No, theyre Yorkshire, but they wont get called Cote de passe de serpent for instance it will be Cote de snake pass.
Jawbone was actually Cote d' Oughtibridge last time i think, because the road is called Oughtibridge lane. Not Cote de Maxillaire de la baleine. Literally its called Jawbone because they claim there used to be the jawbone of a whale up there marking the summit.
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I was surprised that Vingegaard chose this race; in fact, I mentioned it in his thread. He was already a favorite, although there might have been some doubts about the time Remco could put on him in the time trial. By swapping Jebel Jais for this monster mountain, he becomes the undisputed favorite.
Teams usually receive the route a couple of weeks before it's officially announced.
Teams usually receive the route a couple of weeks before it's officially announced.
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I am excited about a new climb, it's a great change for once, but yes highly likely GC will be decided after day 3 so that's gonna be pretty annoying.
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It would have helped if they’d upped the TT length to balance out the fact that the overall climbing is about twice as hard now. Add 8k-10k and the chances of Evenepoel still being ahead of Vingegaard after stage 3 would have been a lot better.
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That would help yes.
It doesn't hurt that UAE is the only stage race that can have massive echelons on the mountain stages either.
I can see that it has been discussed, but not sure if the more detailed profiles hast been posted. PCS have mapped the TA stages now and posted profiles. Both stage 5 and 6 seems harder (and better) than what I first feared when I saw the official profiles. Especially stage 6 is tough. The Camerino climb seems quite brutal.
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In Algarve they are doing Foia from a different direction this year, it should be significantly harder. like 8ish km at 7%, Malhao stage is worse tho with more kilometers between the 2 ascents.
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the last part is the same as the new side last year, but the start is from monchique
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Yes, but it means more vertical meters, and the first part isn't really from Monchique if I understand it correctly, but they take a smaller steep road. Have to wait till the detailed parcours is out, but from what they are saying it's definitely harder. Last part last year was already good anyways.
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ah, i had it wrong
tried to map foia :
- May 10, 2015
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Yeah exactly what I guessed too. Its an actual climb this time. They could make it hard if they go hard from the beginning on the first steep partah, i had it wrong
tried to map foia :
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