CRO Race 2023, Croatia, September 26 - October 1

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When you haven't even turned in for a single second of the race, even though its pretty much the only race around, you know its about time the season is over.

.. and it looks like not much happened anyways during 6 days of racing.
 
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Feb 20, 2012
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When you haven't even turned in for a single second of the race, even though its pretty much the only race around, you know its about time the season is over.

.. and it looks like not much happened anyways during 6 days of racing.
You couldn't force me to watch this no matter what part of the season it is.
 
Feb 20, 2010
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What if they did a 2013 Tour de Pologne and moved the race to Italy for a Monte Crostis-Zoncolan combo?
There are some good options for good racing in Croatia, and in fact the race has taken a few of them before, it's just this year, unfortunately, they did not.

Hell, Labin itself offers a 3,3km at 11% climb around 20km from home if they added a circuit that would have been good.

The shape of Croatia does make cohesive route design tricky, and they're hamstrung by the places that pay to host, but even so what they did with the places that were hosting left a bit to be desired. At the very least, the old Zagreb circuit with the cobbled climb would have been far better.
 
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Jun 20, 2015
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I suspect that the released parcours tricked the teams with it being less hilly than expected, and I doubt teams do detailed recon stages for these type of races
 
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May 10, 2013
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True, but thing is, I wasn't even bothered the check the field or the stages. The season is just over apart from one race now
Too bad a lot of the riders I intended to take in various games next year are scoring a lot of points, pricing themselves out.
 
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Jul 10, 2014
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Chapeau Aular & Caja - good for the team but not a nice way to finish the race.
He managed to make it to the podium, with some bandages on his chin

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