Tour de France stage to be shortened due to 'intense heatwave'

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Tour de France organisers, for the first time in the race's history, have decided to shorten a stage due to intense heat, as Belgian sprint king Tim Merlier doubled up in Saturday's flat eighth stage. Just minutes after the 33-year-old Belgian had surged to victory in the 180-kilometre run from Prigueux to Bergerac with a stunning dash for the line, ASO announced that Sunday's ninth stage would be changed because