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Cape Town Cycle Tour drastically shortened─── 08:11 Thu, 05 Mar 2015
Cape Town - The 2015 Cape Town Cycle Tour, formerly known as the Cape Argus, will be drastically shortened this year due to the impact of the massive fires which have crippled the Mother City and surrounds.
Eyewitness News reports that the route will be a 47km circular from its normal start at the Civic Centre to the end of the M3 and back the same way to a slightly altered finish in Green Point.
For the last four days the Southern Peninsula, which the iconic Cape Town Cycle Tour traditionally passes through, has been on fire.
Organisers say the circumstances this week were unprecedented in 38 years of the Cape Town Cycle Tour.
Firefighters have worked day and night battling the flames in sweltering heat as experienced pilots flew choppers to drop buckets of water on the flames.
Event organisers say it has become clear that the safety of cyclists could not be guaranteed on Chapman’s Peak and this ruled out using this famous landmark for the 2015 event.
EWN
