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Acliff in reply to @tbc

One way of making them stay is to have a prestigious sprint stage near the end of the tour like the Champs Élysées.

Brutal back to back mountain stages in horrible weather where they might fail to make the time cut and a TT probably doesn’t sound that appealing to a sprinter.

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hippy in reply to @Acliff

It's not just sprinters either. In his GCN doco, Boardman said he had an agreement to only stay for 10 stages of the TDF so he could go for the win in the prologue and then bugger off to concentrate on the Worlds or something.

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andyp in reply to @hippy

That was in 1994, no? He was a neo-pro, so normal for them to not finish the Tour and drop out after ten day or so. The Worlds were much earlier in the year then too (in fact I think it was the last year they were in August).

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