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Tour De France 2013 Route
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| Avin Wargunnson |
Posted on 24-10-2012 12:28
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It seems they want Cav to win the green, because there are too many stages for him, i would like more for Sagan though. 
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| ShortsNL |
Posted on 24-10-2012 12:38
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Likes
-All on French soil, the way the 100th TDF should be.
-Alpe D'Huez and Ventoux are key mountains in the route, which are my favourites.
-TTT
-Finishes in Paris like normal, luckily some of the rumours were false.
-Saint Malo and Mont St. Michel visited during the race, awesome! 
Do-not-cares
-The small amount of ITT kilometers. It's fun to see the Wiggins fans upset though.
-Lack of epic Pyrenees mountains. I like the Alps better anyway.
Dislikes
-No cobbles in the route, would've been fun.
So yeah, I'm pleased
Edited by ShortsNL on 24-10-2012 12:39
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| ShortsNL |
Posted on 24-10-2012 12:42
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According to Dutch NOS Teletext the Paris stage is at night, and there will be fireworks. |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-10-2012 12:47
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I can't seem to find the stage profiles, anyone finds them?
The Mont-Ventoux stage will be tough, I think. I don't know if they'll climb much before starting it, but with a prior 240km it's going to be tough! |
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| kumazan |
Posted on 24-10-2012 12:54
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Ian Butler wrote:
I can't seem to find the stage profiles, anyone finds them?
The Mont-Ventoux stage will be tough, I think. I don't know if they'll climb much before starting it, but with a prior 240km it's going to be tough!
https://www.letour...neral.html
Only the mountain stages.
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| wackojackohighcliffe |
Posted on 24-10-2012 13:00
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Corsican stages look pretty tame  |
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-10-2012 13:01
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Thanks.
To be honest, on the first view, they look a bit disappointing.. |
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| wicked01 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:16
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Looks like a great route for the 100!
https://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2013/us/...route.html - Profiles and routes
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| Flair |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:28
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Its so flat that if there was another ITT in there you'd say they wanted Sparticus to win. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:42
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Crap route. Really disappointed.
Too few timetrial kilometers, and too few hard mountain stages. Oh wait, we get a hundred "fun" flat stages instead! 
The only road stages I can see major gaps appearing are Alpe d'Huez and Ventoux. Possibly also Le Grand Bornand, if they race it hard from the beginning. Ax-3-Domaines and Semnoz aren't hard enough, as they're all about one climb / one climb plus a too short final ascent.
The Bigorre stage could be fun, but I'll be very surprised if any of the big names risk attacking on the final climb, because of the ridiculously long descent afterwards. I reckon it'll be similar to the Foix / Mur de Peguere stage this year.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:47
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Ax-3-Domaines and Semnoz aren't hard enough, as they're all about one climb / one climb plus a too short final ascent.
To be fair, Ax-3-Domaines has Pailhères before, although it lacks more climbs, it could be enough to see some racing there. And Semnoz is a quite hard, the problem is that the stage is so horribly designed it's not even funny.
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:51
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kumazan wrote:
Pellizotti2 wrote:
Ax-3-Domaines and Semnoz aren't hard enough, as they're all about one climb / one climb plus a too short final ascent.
To be fair, Ax-3-Domaines has Pailhères before, although it lacks more climbs, it could be enough to see some racing there. And Semnoz is a quite hard, the problem is that the stage is so horribly designed it's not even funny.
Hence the "one climb plus a too short final ascent." With the "one climb" being Pailheres. I doubt anyone of the favourites has the guts to try already on Pailheres. At least they didn't when they climbed it two years ago.
And indeed, Semnoz is hard. My point was, as you said, that the stage is overall too easy. There should've been another major climb just before the final one.
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| kumazan |
Posted on 24-10-2012 14:57
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I doubt it as well, mainly because it's the first mountain stage. But you can't really blame the organization for the lack of guts of the riders. In that stage, the terrain is there, I hope we could say the same of the stages to Semnoz or Le Grand-Bornand...
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| Ian Butler |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:17
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The route may not be too promising, let's wait for a judgement until the race really starts, riders can make boring routes very interesting sometimes |
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| Flair |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:24
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Maybe they are trying to make it as unattractive as possible to Contator in hope he doesnt show? I can imagine after the last month they would be quite keen to have a clean winner of thhe tour next yeear. |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:27
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Ian Butler wrote:
The route may not be too promising, let's wait for a judgement until the race really starts, riders can make boring routes very interesting sometimes
Well, there is one positive thing. Wiggins wont defend his title.
Apart from that, I'm just very disappointed.
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| Alakagom |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:36
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Pellizotti2 wrote:
Ian Butler wrote:
The route may not be too promising, let's wait for a judgement until the race really starts, riders can make boring routes very interesting sometimes
Well, there is one positive thing. Wiggins wont defend his title.
Apart from that, I'm just very disappointed.
You're only partly right.
Wiggins will be back in Tour and so ''defend his title'' but will work for Froome.
Wiggins is doing Giro - Tour, while he leads Giro and supports Froome at Tour obviously.
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| maxime86 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:37
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I actually liethis route, but Iam biased because the passright next to my grnd parennts beach house thing. However I'm really happy that there will be a lot of cimbs, also the TTT could make or break a rider's chances which makes the aspect of the route very interesting |
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| Pellizotti2 |
Posted on 24-10-2012 15:56
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Alakagom wrote:
Pellizotti2 wrote:
Well, there is one positive thing. Wiggins wont defend his title.
Apart from that, I'm just very disappointed.
You're only partly right.
Wiggins will be back in Tour and so ''defend his title'' but will work for Froome.
Wiggins is doing Giro - Tour, while he leads Giro and supports Froome at Tour obviously.
My point was that he wont win again, as he wont be leading Sky. 
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| Flair |
Posted on 24-10-2012 16:27
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Although, seeing how everyone is saying there wont be any gaps in the mountains cos they arent hard enough, surely thhat leaves TT as tthe only place to create a gap, which kinda leads to wiggo .... |
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