No more prologues in TdF?

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  • Richmond Racer
    Richmond Racer Posts: 8,561
    TailWindHome wrote:
    inkyfingers wrote:
    TailWindHome wrote:
    Let's have the prologue on the Friday night.

    That would be fun, but somebody would probably decide it's too dangerous to ride a bike in the dark and get it neutralised.


    A neutralised prologue could be fun!

    200 riders all doing coming off a start ramp and doing trackstands.


    Trackstands ON the ramp... :)
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Didn't the Vuelta have a 3-man team time trial as a prologue in the early 90's?

    edit: 1991. Just looked it up.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    r0bh wrote:
    The casual fan does not watch three hours of a Tour stage :?

    TdF shouldn't be for the casual fan. This is all wrong, it's not there to be enjoyed. You supposed to suffer the Tour, not enjoy it! Stage one should be a 80km pan flat time trial! :shock:
  • inkyfingers
    inkyfingers Posts: 4,400
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    r0bh wrote:
    The casual fan does not watch three hours of a Tour stage :?

    TdF shouldn't be for the casual fan. This is all wrong, it's not there to be enjoyed. You supposed to suffer the Tour, not enjoy it! Stage one should be a 80km pan flat time trial! :shock:

    You might as well just forget the remaining 20 days and give Wiggins the trophy straight away then :wink:
    "I have a lovely photo of a Camargue horse but will not post it now" (Frenchfighter - July 2013)
  • sherer
    sherer Posts: 2,460
    surely half the reason the prologue gets poorer viewing figures is that it's a Saturday and maybe the casual fan has other things to do at the weekend. Are there any figures to back up what the ASO are saying ?
  • thomthom
    thomthom Posts: 3,574
    sherer wrote:
    surely half the reason the prologue gets poorer viewing figures is that it's a Saturday and maybe the casual fan has other things to do at the weekend. Are there any figures to back up what the ASO are saying ?

    A saturday in the middle of the holidays couldn't be a better time to air.

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