Paris-Nice NEUTRALIZED due to hailstorm during stage 4

Paris-Nice is not called the 'Race to the Sun' by chance. Today during stage 4, the cold temperatures and rainy weather have turned into a hailstorm. The weather conditions were bad enough to temporarily neutralize the first mountain stage of the race.

The weather had already been bad for a while, and reports started coming from the finish line of a hailstorm. This created a worrying situation but it didn't take until this point for the race to be neutralized, as the peloton and breakaway with 45 kilometers to go began to come under the hail falling down. The race was neutralized as a preventive measure, but it will be resumed most certainly in the coming minutes.