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Tour of Estonia starting tomorrow with a surprisingly strong Uno-X team at the start line. They are one of only two PRT teams along with Team Novo Nordisk in a field filled with continental and national teams.

(The reason they are starting this race is because Rasmus Bøgh Wallin is the reigning champion of this race. Otherwise I doubt they would even be at the start.)
 
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Nick2413 said:
Didn’t realize Wout is back. Wonder if he’ll be racing at full gas. Crazy that a stage race in Norway has a biggest climb of less than 6km at 8%
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Even crazier, this is the most challenging stage of the race in years.

For a while it was basically the Tour of the Oslofjord and they tried to bias the parcours so that Kristoff and Boasson Hagen won as much as possible, then the Hammer Stavanger carnival killed the Tour des Fjords on the west coast, and resulted in a stage race that traveled from the old stomping grounds of the latter to the Oslofjord, resulting in a bunch of miserable flat stages.
 
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Libertine Seguros said:
Even crazier, this is the most challenging stage of the race in years.

For a while it was basically the Tour of the Oslofjord and they tried to bias the parcours so that Kristoff and Boasson Hagen won as much as possible, then the Hammer Stavanger carnival killed the Tour des Fjords on the west coast, and resulted in a stage race that traveled from the old stomping grounds of the latter to the Oslofjord, resulting in a bunch of miserable flat stages.
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It could be one of the most stunning stage races, such a pity.
 
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Tim Cahill said:
Got pure puncheur Benoit Cosnefroy winning ****ing flat prologues against 80 kilo track riders now, someone needs to pull apart one of these bikes to see what they're doing.
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It isn't a flat prologue though, the main hill may not look like much in numbers but it starts with a chicane and generally most of the route is at least a false flat either uphill or downhill.
 
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Devil's Elbow said:
It isn't a flat prologue though, the main hill may not look like much in numbers but it starts with a chicane and generally most of the route is at least a false flat either uphill or downhill.
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More than flat or not it's the technicality of the prologue that makes it perfect for Cosnefroy or Zingle type of guys. It's super explosive apart from like 1km in the middle.
 
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