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Well I know that everything is relative but 1896 does not seem that recent to me. The reversed starts & finish were a brief parenthesis in the history of Paris-Tours between 1974 & 1987. 1988 was just a back to the roots. Of course in the seventies they wanted to avoid bunch sprints (because at that time, there were no place for sprinters in classics) and in 1988 with the new route Jean-Pierre Danguillaume tried to find as many climbs as possible to harden it, he found the Côte de l'Épan and all the other climbs which were no part of the route before 1974.
The start outside Paris is not a problem to me. It's still in the area, it's quite hard to organise a start in such a big city and as long as it's OKAY for you to have the Tour of France starting in Düsseldorf and the Tour of Italy in Israël or Tirreno Adriatico in Doha and the Tour of Poland in Patagonia, why not Paris-Roubaix in Compiègnes?
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GuyIncognito said:Also, Paris-Tours only became that relatively recently. It had many other names and starts/finishes before. Not to mention that races like Paris-Tours and Paris-Roubaix don't start in Paris at all.
Well I know that everything is relative but 1896 does not seem that recent to me. The reversed starts & finish were a brief parenthesis in the history of Paris-Tours between 1974 & 1987. 1988 was just a back to the roots. Of course in the seventies they wanted to avoid bunch sprints (because at that time, there were no place for sprinters in classics) and in 1988 with the new route Jean-Pierre Danguillaume tried to find as many climbs as possible to harden it, he found the Côte de l'Épan and all the other climbs which were no part of the route before 1974.
The start outside Paris is not a problem to me. It's still in the area, it's quite hard to organise a start in such a big city and as long as it's OKAY for you to have the Tour of France starting in Düsseldorf and the Tour of Italy in Israël or Tirreno Adriatico in Doha and the Tour of Poland in Patagonia, why not Paris-Roubaix in Compiègnes?
TMP402 said:LS, you would know this: what are all the "Paris-" races? I have Nice, Roubaix, Camembert, Troyes, Arras, Corrèze, Brussels, Bourges, and Tours.
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