Handicapping

[Chislenko]

Is it time to introduce handicapping into pro cycling like in other sports?

Perhaps Tadej should be made to ride with a Justeat / Deliveroo box strapped to his back.

 

[Sharky]

Not sure at the elite level, but the Eddie Soens memorial event is a handicap race. Also there are "Australian pursuit" events.

 

[Pross]

Didn’t they do it in that ridiculous Tour stage where they set people off based on GC standings?

 

[Flite]

Didn’t they do it in that ridiculous Tour stage where they set people off based on GC standings?

I seem to remember that being done at one of the early editions of the women's race - La Course?

 

[gsk82]

Didn’t they do it in that ridiculous Tour stage where they set people off based on GC standings?

In 2018. It was a stage of about 65km to the first ever finish at the col de portet.

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

So the 2017 TDF Femmes final stage was a "mass start" stage and the first rider over the line would win, but the riders started based on the time differences from the day before which finished on the Izoard.

2018 Mens Tour stage to Col du Portet was the "grid start", which did absolutely nothing, as Luke Rowe hooned it from the back to do the first couple of kms of the Peyresourde like he had done previously