For sure no sorry needed, and maybe I should say sorry, because we are in Paris Nice now so I mixed up the Tirreno and PN.
My text does not apply anyway now.
I searched a bit, and it must be in season 12 as you already mentioned now, Ophiuko.
But I'm confused, about the text and about the dates.
Cabrasverdes wrote his text on 20 september, and stage 5 Tirreno was on 22 september.
And I see that there was nothing written about a possible bug in the English topic season 12.
Maybe he refers to stage 1 Tirreno or stage 2 Tirreno, the only stages that did not start with a flat section.
Or maybe he mixed up Paris Nice and the Tirreno ( I know that can happen to the best, hahaha ),
so I will post the stages of PN and TIR of season 12, maybe that is helpfull for someone who can unravel this (to me) mystery.
Paris Nice season 12 ;
stage 1 = mountain TT 10km
stage 2 = FMMFF
stage 3 = FHFM^M^
stage 4 = FFFFH
stage 5 = FFFHF
Tirreno season 12 ;
stage 1 = HHFFF
stage 2 = FFFFF
stage 3 = HHHHH
stage 4 = FFFHM
stage 5 = FF^FFM --> nothing wrong with this stage, because otherwise I would have mentioned it in my post.
This post was my only post* of a Tirreno stage, and my cyclist finished 3rd, and he is a top-flatclimber and the stage was a flatclimb.
*=
https://cyclingforfun.org/smf/index.php?topic=665.msg23618#msg23618But like I already mentioned, he must refer to another stage than what he mentioned ( = la ultima etapa de Tirreno ),
because he wrote it on 20 september and stage 5 Tirreno was on 22 september.