dirt roads that had been newly added to the stage 5 parcours for this year’s race.
The 206km stage from Edson to Spruce Grove was originally designed to be the longest stage ever hosted at the Tour of Alberta. It was also going to include 56km of dirt roads, routed over six sectors. As of Monday, organisers had to make a few “last-minute changes due to road conditions and things beyond our control,” said event Technical Director Jeff Corbett.
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“I’m not going to say that there will be tears shed by the gentlemen in the front row here, that I have had to remove over 35km of those dirt roads. They were not in the condition that we needed them to be in for racing, so we’ve had to do some last-minute quick adjustments."
There will now only be 18.5km of dirt roads, keeping the first and the final three dirt sectors. Dirt sectors two and three have been removed and will be replaced with paved roads along Highway 16.
“We’ve taken out dirt and have given you a big, giant highway but it still should be flat and fast,” Corbett said.
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