Originally Posted by chasm54

You really haven't a clue, have you? Out of 11 stages we've had a TTT and an ITT, two mountain stages and two more that were lumpy enough to prevent the sprinters from contesting the finsh. So in fact we have had less than 50% sprint stages in the first 11 days riding.

Plus, your argument makes no sense. If they concentrated more sprint stages in the early part of the race there would be less chance of any GC contenders establishing a lead. So if what you want is suspense into the last week, you should be arguing for more sprint stages in the first two weeks, not fewer.