It's all Froome's fault?I'm just sitting here waiting for Godwins law to happen again
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It's all Froome's fault?I'm just sitting here waiting for Godwins law to happen again
It's all Froome's fault?
Tbf I wasn't one of the people shouting for Gamoniteiro to begin with. I also wouldn't complain about it if it was placed differently but I feel like this is simply about as bad of a use of a monster mtf as you can come up with.CN forum for the last 12 years: "We want Gamoniteiro"
CN forum: Gets Gamoniteiro
CN forum: "We don't want Gamoniteiro anymore
CN forum for the last 12 years: "We want Gamoniteiro"
CN forum: Gets Gamoniteiro
CN forum: "We don't want Gamoniteiro anymore
Similar to so much of the whinging that goes on about Grand Tour routes these days. I remember when I first joined a cycling forum back in 2005/06, there was nothing only complaining about too many TT km in the grand tours and not enough MTFs. Now it seems to have come full circle. Now we seem to want more TT kilometres and less MTF because they are only raced in the last km or because they are 'poorly positioned.' Yikes!! Sometimes you can never win.
Nah, even there are disagreements about TT kms and MTFs, I think that the by far most common issue on the design of Grand Tours in this forum is that there are too few stages which promotes attack from further out than the few last km. Especially in the Vuelta, but also to an increasing degree in the Tour, they are relying on MTFs and particularly MTFs with the steepest section in the end. That is not a good recipe for having more than 10-15 mins of action.........
Hey now, I said Finestre 2018 was gonna be insane when everyone said it was gonna be a waiting game for Jafferau.But then when the early action actually does happen, it is swept under the rug and disregarded as pure luck and circumstance.
I don't think there is many that would characterize any stage involving climbs like Mortirolo or Finestre as luck and circumstance. Or the Stelvio stage last year. Or the Cortina stage this year if that is action-packed........But then when the early action actually does happen, it is swept under the rug and disregarded as pure luck and circumstance