The 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2024 Tour de France will include 32.2 kilometres of gravel on stage 9 around Troyes on Sunday, July 7, and while 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:gravel racing has be🎀come hug♛ely popular in the cycling world, that 🐎passion hasn't quite been kindled amongst the top 🐠Grand Tour teams.
There were echos of the controversy surrounding the inclusion 🤡of ღParis-Roubaix-like cobbled roads in the Tour from last year, and after the route revelation on Wednesday, the topic drew a measure of ire from Jumbo-Visma CEO Richard Plugge, who otherwise praised the varied route where his team will attempt to deliver a third൩ Tour de France victory for Jonas Vingega🐼ard.
🍷"It's an incredibly challenging course from the first metre," Plugge said. "I think it is a bit unnecessary [to include gravel]. It increaseꦆs the chance of bad luck. We want the fight to be as fair as possible. A ride like this, in my opinion, does not contribute to that."
Gravel roads were the norm in the early days of the Tour de France but equipment has evolved to b♓e more compatible with fast, paved surfaces and Grand Tour riders do not regularly race on gravel.
"It will be a new experience as it will be the first time I ride on gravel during a race," Vingegaard said. "It's a day where you can lose more than you can gain. We will have to make do with 🔯the choice of the course builders."
Grand Tours have begun to add sections of gravel roads over the past 15 years, with the first major sections coming in the 2010 Giro d'Italia, where parts of the route used t๊hese days in Strade Bianche were included on stage 7. The day turned into a near-di😼saster as heavy rain turned the sections into mud.&🎃nbsp;
Cadel Evans parlayed his mountain biking skills into the stage win, finishing with his rainbow jersey barely visible under the Tuscan dirt. However, even he wasn't sure if the risk of bad luck was worth it, calling the stage "168澳洲5最新开奖结果:like taki♐ng an F1 car off-roꦜad for a rally".
More recently, the Giro d'Italia incl✱uded 35.2km of﷽ gravel on a similar stage in 2021 wᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhere Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep) lost more than two minutes to eventual overall champion Egan Bernal (Ineos).
The Tour de Franc✤e Femmes included only 12.9km of grav𓃲el in 2022 on stage 4 from Troyes to Bar-sur-Aube and it was enough to cause♔ chaos and punctures, although most of the main favourites finished together.
Evenepoel's team bo🅺ss Patrick Lefevere, when asked about the stage in next year's Tour de France replied, "That's like asking me what I think about cobblestones in the Tour... I'm not a fan of it."
The Tour de France organisers had to defend the inclusion of cobblestones in the Tour de France after chaotic stages in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022. On stage 5 in the 2022 edition, the unpaved surface continued to wreak havoc on the GC leaders as Primož Roglič crashed in one of the sectors and dislocated his shoulder.
