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PREVIEW | Tour of Guangxi 2024 stage 5 - Queen stage battle on the most underrated World Tour climb
CyclingFriday, 18 October 2024 at 14:30
The Tour of Guangxi will be the final World Tour event of the season; taking place between the 15th and 20th of October. The peloton will be in China for what is the final stage-race of the season, but one that will still be important to many. We preview stage 5.
The queen stage. There is absolutely nothing complex on this day, it's an almost pan-flat stage on the fifth day of racing in China which then features an explosive finale that has seen in the past riders crawling over the finish line... Perhaps the most underrated steep climb in the World Tour calendar.
After 160 kilometers of racing the riders will get to the foot of the climb to the Nongla Scenic Spot. The ascent is 4.4 kilometers long and averages around 7%. Not too hard but it's a climb split into two, starting and finishing steep, with a false-flat section in the middle. The final kilometer however is very steep featuring ramps of over 10% all the way to the finish line, an anaerobic effort that perhaps equally suits the puncheurs and climbers.
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Stage 5: Yizhou - Nongla Scenic Spot, 166.3 kilometers
Prediction Tour of Guangxi 2024 stage 5:
*** Pavel Sivakov, Lennert Van Eetvelt
** Oscar Onley, Alexey Lutsenko, Koen Bouwman
* Joseph Blackmore, Quinn Simmons, Tim Wellens
Pick: Oscar Onley
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