The bad news of the day: once one of the world's most important stage races, Tour de Suisse will be shortened from 8 to 5 stages next year and all of them will be circuits. 😢🇨🇭 Due to financial problems. Well if Switzerland has those then the rest of us, we are truly f@cked.
From 17th to 21st June 2026 the Tour de Suisse will take place over five days, two stages will be raced daily – one each for men and women – starting and finishing in the same place➡️ 10 Stages, 5 Days, 2 Races, 1 Experience💯🚴 . Read more➡️ https://t.co/Lz4yF9AI9u
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@MrVrhgyiB Is he good on crit races? Ah silly me, I know what you mean now hahah, took me a while
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@faustocoppi60 Good summary with one correction. Switzerland is sitting on a huge pile of money. But they are like Mr. Burns: they hate to enjoy it. So they prefer to buy high class stocks and bonds all over the world to having 8 exciting cycling days 😉.
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@faustocoppi60 “One of the world’s most important stage races”?! Ok. In your head, maybe. I for one, never pay any attention to this race whatsoever.
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@faustocoppi60 Actually they are rich because they know how to spend their money. But yeah massive blow for cycling fans.
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@faustocoppi60 Government funding for such events is very little… they rely on a lot of private sponsors, and those do struggle under the US taxes… not the only sporting event to struggle in Switzerland… there are also quite a lot of events.
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@faustocoppi60 For the men, it doesn't seem to have the same status as a warmup for TdF as it did back in the Jan Ullrich days. When Jan would race TdS in préparation for the TdF and Armstrong would race the Dauphiné. The women's race has always been a side-show. Too bad the Swiss govt doesn't
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@faustocoppi60 Cycling is sport n° how much there ? I could imagine throwing trunks there being more important. 😁
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@faustocoppi60 Get used to it. The global economy is being rocked by the very stable genius in Washington DC.
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@faustocoppi60 Stupid. The Tour de Suisse is better than the Vuelta. Vuelta and Suisse - each two weeks.
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@faustocoppi60 Tu seguro que estás jodido, 0 años cotizados y viviendo de la paguita de Israel.
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