Guys, forget about climbing! Let's hope the race will proof me wrong, but this is another Tour de Suisse edition that sucks big time. Personally, as a Swiss, once again, I feel ashamed.
Why do they design such ****ty courses? I mean, does IMG want to challenge Eneco Tour or Tour of Poland? Ok, it depends on the riders, whether they make the course hard or not, but TdS 2012 is again ridicolous.
Nobody from IMG shall complain if it will become a boring Tour of Sagan, similar to the Tour of California (luckily they had Mount Baldy, a REAL climb!). Apart from stage 7 ITT, there is no stage that Sagan can't win (nothing against him, that's not his fault!).
Why do they do this? Our beautiful country has so many hard and also a few steep climbs. Not one difficult alpine climb! Arosa climb is ridicolous! Verbier is maybe the only finish that could result in differences of more than 10s with regard to the GC candidates...
Found this here: http://t.co/4EDJSljE - so it seems I'm not alone on a distant planet with my view.
Or is it what today's riders want? No hard climbs shortly before LeTour? Only hard stages in the Grand Tours and the other races with weak profiles?
Who knows... I think it's just sad... Maybe it's gonna change when IMG ceases to run the Tour de Suisse?
On the other hand, riders must not fear a Mortirolo, Stelvio or Ventoux and theoretically could go out full speed max pace at every stage...
We'll see...
Riders, can be lucky that I'm not a professional cycling race course designer!
I had them climb every mean wall I can find! No col or muur steep enough, he he!
Why do they design such ****ty courses? I mean, does IMG want to challenge Eneco Tour or Tour of Poland? Ok, it depends on the riders, whether they make the course hard or not, but TdS 2012 is again ridicolous.
Nobody from IMG shall complain if it will become a boring Tour of Sagan, similar to the Tour of California (luckily they had Mount Baldy, a REAL climb!). Apart from stage 7 ITT, there is no stage that Sagan can't win (nothing against him, that's not his fault!).
Why do they do this? Our beautiful country has so many hard and also a few steep climbs. Not one difficult alpine climb! Arosa climb is ridicolous! Verbier is maybe the only finish that could result in differences of more than 10s with regard to the GC candidates...
Found this here: http://t.co/4EDJSljE - so it seems I'm not alone on a distant planet with my view.
Or is it what today's riders want? No hard climbs shortly before LeTour? Only hard stages in the Grand Tours and the other races with weak profiles?
Who knows... I think it's just sad... Maybe it's gonna change when IMG ceases to run the Tour de Suisse?
On the other hand, riders must not fear a Mortirolo, Stelvio or Ventoux and theoretically could go out full speed max pace at every stage...
We'll see...
Riders, can be lucky that I'm not a professional cycling race course designer!
I had them climb every mean wall I can find! No col or muur steep enough, he he! 
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