Liege Bastogne Liege 2016 ***SPOILERS***

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  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 13,328
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    The last couple of climbs look pretty nasty. So just make it 300km and use the extra for a crit loop round them a few times.

    they are 100-200 vertical meters climbs, more for Sagan than for Quintana

    Well to be honest, I can't think of many one-dayers with an HC finish climb, and even fewer in Belgium!
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  • ugo.santalucia
    ugo.santalucia Posts: 28,262
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    ugo.santalucia wrote:
    No tA Doctor wrote:
    The last couple of climbs look pretty nasty. So just make it 300km and use the extra for a crit loop round them a few times.

    they are 100-200 vertical meters climbs, more for Sagan than for Quintana

    Well to be honest, I can't think of many one-dayers with an HC finish climb, and even fewer in Belgium!

    If you look at the Tour of Lombardy, there are climbs with 500-600 vertical meters, which are proper climbers stuff... if you want a climbers classic you nee the geography and maybe the Ardennes were good for the 1970s, but these days they are no longer a threat to anyone in the peloton... it's down to who is in form and focussed on the day, rather than the best climber
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  • ddraver
    ddraver Posts: 26,391
    Has it not ever been thus?

    Plus Woot Poels is hardly a bad climber...
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,576
    I think DDRaver's point 2 on the previous page is one of the key problems with World Tour races in general. With regards to L-B-L maybe the solution is fewer hills together with a longer flat run in to the finish so that anyone who wants to avoid a bunch sprint of some sort has to break it up earlier.

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