A 7 month long race? Kruijswijk might finally be the best rider in the race by the 12th week.I'm looking forward to this race. Roll on the 3rd of June.
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A 7 month long race? Kruijswijk might finally be the best rider in the race by the 12th week.I'm looking forward to this race. Roll on the 3rd of June.
I love the multiple layers of this joke, especially since they don’t point directly to what the joke is about! CN forum gold.A 7 month long race? Kruijswijk might finally be the best rider in the race by the 12th week.
Great route. Looking forward to it.
Nairo to ride past the race-neutralized flag and take the winWeather for Turini is expected to be pretty bad next week. Freezing cold and possibility for snow...
It's a shame they go with the unipuerto 'queen' stage but little to complain otherwise, there's some strong designs and everyone will have at least one stage that suits them. The return of Col de la Mure - in a very interesting stage - is an especially nice surprise and the stage after it is a good tribute to the season openers.
Edit with the climb profiles:
Stage 1
Final circuit
Stage 3
Côte de Le Peyroux
Final kilometres
Stage 5
Croix de Chaubouret
Côte de Saint-Romain-de-Lerps
Côte de Toulaud
Col de la Mure
Saint-Vincent-de-Durfort (as far as 5.4k below the summit of this profile)
Stage 6
Col de Murs
Col du Pointu (final 6.9k only)
Col de Sambuc
Col des Portes (final 4.8k only)
Col de Pas de la Couelle
Col de l'Espigoulier
Final kilometres
Stage 7
Côte de Coursegoules
Col de Turini
Stage 8
Côte de Levens
Côte de Châteauneuf
Côte de Berre-les-Alpes
Côte de Peille
Col d'Èze
The wind looks good (strong enough) for tomorrow and monday. Especially monday there should be echelons because the wind direction is perfect.
Are there really 17 bends on the 1 km climb "Côte des Dix-sept tournants" on stage 2?
Is there such thing as a “Poggito”?Are there really 17 bends on the 1 km climb "Côte des Dix-sept tournants" on stage 2?
The Tirreno startlist is similar, it helps that just about anyone worth anything is doing either of the two races. Which is nice, because both are among the best week-long stage races of the year.The startlist is really strong.
Roglic, A Yates, Nairoman, S Yates, Vlasov, Schachmann, Martinez, G Martin, Gaudu, Haig, Mader, Mcnulty, Almeida, O'connor, Powless, Labour.
Wout van aert, Sonny Colbrelli,
Jakobsen, Philipsen, Groenewegen, Girhmay, pedersen, Sam Bennett.
I thinks it's always been a much better and maybe more prestigious race than tirreno Adriatico, but it lost some startlist quality in the last 10 years thanks to Strade Bianche