3) If there aren't easier stages at some point, the riders will just wait out some of the hard ones in anticipation of the hard stages later on. Would cause much more break away wins though.
That being said, I also don't like pan flat stages that have zero obstacles in them. Sprints in...
Just watched the stage.
*** that crash! Hope everyone who made it to the finish can continue.
Good win for Pogi. pretty great ride by Mas to only loose 51 seconds after the crash, Vingegaard with the best possible result for him.
With Lipowitz you can clearly see that he's still very...
2 sprint stages coming up after that, so UAE won't have to do anything and stage 10 I guess they'd control anyway. So overall I don't see how that was worth it.
And the officially most average rider of the Tour is:
Out of the competing riders, who is closest to the average age (28.7), weight (69.4 kg), height (1.81 m)?
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Rider
Age
Weight (kg)
Height (m)
1
ZIMMERMANN Georg
27.7
70
1.81