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quixoticgeek
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25 October, 2023, 09:47:04 pm »
Looks like 8 stages on 7 days. Starting in Rotterdam, ending on Alp de heuz.
Curiously, a short stage and a ITT on the same day on day 2, which is somewhat unusual.
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Cudzoziemiec
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25 October, 2023, 11:32:03 pm »
The Tour of Britain (men) featured the same on whatever stage it was that visited Bristol in, IIRC, 2014. ITT in the morning then stage race in the afternoon. Same course for both.
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MattH
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25 October, 2023, 11:51:41 pm »
In 2014 the ToB did both an ITT and a stage race as the final stage(s) in London.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Tour_of_Britain
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26 October, 2023, 12:01:42 am »
So it was a different year they did it in Bristol. Maybe 2015 or 2013. I still have the "official volunteer" cap!
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MattH
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26 October, 2023, 12:06:39 am »
Digging around, that was 2016.
They did the double thing in London in 2011 too.
I quite like that as a roadside spectator; you get to see each individual, then the whole race several times.
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philip
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26 October, 2023, 12:44:41 am »
Multiple stages in one day was common when Merckx was winning the Tour de France. 1976 even featured 3 stages in one day, probably because it was Bastille Day and lots of towns wanted to celebrate:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_Tour_de_France
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philip
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26 October, 2023, 05:13:45 pm »
Looking at the stage profiles, the flatter stages are also the shorter stages and the longer stages have the mountains. That's different from the recent men's tours which have tended to have shorter mountain stages. I wonder what sort of TV coverage they expect? Perhaps flat stages are difficult to sell to broadcasters?
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