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Having 3/4 cobbled stages can only be done riding over the same cobbled sectors for 3/4 days. They can just swap their order and their location relative to the finish. Like the Flanders classics
On the other hand, testing the best riders to the best of their abilities would surely leave the race with the winner known at the first rest day, and that is bad business for ASO. That is unless cobble stages are after all the TTs and mountains... and nobody waits if the leader suffers a misfortune.
Ruby United said:Tank Engine said:SlickMongoose said:21 x Paris-Roubaix.
11 x Paris-Roubaix + 10 x Lombardy course from the last couple of years.
In all seriousness, I have never understood why we don't have 3/4 Paris-Roubaix type stages in the Tour.
It doesn't have to be quite as hard as Roubaix - even if it is just like 2014 (but longer) or 2015 (but harder) or that one stage where Frank Schleck crashed out in 2010.
I want to see 3/4 of them in the Tour, with one of them being 250km.
I do understand that some would contend it is too difficult for the riders, but isn't that the point of the Tour - to test the best riders of the world to the best of ALL their abilities?
(That's why I am so pro having relatively 80km+ of TT at least in every Tour - the Tour is not supposed to be won by Chiappucci's or even Quintana's [unless he does his every-once-in-a-while brilliant TT]. The Tour should test all aspects of the best riders in the world)
Having 3/4 cobbled stages can only be done riding over the same cobbled sectors for 3/4 days. They can just swap their order and their location relative to the finish. Like the Flanders classics
On the other hand, testing the best riders to the best of their abilities would surely leave the race with the winner known at the first rest day, and that is bad business for ASO. That is unless cobble stages are after all the TTs and mountains... and nobody waits if the leader suffers a misfortune.