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The Tour has it's all stages in France and yet there's very high amount of transfers.
The Tour has it's all stages in France and yet there's very high amount of transfers.
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- Jul 8, 2017
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- May 5, 2010
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- Jul 27, 2009
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If they do THAT Aosta stage and Stelvio - Bormio 2000 from Prad I'm fine with no Finestre.
Sorry not sorry.
- Sep 20, 2017
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There have and this year is particularly bad for excessive distances between finish and starts.
Tempogrinding climbs can be good for racing if everyone is tired and there race has split into lots of small groups, but for that you need a hard stage to tire riders and a hard climb to split the riders up.
This proposal would have the only steep climb as the first of the day so it would most likely just be a team setting a relatively hard tempo all day until the last few km of the joux where you might see an attack if the race situation suits.
The only benefit of this route is that its significantly harder than the previously rumoured stage which should mean a more tired peloton for finestre a day later.
A queen stage in Aosta could be very good, but I don't see the potential if Finestre is the day after. And the sequence of those climbs seems a bit wrong. Tzecore before Saint-Panthaleon and Joux? The best option in that area would be Saint-Panthaleo first followed by the sequence of Arlaz, Tzecore, Joux and then the finish to Champoluc. The small loop to Antagnod also seems a point pointless.
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- Apr 8, 2023
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Yep, apparently no refugees, no police and no social workers. So the Giro seems to be stuck in the middle of the politicians and the judges. I'll guess that the politicians want the plan to go ahead (as do the Albanians) and use the Giro as "sportswashing". If the plan falls apart then the politicians wont want people to be reminded of the debacle (millions of Euros down "the Adriatic"
)https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-albania-after-staffing-empty-migrant-centres
- Apr 10, 2019
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Because RCS are morons who got gaslighted into this stuff, because big money for a Grande Partenza if everything goes right.
- May 5, 2010
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There we have it; no Albania next year!
(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)
(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)
- Jul 8, 2017
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There we have it; no Albania next year!
(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)
La Vuelta never planned to go to Albania though
- May 5, 2010
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Somehow I thought it was the Giro account posting it... I just saw a city in Italy, and knew that there was some questions about where the Giro was starting next year. Well, turn out that sometimes 2+2 does not equal 4.
- May 27, 2022
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Tbf the idea of La Vuelta starting in Piemonte is pretty random.
- Jul 8, 2017
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But, vut...the picture literally has "La Vuelta" right in the middle of it 😀.
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I still rate his chances to go to the Vuelta higher than the Giro.
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I focused on the city, and the big Italian Flag background, not the small logo in the top.
But I guess still less random than the Giro starting in Albania, or Hungary, or Israel, or The Netherlands, or Northern Ireland, or Denmark...
- May 27, 2022
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Yeah Northern Ireland was random AF, but the Vuelta doesn't have as many starts abroad as the Giro or Tour. Also, the Giro has never been to Spain and the idea of it seems weird.
- Apr 8, 2023
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Correct, the Vuelta is not going to Albania next year!There we have it; no Albania next year!
(Just to be clear, the country is probably still going to exist)
- May 5, 2010
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Correct, the Vuelta is not going to Albania next year!
Yeah, yeah, yeah. We've been through this already.
And I was thinking what do Aru, Nibali, Gimondi, Battaglin and two other dudes I don't recognise have in common that Coppi is missing!
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