
First a cynic attempt by China to let us forget the protests in Hong Kong with a race in Shenzhen, just across the border. And lots of money. Money talks after all. A 38 km lap done 4 times. An intermediate before the mountain, the mountain 7 4 4 4 HC obviously, then back to the finish. After the first lap 1 sprint, after lap 2 3, after lap 3 5 sprints. Classified as hilly, but with 21 km flat after the downhill a sprint possible too. 9 riders, all get a single room in the Hotel a bit south of the start, since we don't want to make free promotion, I'll refrain from saying the name. In addition to that I actually managed to already forget it.

A middle mountain stage in Malaysia. First 2 laps in Medan, then we go up towards the Cameron Highlands, but we stop at something called Blue Valley, even if there seem to be almost no houses but lots ricefields there. The climb is max 5. Sprinters with flat and a good team might make it to the top, last km is +1. Okay, the Donkey admits that RKL cheated. There definitely are 2 km at more than 6 right at the start, 8 8 most likely. But after that the climb seems to be rather regular and never over 5%, had 2 or 3 6 in there, but looking at the map and the km before and after pretty confident that the road in those cases is much more regular than the raw data. 100 meters at 20% followed by 200 meters downhill at 15% then up again... then up again, but slightly. No no, that's most likely a pretty regular climb. For classics, but as I said, sprinters with flat, and 2 strong classics can possibly do it. If they like the challenge. 128 km, 46 km mintact, from the start of the climb.