Tour de Pologne

[Maaaaaaaarten]

There are difficult climbs in Poland though arn't there?


Have a MTF over here:

Or maybe over here:

and voila, we don't need Italy.

A country with a mountain range reaching 2500m height shouldn't have to go to another country to find difficult climbs.

 

[roundabout]

Do the gazillion laps around Karpacz.

 

[TeoSheva]

But why we need difficult climbs also for the tour of Polonia???
thera are a lot of pro tour races full of climbs, why we need one more?? why only really good climber or really good TTers can win a race??? there are a lot of good riders that are not climbers that deserve to show their strength!
The race in Poland was great! much better than the Dauphine for example!
I really like this kind of race, where the winner is a strong rider!

 

[sucotash]

There are difficult climbs in Poland though arn't there?


Have a MTF over here:

Or maybe over here:

and voila, we don't need Italy.

A country with a mountain range reaching 2500m height shouldn't have to go to another country to find difficult climbs.

From what I know the quality of roads are the problem on those climbs. It is hard to make a road race there.

Not all races must be in high mountains. This year stages were quite good, some improvment on the Zakopane stage wich was on saturday to make it more difficult, not for sprinters, and it would be perfect.

Also to make the race more difficult, the first stage can easily finish on Orlinek, the finish there would make more gaps beetween the best raiders than the sunday one.

We also have Rownica, where Martin won. There are also plenty of other nice hilly parcours never used in TdP.

Do not move our race to Itlay, they have dozens of major races without our only one Ok a stage in one of our neighbour countries Czech Reublic or in Slovakia ( for Sagan if he would like to come back to Poland) but not so far away, in a country with so many other races.

 

[will10]

Not sure what the problem is to be honest, Poland is no Beijing.

Not every race needs a big MTF. Poland is always an entertaining race, with a parcours hard enough to break things up, and the lack of a TT is a good thing - there's enough "win the TT, win the GC" stage races as it is.

 

[TatryTour2013]

Beatifull and also hard stage could use this circle around Tatras - partly in Slovakia and partly in Poland - 200 km - what a adversiment for this beautifull part of Europe:

There is an open race each year using this track.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

The climb Dan Martin won on isn't a big climb though; it's ideal for a race like Poland in that it's only a handful of km, so the time gaps aren't too huge that people don't feel they can win the time back in the circuits around Bukowina Tatrzańska.

If they're going to go abroad, I'd prefer they utilise a tricky medium-mountain course on the Czech border. Could perhaps do with a windy stage on the Baltic coast up by Kołobrzeg or Gdańsk too, or some small-hills-but-up-and-down-all-day type stages around Walbrzych, Jelenia Gora or Klodzko (a finish at the biathlon arena at Duszniki-Zdrój would make me very happy too). They could use the climbs around Jeseník if they wanted to go abroad. There also look like being some good small hills to make a tricky run-in but not a climber's race around Rzeszów and Przemysł; I still think turning the closing stage into a 12km ITT around the Kraków circuit would improve the race greatly.

The Tour de Pologne doesn't need to be a mountainfest. However, there are some good climbs in the Carpathians and so on that I would like to see raced.

There is but one solution... bring back the Peace Race!!! (that also of course gives us another chance to see the Steile Wand von Meerane, which I can never say no to)...

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Mollema won on that climb where Henao died this time. It's not impossible to stay ahead

 

[Pippo_San]

I guess it's just a matter of sponsorship...during the race I took a good look at the numerous sponsors on the side of the road, and most of them are Italians, especially FIAT and (concerning the discussed subject matter) Regione Trentino Alto-Adige.