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murali said:which stage? i didn't notice any stage ending in a descent. is there any change in stage profile. i am using steephill to look at the profiles. am i looking at the wrong place?
murali said:
every stage.
probably you can claim that the one matthews won is different. but that was a stage that orica team was on the offensive.
Flamin said:In what stages?
therhodeo said:The stage Martin almost won, the stage Stybar won.......
The entire vuelta is very sprinter unfriendly so no one brought their A-teams. The fact that Tony almost held them off solo is evidence of that. Had that been the tour they would have reeled him in with 10k to and went about business as usual.
Flamin said:Both are ***-ups by the (non-existing) sprinter teams. That has nothing to do with stage design favourable to attackers.
Piz Buin said:I loved the route. Since I really don't care for pan-flate stages. I didn't mind the muritos at the end at all. It made almost every stage interesting. At the tdf I had to skip every other stage.