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Would you prefer to keep the minimum for a qualifying run to it's current 3 miles or or 30 minutes? Or ease it back to 2mi or 20min? Either is fine. View Results. Login required to started new threads Login required to post replies. Whats the difference in a Prologue and a time trial Quote Reply. Post 1 of 5 views. Detailed pre-race recon can often make the difference between winning and losing. I can vividly remember what it used to feel like when I was at my best. Everything felt controlled.
Historically the Tour has used prologues most years since arguably At first a prologue-esque time trial was considered stage 1a, and when that wrapped up the peloton would go back to the start line for a mass-start stage, called 1b. Riders don't like doing two stages in a day, so in the Tour started running the prologue on its own, and by the word "prologue" began appearing in place of a stage number.
If the prologue was Saturday, then stage 1 was Sunday. Some anomalies: two years ago in a fit of nostalgia the Tour started with a normal road stage. This was in Brittany, a hotbed of cycling tradition, so the locals didn't mind passing on the prologue gimmick. On a few occasions the Tour has used a longer time trial to open accounts, like in when Lance Armstrong passed Jan Ullrich on the road -- a rather embarassing way to start a Tour.
Anyway, if the stage cracks 10km, the Tour will call it a time trial and give it a stage number. And then there was , when the Tour used a 1km "preface" won by sprinter Guido Bontempi. Thankfully that was a one-time experiment. One simple reason for a prologue is to make it possible to hand out jerseys.
Often the Tour starts with flat stages, at the end of which riders finishing in a big bunch are all given the same finishing time. Since the yellow jersey is given to the guy with the fastest accumulated time, the Tour would have to use tie-breaking rules to award the famed yellow jersey, the maillot jaune. Not the dignified process the maillot jaune deserves, and without a prologue, these time ties could go on for several days. With a prologue, a nice and basically inconsequential order is established.
Also, since it's a time trial, the stage and first yellow jersey is often won by a non-sprinter, which is nice since the sprinters get most of the spoils for the next several stages.
Share the love, they say. Throughout the Tour cities are chosen to host a stage start or finish not randomly but because they paid the Tour de France for the honor.
The Tour is not government-run, it's a privately owned event currently in the hands of the esteemed Amaury Sports Organization, or ASO and it needs to pay all of its bills.
ASO raise revenue by advertising, selling broadcasting rights, hosting VIP events, and selling stage starts and finishes.
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