Gipfelstuermer wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 3:55 pm
IDF wrote: ↑Sun May 26, 2024 12:55 pm
But for 1-week tours like Suisse,Dauphiné... insane. They are treated like races on parallel program..
As said RACP/Quick in previous posts, some guys are not interested by 1day races, but only for tours, could be nice to have more of these, with more diversity and at least 3 editions. Especially considering the higher number of players.
Insane?? Dauphine afternoon last year had 7 teams. Seven. Let's see how TdS afternoon will be now... I am normally quite optimistic about participation, but even with higher numbers now... I doubt it will be a number justifying having both in parallel in the afternoon.
And if you are not interested in one day races, it's ok for course. Your decision. But those who like one day races also have the right to have a calendar so that one day races - more often than not - can happen with good participation. If you like one day races, the time during GTs is tough... so at least in between there should be a few good days for one day races.
1) So with 3 editions, you can put one of these two tours (which concern the same kind of riders, so not really a problem for climber teams...) with 1 afternoon edition. For example : 9-14-19 and the other 10(11)-18-22. => 2 choices for morning guys, one for afternoon, 2 for late afternoon, 1 for evening.
And picking only the lowest number of all "periods" in a day is a bit funny. Look the evening, the afternoon etc.
2) And I know that there are a lot of guys who like stats, it could be nice to see if tours have a real effect, increasingly or decreasingly about the participation.
3) And well, adding tours could add diversity about riders. It's been a long time since we didn't see a tour for leupold or even for TT riders, february?
We have only few leupold (only 3-4), few tt riders...