Tour de France Tour de France 2023, stage 11: Clermont-Ferrand - Moulins, 179.8k

[Lequack]

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[KZD]

Can't believe Philipsen is going to win every sprint stage and other teams will just let him.

Well to be fair, he lost that sprint on stage 8 against Pedresen but he has been really dominant nonetheless.

In a way I think that Philipsen winning so many stages this year could tempt ASO to reduce the number of flat stages in future Tour editions and bring more time trials, hilly stages or even 'alternative' stages over cobbles or even gravel.

 

[Netserk]

Well to be fair, he lost that sprint on stage 8 against Pedresen but he has been really dominant nonetheless.

In a way I think that Philipsen winning so many stages this year could tempt ASO to reduce the number of flat stages in future Tour editions and bring more time trials, hilly stages or even 'alternative' stages over cobbles or even gravel.

Better flat stages would go a long way. Like stage 8. Or the two in the second week last year.

 

[Lequack]

Philipsen has now won 20% of all this year's TDF stages.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Philipsen has now won 20% of all this year's TDF stages.

?? 4/11?=.2????

 

[Gratemans]

Hugely disappointing stage… I hoped the times when we see one sprinter winning four to six flat sprints would be over.

I cannot understand why they put in that many flat sprint stages, anyways, even in current GTs… People want to see hilly and mountainuous stages, because flat stages are boring.

They should put in three flat sprint stages during the whole TdF: one in week 1, one in week 2, and the last one to Paris.

Hills and mountains make pro road cycling interesting. Sprints are rather for track cycling fans, I‘d say.

No. Sprint stages are also there to give other riders some (relative) rest. And they're part of cycling. Yes they are mostly boring until the finish (although I also like em sometimes for the meditative calm they can bring), but I do love watching the sprint itself and analysing afterwards. It also makes the more exciting stages, where there's also action along the way, that more fun.
I have nothing against shortening some of them a bit though.

 

[SHAD0W93]

?? 4/11?=.2????

4 / 11 = 36%
4 / 21 = 19%

 

[titan31]

You are taking away the most fundamental thing about bike racing, if you shorten stages.

It is a test of endurance!

These miles in the flat stages at +40 km/h counts at the end of a race, especially in a GT.

I'd replace those though. Give me a 200k hilly stage and a 100k flat stage instead of a 150k hilly stage and a 150k flat stage. More likely something will happen in the first

 

[Samu Cuenca]

4 / 11 = 36%
4 / 21 = 19%

Sounds like RhD's student has become the master.

 

[canarydan23]

Finally won one clean.