Unipublic's submission for least interesting GT MTF in history. They went out of their way too - this is the single easiest of the 10 or so variants of a Manzaneda MTF, and they're doing it as an unipuerto...
Low-gradient hills all day until that MTF, it will be a pretty strenuous battle to get into that breakaway that really should be winning the stage. The intermediate sprint is actually in the wrong place on the profile: it's about 3 kilometres lower on that climb, Alto de Cerdeira. Surprisingly, I have a profile.
And this is the MTF. It just isn't hard at all, nowhere near deserving of its cat. 1 status. It sits somewhere in between Mégève in the 2022 Tour and Bocca della Selva in this year's Giro - neither MTF had any GC action, and Chris Froome finished less than half a minute down on the GC riders without having been in the break on one of them. In other words, not exactly the most exciting stage of this Vuelta - it isn't even that good of a breakaway day.
Low-gradient hills all day until that MTF, it will be a pretty strenuous battle to get into that breakaway that really should be winning the stage. The intermediate sprint is actually in the wrong place on the profile: it's about 3 kilometres lower on that climb, Alto de Cerdeira. Surprisingly, I have a profile.
And this is the MTF. It just isn't hard at all, nowhere near deserving of its cat. 1 status. It sits somewhere in between Mégève in the 2022 Tour and Bocca della Selva in this year's Giro - neither MTF had any GC action, and Chris Froome finished less than half a minute down on the GC riders without having been in the break on one of them. In other words, not exactly the most exciting stage of this Vuelta - it isn't even that good of a breakaway day.
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