The mountain stages are over, and hopefully all that other crazy stuff, so all that's left for the Tour is some individual pain before champagne on the road, and the cobbles of the Champs-Elysées. The sprinters have a very different experience of pain in the mountains, as they try to avoid elimination by the time limit, which is based on some weird calculations depending on the course profile. However, the sprinters can nullify the elimination with tactics of their own. By getting more than 20 percent of the riders in the "autobus" (grupetto in the Giro d'Italia), the group of riders at the back of the race, the sprinters can have a pretty easy mountain stage, taking their time and conserving their energy.
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