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Montmartre via Rue Lepic
This will look fantastic.
In his epic short film C’était un rendez-vous director Claude Lelouch used Rue Caulaincourt to get to Sacré-Cœur. He drove a Mercedes-Benz 450 SEL 6.9 with some 290hp through the quiet Sunday morning of Paris in 1976. He violated every speed...
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It's going to be a very cold week. Temperatures are around 10 degrees colder than normal at this time of the year. And it will rain...
I really don't get this from ASO. You could design the first stage of Dauphiné in a way, that they wouldn't clash timewise. With a prologue or a stage that finishes around 14:30. I mean honestly, nobody cares about the Dauphiné's first stage.
Until 2001 the Giro finished at the end of the...
There are no profiles yet. But from the stage towns, it's possible to make guesses. Finestre stage will be Unipuerto.
Stage 5 from Les Karellis to Condove is having Mont-Cenis in the middle of the stage. So not really a mountain stage, because from Cenis it's 1.900m downhill on 60k.
Stage 4...
This +Ullrich in Saint-Etienne pushing 495 watts for 29 minutes on Croix de Chaubouret.
And I would also add Cancellara in 2009 worlds, where he caught three riders, while riding like he was on rails. Which I would also use to describe the effort of Jonas. He prepared this itt to perfection...
2003 was good, too. 15 rider strong group going on first Mur with 130k to go. They never came back and Astarloa attacked with Osa at 10 to go. And then they battled mano a mano. That was great to watch.
Julian Alaphilippe suffered a fractured knee in a crash at the Strade Bianche: "I didn't want to say it because I didn't want people to think I was making excuses". The Frenchman regrets having competed in the Flandriennes in these conditions.
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As always a great look on all the sectors from a local, who checked them today. :)
At sector 8b he differs a lot from ASO.