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OlavEH replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements.

Piancavallo would be okay as an early MTF, latest at the start of the second week. Not as the last MTF.

Oct 31, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.

I think we need a cycling variant of Godwin's law: As an online cycling discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison...

Oct 30, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.

You beat me to it by a few seconds! Of course. But either way it would be some flat between Romme and Sallanches. The point would be to...

Oct 30, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.

I was thinking something like Cordon - Domancy - Cote des Amerands and the continue from the top of Amerands to Megeve. And preceeded by...

Oct 30, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.

How is that? Too narrow to cross with the caravan?

Oct 30, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Tour de France Tour de France 2026 route rumours.

I wonder when (or if) we'll see the Tougnete side to Meribel finished and a Tougnete-Loze double. Preferably with a finish at the...

Oct 30, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements.

So for now: Bulgaria start Calabria Blockhaus MTF Cervinia MTF Cari MTF Madonna di Campiglio Piani di Pezze MTF via Giau Piancavallo...

Oct 28, 2025
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OlavEH reacted to Devil's Elbow's post in the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements with Like.

Piancavallo is connected to absolutely nothing except to some extent La Crosetta (~12k of flat), which is in Veneto and therefore off...

Oct 28, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements.

I think Daone is too short/easy and MdC too long to make a damn good combo. MdC is a 20 km climb with about 7-8 km false flat after the...

Oct 28, 2025
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OlavEH replied to the thread Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2026 Route: Speculation, Rumours and Announcements.

Blockhaus as an early MTF is very good. Cervinia is really bad if they dont do a couple of climbs in connection with it. Like...

Oct 28, 2025
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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...

Oct 24, 2025
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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...

Oct 23, 2025
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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...

Oct 23, 2025
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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...

Oct 23, 2025
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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...

Oct 23, 2025

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