Originally Posted by deadly downtube
how bout protesting a ridiculously long and pointless flat stage? why not make true sprinter stages and just start the tour with a bunch of short, circuit type races? why send the sprinters 240 km?
Interesting idea. As it stands the TDF GC seems heavily in favor of climbers. Would it make more sense to have several 80-100km flat stages in the mix to favor the sprinters.