I really disagree. The worst Tour in recent memory was 2016, from my point of view. Most of the Froome years were boring, let alone the Armstrong years. Alaphilippe delivered an epic battle and the race remained open until the end. Really glad that the focus on time trialists is disappearing.
I couldn't disagree more in this point. TT have always been a key part in GT and have made the GT editions all that more entertaining because climbers need to recover much more time on what they are good at, climbs.
Now the problem is that time trials at the moment are a joke (really? 25 km?), we go back 25 years ago and time trials were almost 60 km long, now that's how time trials should look like. Another problem (this one bigger) is that everything is so calculated that riders are basically forgetting about how to ride, they just look at their potentiometer and go from there. They should be removed and so should be communications via earwig, directors suck nowadays and are making races all that much boring. Let riders take decisions and improvise, and if they don't know what to do, go to the car and talk with the director.
If the winner is great at time trials and good enough at climbs to survive the attacks of the great climbers then he deserves to win the GT, and if the winner is the best at both (like Froome), then nothing to do... which brings us to super teams. They are an issue but it's hard to solve, the only thing I could think of is having less riders per team (which was already done).
Anyways this time around Ineos didn't win because they had a great team, one can easily argue that Jumbo Visma was the strongest team.
Alaphilippe put a battle, but we did see that when teams wanted to make it tough on him, he just couldn't keep up.
Means nothing to me that there are 4 guys within 1 minute if none of them is even going to try an attack in a 59 km stage, can't believe someone is ok with what happened yesterday.
Can like (or believe) more or less Froome, but when he attacked he left no prisoners.
Anyways, it's not that I had high hopes for the Tour this year anyways, the only good think I can take out of it is that no british riders won this time.
Giro has been the best of the 3 GT for a long time and it doesn't look like it's going to change.