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Perhaps had to wait until the Tour of Flanders was completed but couldn’t wait until weekend given weather closing in? It’s going to be cold in the mountains.
Makes sense. I count just 3 stages for the pure sprintersEl Tel of Ealing wrote:It was originally planned to start in Utrecht with the first 3 stages in The Netherlands over the opening weekend,
This got cancelled with 18 Spanish stages comprising The Tour.The loss of flat stages makes it very climbing biased.