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75th Tour de Romandie (2.UWT) // 27th of April - 2nd of May 2021

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Battle of the babes



A prologue and a 16k ITT to wrap things up. In between there might be some bumps.

No Roglic, no Pogacar, but a shitload of huge under 23 (mostly GC) talents at the start. Champoussin, Vansevenant, Van Wilder, Arensman, Brenner, Kooij, Tiberi, Skjelmose Jensen, Van Gils, Leemreize, Stewart, Romo, Bissegger, Hänninen...

Other notable contenders: Thomas, Kelderman, Sagan, Kuss, Porte, MAL, Woods, Gaviria, Küng, Kämna, Hirschi, Kruijswijk, Gilbert, Costa...



PROFILES
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Climbs

Stage 1
La Rasse (first 2.7k only)
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Produit (4x)
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Chamoson (4x)
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Stage 2
Prêles
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Chaumont (middle section between the junctions at 5.2k and 1.7k only)
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Les Bugnenets
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Mont-Crosin
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Boinod (first 5.5k only)
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Les Pontins
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La Vue-des-Alpes (final 8k only)
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Stage 3
Surpierre
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Châbles (3x)
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Les Granges (3x)
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Stage 4
Chamoson (first 2.2k only)
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Anzère
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Lens
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Suen
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Stage 5
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I love La FlammeRouge for their route maker but they need to fix their method of calculating climbs. It's always messed up.
It's because Google elevation data isn't that good. In this case, the start of the climb is on a bridge that's, say, 20 meters above a gorge, but Google will give the elevation of the gorge instead of the elevation of the road. You can of course put in manual edits, but with the amount of routes the guys at LFR have to put in, in addition to running everything else related to the site, I can't blame them for not doing so.
 
It's lazy course course design to have 2 ITT's in a six stage race - It's set up for an Ineos rider.
They often have a Prologue and an ITT in the same stage race of Swiss soil, it's a bit of a tradition.
The Prologue is short with an uphill finish (1km at 6.5%) and the final ITT features 800m at 13.3% on cobbles and another hill before the final uphill drag, those aren't TT's for the specialists.
Better profiles:
https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/viewtrack/424871
https://www.la-flamme-rouge.eu/maps/viewtrack/424914
 
It's because Google elevation data isn't that good. In this case, the start of the climb is on a bridge that's, say, 20 meters above a gorge, but Google will give the elevation of the gorge instead of the elevation of the road. You can of course put in manual edits, but with the amount of routes the guys at LFR have to put in, in addition to running everything else related to the site, I can't blame them for not doing so.
As far as I know, the people at Cronoescalada are using a more advanced GPX system for a realistic elevation profile.

Specialized mappers like Climbybike or Climbfinder combining their integrated climb encyclopedia with a route editor tool for users would definitely be the death blow to LFR.
 
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