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Yeah but I think of a Grand Tour as a sort of Olympics of cycling: it tests every skill and there are opportunities for every sort of rider. From time trialists to climbers to one-day specialists. And the stages should reflect that. There are crashes on every type of stage and arguably the mass crashes at the end of sprint stages are much more destructive. The stage itself was 100k shorter, featured less than half the amount of pave and didn't go through the most difficult sections. The difficulty cane more from the conditions: few crashes across the pave but most occuring at the turns, either into the section or during it, due to the looseness of the soil.
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I don't know how true it is, but the point was made (by Millar I think) that the majority of the field don't ride P-R.
Like throwing a rally stage into a GP, I suppose.