Tour de Romandie 2023, April 25-30

[Lequack]

It's the battle of the Yates brothers. But other then them there are also an ssortment of other GC talent. Higuita, Bardet and Lutsenko have all been in great form.
Also the long awaited return of young Juan Ayuso, who was 3rd last year in the Vuelta at the age of 19.
Last year it was Vlasov who blitzed the final mountain ITT and beat Rohan Dennis for the win.

Notable GC mentions: Higuita, Simon Yates, Adam Yates, Bardet, Pinot, Jorgenson, Herrada, Lutsenko, Ayuso, Costa, Woods, Foss, Izagirre
Notable sprinters: Hayter, Gaviria, Cort, Cavendish, Nizzolo

Overview

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Startlist

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[Lequack]

Prologue»Port-Valais›Port-Valais(6.82km)

Stage 1»Crissier›Vallée de Joux(170.9km)

Stage 2»Morteau›La Chaux-de-Fonds(162.7km)

Stage 3 (ITT)»Châtel-Saint-Denis›Châtel-Saint-Denis(18.75km)

Stage 4»Sion›Thyon 2000(161.6km)

Stage 5 (Final)»Vufflens-la-Ville›Genève(170.8km)

 

[Samamba]

That's last years route

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not that this year's route is any better...

Edit: Climb profiles.

Stage 1
Fontanezier + Mauborget

Mont d'Orzeires

Stage 2
Same finale as in 2019, when Roglic won a heavily-reduced sprint after Thomas and Betancur were caught at the very last.

Baset

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La Vue des Alpes

La Tourne (final 7.3k only)

Le Communal + Finish

Stage 3
Les Pueys (they skip the first kilometre)

Stage 4
Carbon copy of the 2021 stage, when Thomas had that bizarre crash metres from the finish line.

Chamoson (first 2.2k only)

Anzère

Lens

Suen

Thyon 2000

Stage 5
Grand Fuey (only the 5.9k leading up to the junction to Saint-George, i.e. the bit from 9.8k until 3.9k on the profile below)

Le Molard

 

[Lequack]

That's last years route

You're right, I'll fix it.

 

[RedheadDane]

Deeply disappointed by the headline. It should be:

Tour de Romandie 2023, 5 Day WT Stage Race, April 25-30 (Men's)

 

[yaco]

Only three important stages the prologue/ITT and stage 4 - The rest should finish in reduced bunch sprints.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I guess only stage 1 is really for the sprinters. Stage 5 features enough climbing and false flat downhill that the breakaway could make it. If Küng was riding this one this would be the stage for a Küng breakaway win, probably with rainy weather.

 

[DNP-Old]

Jan Christen the saviour will guide us to the light.

 

[Potomac]

Two time trials in six days of racing?

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Two time trials in six days of racing?

I wish I had a Tour de Romandie bingo card, some variation of this comment pops up on the first page of the race thread every single year.

 

[Didinho]

Only Juan can win.

 

[tobydawq]

Kévin Vauquelin will win this bike race.

 

[movingtarget]

Pinot got anything left in the tank ? Although two TTs probably already have him hugging his goats................

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Not sure who has a realistic chance of winning, but I'll be rooting for Magnus Cort (providing he still has his awesome 80s pornstache), and I'm curious how Froome and Cav will do.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Deeply disappointed by the headline. It should be:

Tour de Romandie 2023, 5 Day WT Stage Race, April 25-30 (Men's)

Deeply disappointed by the post. It should be:

Tour de Romandie 2023, 6 Day WT Stage Race, April 25-30 (Men‘s)

 

[RedheadDane]

Deeply disappointed by the post. It should be:

Tour de Romandie 2023, 6 Day WT Stage Race, April 25-30 (Men‘s)

I always forget that you have to include both the starting and the finishing day...
(This is not helping me get rid of the "bad with numbers" reputation.)

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Deeply disappointed by the post. It should be:

Tour de Romandie 2023, 6 Day WT Stage Race, April 25-30 (Men‘s)

Hopefully the Tour de Romandie will be less confusing than this thread has been up to this point.

 

[search]

Hopefully the Tour de Romandie will be less confusing than this thread has been up to this point.

...or Rohan Dennis' plans for the week

https://twitter.com/x/status/1650470017736011776

View: https://twitter.com/raffilpt/status/1650470017736011776

 

[tobydawq]

I always forget that you have to include both the starting and the finishing day...
(This is not helping me get rid of the "bad with numbers" reputation.)

By that logic, a one-day race would be a zero-day race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I always forget that you have to include both the starting and the finishing day...
(This is not helping me get rid of the "bad with numbers" reputation.)

I bet you were quite confused the first time you heard "Eight Days a Week" by The Beatles. Maybe you still are.

 

[tobydawq]

I bet you were quite confused the first time you heard "Eight Days a Week" by The Beatles. Maybe you still are.

I still am confused when people in Denmark use the term "Wednesday, 8 days" to refer to the following Wednesday after the next one.

 

[DNP-Old]

...or Rohan Dennis' plans for the week

https://twitter.com/x/status/1650470017736011776

View: https://twitter.com/raffilpt/status/1650470017736011776

Man, that marriage is almost as bad as Dennis Rohan's with Bahrain.

 

[Mayomaniac]

I guess Mäder will be the main gc rider for Bahrain in this race since he's Swiss, while for Caruso it's more about getting ready for the Giro.

 

[Lequack]

Is Rohan Dennis scheduled for the Tour?