Okay so I casually google that climb, I wasn't ready for this
This can't be right?
Now that's what I call The Full Monte.
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Okay so I casually google that climb, I wasn't ready for this
This can't be right?
If they use the 4km profile I believe Joaquim Rodriguez will sleepwalk out of retirement. He'll wake up the winner of that stage and have no idea what happened.That is pure MADNESS. The very same Flammerouge mentions a southern road though (also with gravel parts), which is slightly less..dreadful.
If they use the 4km profile I believe Joaquim Rodriguez will sleepwalk out of retirement. He'll wake up the winner of that stage and have no idea what happened.
At what point does it become impossible to stay on your bike?
Guardiagrele hits 30% I reckon but it's also a 600m climb.Thought of him too, when I saw your profile. He would've loved that.
Isn't guardiagrele and Machucos like +30% at some sections?
Theoretically should be that one but with Cainero everything could be unless Vegni rejects.Okay same twitter thread had a 6km @ 13% profile from the other side, which seems a feasable level of crazy
That is the kind of *** *** that needs to be a one day MTT or some ***. The craziest mountains will only disbalance GTs, so I'd rather see them in one day races, which I think is a big missed opportunity on the calendar.Theoretically should be that one but with Cainero everything could be unless Vegni rejects.
I think that if that would have been in Friuli he would have tried to put in a MTF there (note that apperently it's paved but with some cobbled parts midway).
IMHO for an one day race would be better something short like Guardigrele, if you want in that area of Abruzzo you can put 30 double digts walls in a 250 kms race with almost no flat between them.That is the kind of brilliant * that needs to be a one day MTT or some *. The craziest mountains will only disbalance GTs, so I'd rather see them in one day races, which I think is a big missed opportunity on the calendar.
If I recall correctly, ASO seriously considered using Finestre at one point. I don't know if Portet was as raceable as Finestre, PdBF and Glières. Judging from the pictures I saw back then, probably not.
You're right though that they could uses longer stretches of sterrato if they wanted to. They chickened out a couple years ago, as well, when the Tro-Bro Léon roads were ditched at the last minute...
Pic du Midi is precisely the climb I wouldn't even put a lot of climbs before.
I'd like Pic Du Midi to be the final of a monster stage.
But only in a tour where there is something like 125+ flat ITT km with a long flat TTT as well or else it would be even more skewed to the climbers than 2020 is
Why even write this?
Then I want a Tour with three stages in the Himalayas and then an ITT back home to France.
Flat Everest basecamp criterium of 60km on a Saturday.Why even write this?
Then I want a Tour with three stages in the Himalayas and then an ITT back home to France.
How does what you wrote that compare to a tour with a traditional amount of TTing?
Flat Everest basecamp criterium of 60km on a Saturday.
That'd be above 5000m. Bernal wins easily.Flat Everest basecamp criterium of 60km on a Saturday.
Everybody keeps talking about balance, yet refuses to acknowledge that the time you can gain in the mountains is infinitely less than decades ago (especially when the Ineos train is not derailed as was the case this year), while the very long ITTs would still generate similar gaps.
125 km ITTs and a very long TTT (are you kidding me?) would just ruin the race.
2007 had nearly that much total ITT, yet it was a climbers tour. Mountain stages were simply stacked with many climbs such that the scales tipped in favor of the climbers. Differences were made as the climbers were actually forced to attack from distance if they wanted a chance
Yes, but I didn't see Castroviejo, Kwiatkowski, Poels, Bernal and Thomas ride in formation in front of Cadel Evans that year.
That said, Rasmussen's exploits were magnificent.
That'd be above 5000m. Bernal wins easily.
Look at what happened to the Argentina football squad in a World Cup qualifier game played at 3600m above sea level. That's 1700m below the altitude of Everest basecamp.Logically speaking, if it's flat, it actually favors heavier riders even more than low flatlands cause power outputs are lower and much larger part of it goes to rolling resistance which should be rougly equal for all riders ergo it becomes a more W game rather than a W/surface area
Running follows W/kg tho, so if they select based on national competition you get that selection automatically.Look at what happened to the Argentina football squad in a World Cup qualifier game played at 3600m above sea level. That's 1700m below the altitude of Everest basecamp.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbG-8L_TcmA