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The last one was in 1985. The riders hated split stages as they inevitably led to much longer days, more faffing around doing nothing, more media obligations, and so on.
I love this famous shot of the Badger from his first Tour in 1978, leading the riders' protest during Stage 12A into Valence d'Agen:
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When and why did they stop doing split stages?