Interesting route. For our current team that opening prologue could turn out to be a key stage with Wisniowski and Rowe who both should do good. After seeing the TT in Baltic Chain Tour last season I'm not so sure about making a gamble with Wisniowski though.
Looks like a first week with a lot of fun! Then it's more of a classic GT, with lots of mountains and few hills. Will be interesting to see how much time difference the TTT forces, as it's coming relatively late and is very long.
Could definitely be a race where it comes down to the wire and the Tre Cime stage, depending on who takes to the start.
tastasol wrote:
Interesting route. For our current team that opening prologue could turn out to be a key stage with Wisniowski and Rowe who both should do good. After seeing the TT in Baltic Chain Tour last season I'm not so sure about making a gamble with Wisniowski though.
It would be a great moment to see him in the leaders jersey, but I do agree that his racedays might be spent better elsewhere.
It will be very interesting to see who turns up for that prologue only
Forever the Best wrote:
Wait, that 59 km of TT on stage 10 is a TTT?
I take back the good things I said about the ITT kms. 31 km of flat ITT is just not enough.
I really don't see the fuzz... It's not like all GT's should be completely balanced towards a mixture of TT and climbing beasts. There will be 2 more GT's, and I suspect some will have more flat TT, while one might have as little as 1 TT.
These versatile parcours makes for some interesting management. If the parcours were always the same it would also be very easy to plan your season. And the PT managers have the easiest planning task, so stuff like this makes it more fun.
Ah, I said that because there was not a TT-oriented one in '17 imo. So feared this can be like as well but the Vuelta is TT-oriented so no problem.
The user formerly known as 'The Schleck Fan' Gracias Alberto.
