Originally Posted by climbo
yeah but sprint stages are so boring. I love watching Robbie kick butt in the end but the first 180kms is a yawn-fest usually.
I just thought in past years, there was a lot more mountain climbing stages than what they have this year.
you'll be happier from stage 10 then.....the conspiracy theorist in me thinks that perhaps the TDF organisers put the boring stuff all early this year because some round ball game in Germany was taking attention away from them....just a theory mind, but I'm betting I'm not far off.