Problem in last years is that cycling changed a lot.
Every year is harder to make some decent time gaps even in really tough mountain stages. Reasons are different e.g. riders like Pantani, Contador etc. are gone and nobody want to take risk and make race selective earlier then 3km to go then technology like radios powermeters reduced differences between cyclist which were better just using better their brain and tactics without their DS(no offence to anyone).
Then last years best climbers are also one of best TTers (Froome, Thomas, Roglic, Pogacar, Dumoulin,...) so why reduce so much TT km when quite pure climbers like Bardet, Quintana, Yates, Lopez,... are not good enough to beat them even in hard and steep climbs.
When we saw last time some classic duel of climber vs TTer, I do not even remember that, maybe remotly Aru vs Contador 2015 but Aru wasn´t particullary better climber then Contador during all 3 weeks, he just used very well his extra strong team and Landa particullary.
Every year is harder to make some decent time gaps even in really tough mountain stages. Reasons are different e.g. riders like Pantani, Contador etc. are gone and nobody want to take risk and make race selective earlier then 3km to go then technology like radios powermeters reduced differences between cyclist which were better just using better their brain and tactics without their DS(no offence to anyone).
Then last years best climbers are also one of best TTers (Froome, Thomas, Roglic, Pogacar, Dumoulin,...) so why reduce so much TT km when quite pure climbers like Bardet, Quintana, Yates, Lopez,... are not good enough to beat them even in hard and steep climbs.
When we saw last time some classic duel of climber vs TTer, I do not even remember that, maybe remotly Aru vs Contador 2015 but Aru wasn´t particullary better climber then Contador during all 3 weeks, he just used very well his extra strong team and Landa particullary.