With his 71 point lead, Rasmussen should easily bag it.
You forget that it's double up on the last climb of every stage - even though the stage doesn't end there. Thursdays final two climbs will decide it. However, i dont see O.Pireo win there.
Rasmussen will try to take out time on I.Basso and J.Ulrich there, and i think he will take the stage and a little minute on J.Ulrich.
You forget that it's double up on the last climb of every stage
No I didn't. It's only double for 2nd-, 1st- and HC climbs, and that only applies to stage 18 where the last climb is cat. 2 (20 instead of 10 points for the first).
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:45:05 +0200, Morten Reippuert
Knudsen said:
Ewoud Dronkert said:
With his 71 point lead, Rasmussen should easily bag it.
You forget that it's double up on the last climb of every stage - even though the stage doesn't end there. Thursdays final two climbs will decide it. However, i dont see O.Pireo win there.
Rasmussen will try to take out time on I.Basso and J.Ulrich there, and i think he will take the stage and a little minute on J.Ulrich.
It's a good thing for the viewers. Ras must go, so Basso and Ullrich must go, which means Armstrong will go.
I expected stage 15 to be the big blow up but I think we'll have a couple more exciting days before it's over.
With his 71 point lead, Rasmussen should easily bag it.
It's been enjoyable watching the mountains classification have so much GC effect in both the Giro and the Tour this year. I have to go back to Hinault's years to remember a time when the MaP was anything but a sideshow.
You forget that it's double up on the last climb of every stage
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No I didn't. It's only double for 2nd-, 1st- and HC climbs, and that only applies to stage 18 where the last climb is cat. 2 (20 instead of 10 points for the first).