Due to extreme weather, with heavy rain and landslides in the mountains north of Beijing, the MGUCI have decided to change the route of 2019 Tour of Beijing.

	HIL	MO	STA	RES	ACC
Claeys	83	67	74	68	73
Kelderman	82	71	80	75	72
Kinoshita	82	72	80	77	77
Izagirre	81	74	73	72	64
Beltran	81	79	73	72	76
Dowsett	80	65	74	69	71
Vogt	80	62	78	71	63
Borges	80	70	75	73	81
Betancourt	80	73	72	71	74
Flügel	80	71	77	65	72
Vakoc	80	71	75	71	74
Waeytens	80	71	72	70	73
Prevar	80	71	77	70	73
Gautier	80	68	76	72	77
Jensen	80	70	77	73	76
Barrio	79	70	69	63	67
Paulinho	79	75	70	72	75
Yates	79	70	77	70	80
Gebrezgabihier	79	70	74	74	69
Slagter	79	78	71	73	71
Reichenbach	79	73	76	69	69

	HIL	MO	STA	RES	ACC
Oomen	74	78	76	75	68
Hiratsuka	74	77	73	74	60
Grmay	74	77	71	73	71
Boily	78	76	72	72	74
Kratochvila	77	76	70	68	64
Eyob	76	76	74	69	66
Destribois	75	76	68	69	75
Nitu	74	76	73	70	70
Serry	78	75	71	70	69
Seibeb	76	75	70	69	73
Shirota	75	75	69	68	78
De Plus	75	75	72	72	70
Blikra	75	75	72	70	72

	FL	HIL	SP	ACC
Itami	75	61	80	82
Haller	72	65	80	79
Salleh	70	59	80	80
Rowe	72	62	80	70
Pelucchi	74	68	79	77
Selig	71	65	79	81
Colbrelli	74	61	79	75
Vanderaerden	72	61	79	75

Croatia14 wrote:
Go Beltran! Shambolic decision though to change the route, I hope this race turns out to be similar to what could've been expected from the previous design.

Tamijo wrote:


The previous design was a 100% mountain race, off course it will be different otherwise no reason to change it.

jph27 wrote:


However, because of how PCM18 Mountain/Hill AI works it is still a harder than usual hilly race - repeated climbing will favour riders with better Mountain stats, so it shouldn't prove too much of a disadvantage that the profiles have changed.

jph27 wrote:


However, because of how PCM18 Mountain/Hill AI works it is still a harder than usual hilly race - repeated climbing will favour riders with better Mountain stats, so it shouldn't prove too much of a disadvantage that the profiles have changed.

redordead wrote:


That remains to be seen. Still, not sure we would see climbers like Oomen, Grmay etc. on the startlist if this was the original profile.

Either way it pans out, it doesn't feel right to change profiles after planning has been done.

redordead wrote:


That remains to be seen. Still, not sure we would see climbers like Oomen, Grmay etc. on the startlist if this was the original profile.

Either way it pans out, it doesn't feel right to change profiles after planning has been done.

Tamijo wrote:


Clearly I'm not MGUCI and as such not the one to defend the change, but the profile said 100% hilly find I hard to see that it would be fair to have riders with little HI and mediocre MO to make out the entire top 10-15, what would be the case if it was not changed. There is very few (If any) top quality climbers here and a bunch of top punchers, indication that 9/10 riders a puncher race.