roundabout said:
Or simply Montserrat and/or the murito at Platja d'Aro as backup GC stages should high mountains get cancelled
http://www.altimetrias.net/aspbk/verPerfilusu.asp?id=520
There are many back up possibilities. I suppose the organisers like the idea of big long climbs, but really in this season 2000m is not reasonnable. Even in late march, mountains remain mountains ! Above 1500/1600 they are taking unnecessary risks.
I mean look at what can happen on the Giro in May ! This is why I get annoyed when posters want some real big high mountains on Paris-Nice (not that the route couldn't be harder, this is a different point), they just don't understand that it isn't reasonable in this season. Even when Aso arrives at Lure (at 1600, on the south side of the mountain), they are takin a risk because it still might snow on the day if the weather is poor (take the weather we had for this year MSR, i am positive that at the same time you had snow from 1200 on at Lure...).
Anyway, end of rant, but organisers are being irresponsible when they bet too much on clement whether. To be exposed to a 1/20 chance outlier of cancellation, fair enough. To expose yourself to a 1/4 or 1/6 chance of cancellation is just daft.
). And Porte looked like he might be sick or something after today's performance. So it comes down to Froome vs Purito.
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