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Ilnur majka a écrit :Selon vous qui est le colombien qui aime le plus les gros pourcentages? (Atapuma,Chaves,Quintana,Lopez)

pascualito a écrit :Gilbert qui dans une interview a dit qu'il avait attaqué hier parce qu'il se faisait chier, malheureusement ce n'est pas la première fois cette saison que j'entends ce genre de discours. :S

Athanaze a écrit :Thierry Roland

Back in 2012, Galician former pro Ezequiel Mosquera recounted to the Faro de Vigo newspaper that "This climb has a segment of 300 metres which is more than tough, it's impossible." Mosquera recounted that the first riders to tackle the climb was a local club, the CC Noia in the early 1990s, using a 39x23 gear. However "most of them went up on foot - on foot and backwards, because it was impossible to go up walking forwards!"

"If you drive up it, stay in first gear all the way," the owner of the hotel where Cyclingnews is staying sternly warns, and, indeed, from the moment the route swings left onto the climb proper near a massive dam and power station, the gradient instantly stiffens to around 15 percent. Passing a gradient sign saying '30 percent' warns of what is in store. Other signs, too, state that any heavy vehicles are categorically banned from driving either up or down the slope.