That's the best thing that you'll probably get from ASO...It would have 2 Madeleines my brain would hurt
That Northern option is basically copy paste La Rosiere 2018
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That's the best thing that you'll probably get from ASO...It would have 2 Madeleines my brain would hurt
That Northern option is basically copy paste La Rosiere 2018
1 line horror story right thereThat's the best thing that you'll probably get from ASO...
Give me 32km hilly in week one and 40km pan flat at the end.I'd quite dislike a 50k flat time trial. I get the idea, the guys who lose loads of time have to attack but when you've got Jumbo or Ineos team strength, it doesn't work imo. Could be a Tour for Dumoulin to target and leave Roglic to go to the Giro
Col de Bagargui is still a surprise to me. But I'm not gonna complain. There is actually an underused region in the French pyrenees and they use it so that's cool. Just really curious what climbs are gonna preceed it.
I feel like we're coming into a time where all the up-and-coming GC guys are going to be strong in the TT anyway; Dumoulin and Roglic of the older guys, Pogacar and Remco, obviously, but also Almeida now after the Giro might come into the reckoning, and guys like Pinot can put in a decent TT from time to time. Along with that, Alaphilippe showed last year that with the right course design, a strong classics rider with good bike handling skills can win an ITT stage, so surely someone like Hirschi can get up there.I'd quite dislike a 50k flat time trial. I get the idea, the guys who lose loads of time have to attack but when you've got Jumbo or Ineos team strength, it doesn't work imo. Could be a Tour for Dumoulin to target and leave Roglic to go to the Giro
Stage 19 looks like 250km flat stage. Let's hope it doesn't rain
What you guys so down about? Think it looks really decent, but lets wait for the stages to actually be announced. When is it, tomorrow?
Nah, unless they do something really smart with the Tignes stage and fully exploit the options in Andorra, the rumoured route is just mediocre. A couple of good MTFs at Portet and Bagargui doesn't change that.What you guys so down about? Think it looks really decent, but lets wait for the stages to actually be announced. When is it, tomorrow?
When it's the Tour and the sponsrs really care none of those guys will dare to speak up.Stage 19 looks like 250km flat stage. Let's hope it doesn't rain
No Pau, that's weird.. And they were talking about Luz Ardiden too. Probably not 100 % right?
Give me 32km hilly in week one and 40km pan flat at the end.
Also not bringing Roglic is nonsense.
There is 0% chance they do Iséran again before Tignes given what happened last year
With something like Madeleine from North early on I really wouldn't mind that stage.
This is the best somewhat realistic thing that I can come up if you go to Tignes from North, one of those short mountain stages that ASO seems to love sooo much:
https://www.cronoescalada.com/index.php/tracks/viewTour/667735/338999
Envalira is fine if you have a shorter steep climb like Beixalis and a downhill finish in Andorra la Vella after it (no idea how realistic that one would be).The Céret to Andorra stage, it looks like it could contain some interesting cols (like Pailhères, an absolute beast), but then there's really only one way into Andorra, and that's via the Port de l'Envalira, which is high but very gradual and could nullify any action before.