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Mayhap it is a case of rule no. 5, but the race organiser admitted he got the route wrong, with a third of the field abandoning. Stages like that work as a one-day race, but not as the last road stage in a week long event, let alone a GT. They definitely make for a great spectacle, like some of the daft stages in the Vuelta last year, for example Cuitu Negri, but they also push riders too hard. We may enjoy them acting like dancing bears for our own excitement, grinding up ridiculous inclines, but when the stages get too hard riders resort to nefarious means to conquer them.
Races are generally getting shorter and more forgiving because of that reason, and it may make for duller racing but I'm more comfortable with that than making these riders try to go beyond their physical abilities to win, so at the end of the day only the phenoms (Sagan) and dopers (Nibali) are left standing.
I'm joking about Nibali. Well, just a little