Why did the Tour de France directors stop awarding time bonuses on sprint finishes?
From the daily herald: 7/5/08 “The organizer also dropped “time bonuses,” a move designed to help keep riders closer together and lead to tighter stage finishes.” http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=214892 From the USA Today 10/25/07 “Adding further unpredictability, organizers scrapped time bonus awards for the fastest finishers each day and at other fixed points along the route. Without those bonuses, the race could be tighter, more suspenseful and open, especially in the mountains, which often open up large time gaps between riders. “The idea was really to break the classic scenarios,” Tour director Christian Prudhomme said.
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