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Dekker_Tifosi said:No, that kind of stuff belongs to the Vuelta.
I like that the Giro, Tour and Vuelta all have their own character. Giro with the gruelling mountain stages and treacherous intermiate stuff, Vuelta with the monoclimb monsters. Tour with the gradual climbs.. leave it that way.
ice&fire said:France has plenty of brutal climbs west of La Pierre Saint Martin they never use. If they persist in this neglect I'm in favour of using them in La Vuelta instead. They did it last year and everyone seemed to like it.
Red Rick said:The real question would be if people want to see the Finestre in the Tour de France.
Also, the closest thing we had in the last few years was the Vuelta finishing on the Aubisque. People were quite enthusiastic about it
No problem. La Vuelta can return to a stage finish in Spain climbing Larrau or LPSMChrispol said:ice&fire said:France has plenty of brutal climbs west of La Pierre Saint Martin they never use. If they persist in this neglect I'm in favour of using them in La Vuelta instead. They did it last year and everyone seemed to like it.
There is no towns who candidate to have a stage from the TDF in that area.
Sadly, I don't think they'll be more interested having the Vuelta instead...
what does it have to do with sky train controlling the pace uphill? it seems sky train can be easily blamed for any race ending up with undesired outcome. although angliru and zoncolan deliver unbounded room for attacks since drafting has pretty much no effect on such steep slopes.portugal11 said:No!! It would be disgusting to see the sky train controlling a zoncolan or angliru. Huh...