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Agree with Jamie Dyer's comment on the French climbs. The organisers should resist building a Tour around what teams like Sky want. Cycling should be unpredictable, dangerous, and have a certain element of luck/tragedy to it - otherwise it just ends up as Formula One on bicycles.
Some of the Flemish commentators were getting a bit over excited and
arguing that there should be a stage like this in all the Tours. I think they do have a point. That one stage turned things upside down for the GC and showed that good old fashioned gritty, dirty cycling is the most exciting thing to watch.
Agree with Jamie Dyer's comment on the French climbs. The organisers should resist building a Tour around what teams like Sky want. Cycling should be unpredictable, dangerous, and have a certain element of luck/tragedy to it - otherwise it just ends up as Formula One on bicycles.
Some of the Flemish commentators were getting a bit over excited and
arguing that there should be a stage like this in all the Tours. I think they do have a point. That one stage turned things upside down for the GC and showed that good old fashioned gritty, dirty cycling is the most exciting thing to watch.
