Now believe it or not, but if Contador hadn't been in such an unbelievably great shape, the attack on the Großglockner would have been extremely stupid. The rest however is completely different from here. The hardest mtf came on the second stage and not on the last one, while the last mtf was at the end of such a hard stage that even the steepness didnt change anything (and gardeccia is also shorter)ice&fire said:Gigs_98 said:The route has several problems:
-First week only has ___/ stages and no difficult passes. However we at least saw some very good racing on the final climbs
-The great andorra stage came far too early. If that stage had been raced today there would have been much more carnage because the final climb gave you the possibility to do a long range attack
-3 mtf's in a row is stupid because the riders are afraid to attack on the first two stages because they might fade on the last one
-3 mtf's in this row is even more stupid because you don't even get good racing on the last stage because the last few hundred meters are so ridiculously steep.
However there are still good stages to come which might make the battle for the gc very interesting. Moreover I didnt know how steep the final climb today was, which is another reason why I rated it 6.
Yep, 3 MTFs in a row at the end of the second week is a problem and automatically leads to bad racing in the third one, even more so if it is steep. Grossglockner, Zoncolan, Gardeccia.
And where the hell did I wrote that it leads to bad racing in the 3rd week. I actually even wrote:
However there are still good stages to come which might make the battle for the gc very interesting