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I don't think it's that unrealistic to expect people to stay within 25 minutes on a stage where the 3 categorized climbs took 88 minutes to climb.
Eyeballs Out said:Yep daft. No pro rider should have trouble making it as long as they ride to their max - which I would think is exactly what happened yesterday. The rule is there to stop riders coasting in theory (and yes they absolutely should have thrown out everyone last year when it was obvious everyone had that was HD was having an extra rest day). We regularly see genuinely easier stages where the cut off is 50 mins +.hrotha said:Daft? The fact that all but 27 riders made the time cut at the end of a three-week race kinda proves you're wrong, but regardless, HD shouldn't be calculated so that nobody has trouble making it (unfortunately, it usually is).
27 minutes for a 119 km stage should be enough.
I don't think it's that unrealistic to expect people to stay within 25 minutes on a stage where the 3 categorized climbs took 88 minutes to climb.