Presumably you'd like all climbing removed from the Tour, Matt. After all, if you go up a mountain, you have to come down. Or perhaps you'd like them to be bussed down every descent to start again at the bottom, with a complicated system of recording times. That would make for great viewing.
If you dont like it, Matt, you should watch bowls instead.
Why do you say that Flatus? Has anyone suggested removing all the descents? Why do you and LWB use this silly, willy-waving exaggeration. What I have heard is the following:
- a number of riders objecting to the ONE tricksy descent*. Supported by some very serious injuries to those riders.
- many (including myself) suggesting that a few hay-bales on the prologue course would have mitigated the (totally man-made) hazrards that led to broken bones and numerous retirements from the race.
Meanwhile, on planet YACF, LWAB thinks that purpose-built F1-style circuits are being proposed, another has commented on the loss of the entire Spring Classics season, and you're suggesting taking out all the mountains!
*I'm totally on the fence about removing that descent. But the point is that if it's an outlier in terms of rider safety, it has to be
worth looking at. Unless you subscribe to the view that riders should man-up and entertain us, and their safety is of no concern. Easy to say for an armchair gladiator.