Tour de France 2013

[Parrulo]

oh right **** me lol even worse because quick step will be doing everything to keep that jersey for as long as possible

 

[roundabout]

I doubt Cavendish will make on stage 3.

Stage 2 looks worse than expected.

Where's the 5th "hilly" stage? Albi? Is stage 2 a "hilly" stage?

 

[Ferminal]

I doubt Cavendish will make on stage 3.

Stage 2 looks worse than expected.

Where's the 5th "hilly" stage? Albi? Is stage 2 a "hilly" stage?

Yeh Stage 2 has the epic Vizzavona, so is considered hilly, or even high mountain. Agreed the finish is bad, could have been a very hard finish.

Albi is "medium mountains", but all in the middle, deliberately voided the hills closer to the finish.

 

[Arnout]

Any expectations on the Corsica stages? On the big map it looks like the first stage is rather flat but the second one could be interesting.

Edit: discussion above me, thanks

 

[MartinGT]

cav could hold the jersey for a full week if Sky wins the TTT which is very likely!!!!

Errrr Fail

 

[Parrulo]

This route is a lack of anything.

First week is one single borefest
Pathetic TTes, ridiclously short
No classic stage types what so ever
Pyrenees are a disgrace for the 100th edition.
220 km flat run into Ventoux
Far too many short stages, far to less really long ones
No mountain stage to get really excited about
So many super flat stages. If at least some of them had a decent length as a triubute to the past
No Vogeses
No Massif central
....

ok i give it to you, you are being reasonable this time

 

[MartinGT]

Wiggins also said that cycling is being held back by something that happend 15 years ago.

What happened? It was a myth

Doilumn

 

[Fidolix]

I hope Contador ditch the tour and goes for the Giro and Vuelta, Andy too.

 

[The Hitch]

oh right **** me lol even worse because quick step will be doing everything to keep that jersey for as long as possible

And they are the world ttt champs so if cav can keep the jersey past the hill, he can keep it till the 2nd week.

 

[Magnus]

I'm a bit disappointed they don't have any stages in the north and and Alsace/Lorraine, but I guess that's to be expected since they had it last year. I just think Ballon d'Alsace would have been nice for the 100'th edition.

I'm very disappointed that they (like last year) don't include any high mountains (I thought last year was bad in this respect with Tourmalet being the highest but figured they'd rectify it this year and then Pailheres is the highest mountain of the tour at 2001 m?).

I'm wondering what stages 5-7 and 10-14 are like. I guess we'll know in June.

Seems like an OK route overall but a bit underwhelming.

 

[Bavarianrider]

I hope Contador ditch the tour and goes for the Giro and Vuelta, Andy too.

Well it is tailor made for Contador and Andy couldn't have dreamed of anything better, realistically, too.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Typical Tour de France MTN stage.

btw, all the stage profiles are on the official site, unlike normal.

EDIT: I was wrong

 

[Bavarianrider]

Typical Tour de France MTN stage.

btw, all the stage profiles are on the official site, unlike normal.

Emberrassing

 

[Leonardus]

And again they didn't include a hard stage in the first week to get some perspective about the gc chances of everyone.
Think it's safe to predict some mass crashes in the first week and when they come to the first MTF about 20 riders will already have abandoned the race. Smart move from Wiggo to do the Giro next year.

 

[OlavEH]

For now I rate the route 6/10.

-1p because of lack of at least one really hard all-day mountain stage with a MTF.

-1p because of pretty lame first week

-2p because of far too many flat stages and because a suspect that the so-called hilly stages are fairly easy.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Another shocking tdf stage

 

[Bavarianrider]

The likes of Gilbert, Boonen, Chavannel and even Sagan can stay at home.

 

[Arnout]

TdF doesn't publish classic like stage profiles this early usually, I remember last year we didn't get the stage profile for the stage won by Pinot (arguably the best stage of last year).

 

[auscyclefan94]

Boring...for 220km, probably more. Why flat all the way leading up to Mont Ventoux?

 

[airstream]

Ah, drop it, the stages like this corsican one are needed too.

 

[Magnus]

Cav is going to win 9 stages

What's the record on a single Tour? I think he can beat that record this year

The record is 8. I very much doubt he is going to beat it.

 

[Magnus]

Boring...for 220km, probably more. Why flat all the way leading up to Mont Ventoux?

Why not?
Some stages are long and some are short. I don't really get what the big deal is.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Somewhat mediocre.

 

[auscyclefan94]

Why not?
Some stages are long and some are short. I don't really get what the big deal is.

Read my question and you will understand what I mean.

Final climb is good but does not do much for me.

 

[Magnus]

The likes of Gilbert, Boonen, Chavannel and even Sagan can stay at home.

Obviously Boonen and Chavanel will be working for Cav but I think it's a bit premature to say for the others.