Ruby United said:I'm a bit confused. If they do cancel it will they just skip the first Alpe d'Huez and finish on the 2nd or skip the 2nd and finish on the first??????
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Ruby United said:I'm a bit confused. If they do cancel it will they just skip the first Alpe d'Huez and finish on the 2nd or skip the 2nd and finish on the first??????
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sultanofhyd said:Err, there is only one Alpe d'Huez, it is the same either way.
Frank Tuesday said:The first ascent doesn't go to the finish line, so they will use the route from the second ascent, thereby skipping the first.
If it is cancelled.sultanofhyd said:They'll climb the Alpe once and finish at the summit, calling it the first or second ascent is non-sense as there will only be one ascent.
The Hitch said:This is a joke right. They announced Alpe twice 8 months ago. Been shouting about it every week since then. Prudehomme has probably been creaming over it for a decade. They probably in 2011 were already working out exactly what the profile would look like. Its supposed to be the queen stage of the queen tour.
And only now, less than a day before the stage, they realize- oh ****, that descent looks dangerous and it might rain.
If they dont do every metre of that stage, CP should resign by the end of the day.
Ned Boulting @nedboulting
JF Pescheux denies any possibility that tomorrow's stage will be shortened. Has no idea how these rumours started.
The Hitch said:This is a joke right. They announced Alpe twice 8 months ago. Been shouting about it every week since then. Prudehomme has probably been creaming over it for a decade. They probably in 2011 were already working out exactly what the profile would look like. Its supposed to be the queen stage of the queen tour.
And only now, less than a day before the stage, they realize- oh ****, that descent looks dangerous and it might rain.
If they dont do every metre of that stage, CP should resign by the end of the day.