On extremely hot days with sweat clinging to your skin, merely existing can feel like an endurance sport. And yet, as large parts of Southern Europe endure temperatures above 38 degrees, the roughly 165 remaining cyclists in this year’s Tour de France must do more than survive: they have to dominate in a sport where winning often means covering 100-plus mountainous miles in as little as four hours.
To have any hope of winning – without succumbing to heat exhaustion – many of them turn to wearable ice.
