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OlavEH

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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  Looking at the profiles published by La Flamme Rouge, there is a couple of things that strikes me: - Missed opportunities on mountain...
  
  Friday at 8:36 AM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  You mean that those who pays for the stage would not accept only a Sarenne - AdH finish? So if they had only one AdH stage, it would be...
  
  Thursday at 2:13 PM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  If they did this, I would rather have seen something different in stage 19 than a Alpe d'Huez MTF. Something like a good medium mountain...
  
  Thursday at 2:01 PM
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  OlavEH reacted to Devil's Elbow's post in the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours with Like.
  
  A soft MTF is on average the worst kind of breakaway stage. Severely limits both the pool of riders that can win and the length of the...
  
  Thursday at 1:05 PM
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  OlavEH reacted to Devil's Elbow's post in the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours with Like.
  
  So basically: - Easiest Pyrenees in God knows how long. Foix should always have been a mountain stage, now there is only one proper GC...
  
  Thursday at 12:39 PM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  Jeez. So they are not doing the toughest ascent of Peyrol? It's design choices like this and the exclusion of Gaborisse which is just...
  
  Thursday at 12:34 PM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  Gavarnie is a nice, but damned annoying (and very typical of ASO), that the Gaborisse climb is not included.
  
  Thursday at 12:16 PM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  Some good stages. Le Lloran, Le Markstein and second Alpe d'Huez stage are good. Orcieres and first Alpe are awful. At least one of...
  
  Thursday at 12:05 PM
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements.
  
  This one? https://climbfinder.com/en/climbs/cari-faido Can't say that I like the rumours. Again a focus of short and steep MTFs intead...
  
  Wednesday at 7:07 AM
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  OlavEH reacted to greyclouds's post in the thread Uno-X Pro Cycling Team with Like.
  
  Fantastic season and a well deserved promotion to WT, even if facilitated by Lotto/Intermarches merger. Despite issues with some of the...
  
  Oct 19, 2025
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  Okay. I missed that one. But still that didn't create much gaps in the GC. Something like a 150 km stage with Saisies, Aravis...
  
  Oct 18, 2025
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  As far as I can find, there hasn't been a 7 hour mountain stage in the Tour since Andorra 1997. The longest I could find in the 2000s...
  
  Oct 18, 2025
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  He only acknowledge Tour design like in the early 90s or something like that. 100 km+ of ITT and 7 hour mountain stages.
  
  Oct 18, 2025
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  7 hours. Have we seen this to any extent since the 1990s?
  
  Oct 18, 2025
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  OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.
  
  The Tour is better now regarding hilly and medium mountain stages. There should really not be more than something like 5 or 6 stages...
  
  Oct 18, 2025
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