- Feb 25, 2010
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It's a pity they didn't have someone like Rutsch in the break, then surely they would have known.
It's a pity they didn't have someone like Rutsch in the break, then surely they would have known.
- Apr 3, 2009
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He was well clear when he moved to the middle, and the last little swerve was nothing.
- May 5, 2010
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- Sep 26, 2020
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- Sep 2, 2011
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- Feb 26, 2022
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Agreed. One of the best stories of Spring, easy rider to root for too.
Honestly is it crazy to think he can Top 10 this race? Yes, but I don't know what he did in his Training. His climbing level seems to be insane this year. After his contracts ends in 2023 every big GC Team will throw cases of money at him to join their team. Bora for example has a few high profile contracts ending and they need TT/ road captaining/cobbling in their Team. But basically all teams need a Stefan Küng.
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- Jan 8, 2020
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This is a shitt parcours, why, for example, did they not have programed a serious mtf on stage 3? It's going to be a bore fest till Friday.
- Oct 13, 2021
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Thursday’s second half of the stage is up and down most of the way.
- Jun 7, 2011
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His TT duel with Evenepoel in Algarve was all but tense. I think worked on his climbing at the expense of his TT.
- Apr 16, 2009
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We have two proper mountain stages, a ITT and no flat stages. I don't think is bad but after all the complains about the flat stages this is good. Not all stages can be mountain or ITT stages.
- Jun 7, 2011
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- Sep 20, 2017
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Tomorrow's climbs:
Once again lots of uncategorised climbing early on that the organisers decided they didn't need to give out KOM points for. Right out of the gate, we have the Eichenberg, which was already climbed today.
After the only prolonged flat section of the race, which sees us cross into Francophone territory, we reach the Col des Rangiers.
This backs nicely into the steep Côte de Montenol, yet another uncategorised ascent in spite of how steep it is. It's the profile below as far as the junction to Essartfallon.
The next climb, Côte de Bouvier, finally breaks the trend of the organisers being stingy with the mountain points - it's even a cat. 1!
The following climb, to Bellelay, is certainly the most scenic of the day, passing through a gorge and with an abbey next to its summit.
The gradual descent, which eventually features a stretch of highway, is broken up by the Col de Pierre-Pertuis, directly after the intermediate sprint.
The penultimate climb of the day is the Vauffelin, the middle section of the profile below from Frinvillers to the junction to Vauffelin.
Its descent takes us across the linguistic border once more and into Grenchen, where the finish line is situated outside the famous velodrome. However, we still have an 8-shaped lap to go, which features the final climb of the day, to Lommiswil.
The final kilometres aren't entirely flat, but should be controllable by the peloton if we end up getting a sprint finish. There are two 90-degree left-handers in the final 600 metres, the final one at 320 metres from the line.
Once again lots of uncategorised climbing early on that the organisers decided they didn't need to give out KOM points for. Right out of the gate, we have the Eichenberg, which was already climbed today.
After the only prolonged flat section of the race, which sees us cross into Francophone territory, we reach the Col des Rangiers.
This backs nicely into the steep Côte de Montenol, yet another uncategorised ascent in spite of how steep it is. It's the profile below as far as the junction to Essartfallon.
The next climb, Côte de Bouvier, finally breaks the trend of the organisers being stingy with the mountain points - it's even a cat. 1!
The following climb, to Bellelay, is certainly the most scenic of the day, passing through a gorge and with an abbey next to its summit.
The gradual descent, which eventually features a stretch of highway, is broken up by the Col de Pierre-Pertuis, directly after the intermediate sprint.
The penultimate climb of the day is the Vauffelin, the middle section of the profile below from Frinvillers to the junction to Vauffelin.
Its descent takes us across the linguistic border once more and into Grenchen, where the finish line is situated outside the famous velodrome. However, we still have an 8-shaped lap to go, which features the final climb of the day, to Lommiswil.
The final kilometres aren't entirely flat, but should be controllable by the peloton if we end up getting a sprint finish. There are two 90-degree left-handers in the final 600 metres, the final one at 320 metres from the line.
- Apr 30, 2011
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What an absolutely crazy race it has been. Everything has happened so far. Will today and tomorrow bring the best racing of the year too?
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- Jan 8, 2020
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Yes but I meant the distribution of the real GC hard stages. I don't see why a real mountain stage, for example, couldn't have been on day 2 or 3, to then have a hard weekend at the end? The way it is we have Sun-Thurs. where nothing basically will happen in terms of battles amongst GC contenders. To me that's boring.
- Aug 29, 2009
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it's also not sure if Küng will stay around that long. His wife is expecting their first child this week, and he'd immediately leave the race then
- May 5, 2010
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So if he suddenly jumbs off his bike, into a car, and speeds off, we shouldn't be too surprised?
What would they do if she got into labour while he was doing the ITT, and possible was in a position to challenge for the win?
He'd probably have plenty of time to finish, and even if he won, I'm sure he'd be allowed to skip the interviews.
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- Sep 11, 2016
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- Jun 7, 2011
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To be fair i also don't expect Evenepoel to be that dominant in the TT as he was in Algarve. Since then he's lost 3 to 4 kg mainly muscle, and i think that boosted his TT performance back then. It could be a lot closer this time, but there are some others here that could do a good TT. Depending on how they manage their efforts in the mountains at least. Bissegger, Asgreen, Bettiol, Van Wilder... But Küng would not be my clear favorite.
- Apr 13, 2021
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Bissegger should be favourite for the stage win as fully motivated on home roads with a parcours not too hilly to rule him out and the likes of Evenepoel and Van Wilder expending a lot more energy through the preceding mountain days riding for GC.
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