Recent content by Devil's Elbow

Ciccone has also just had a lot of bad luck in the GTs where he targeted a GC. 2021 Giro - crashes on stage 17 while sitting in 6th on GC, DNS the next day 2021 Vuelta - crashes and abandons on stage 16 while in 12th on GC (with quite a few people who took a bunch of time from breakaways and...

Stage win in Pologne, stage win, second and leader jersey points in Burgos, second and fourth in Ain. I've had worse days in this game, just a shame Ciccone got taken out of GC contention (and that Nordhagen continues to have an abysmal maiden pro season).

With Enric Mas missing the rest of the season, he will reach the 3-year anniversary of his most recent win (Emilia 2022). Since then, he has amongst others finished second and fifth in Lombardia, third and sixth at the Vuelta, second and fifth at Itzulia, and third and fifth at Catalunya.

Categorised uphill finish = automatically no 3k rule.

In two minds about this one. On the one hand it's pretty f*cked up that Del Toro can crash his main rival out of GC contention without facing any consequences, on the other hand the way you'd have to make the rules to punish situations like this is a whole other can of worms. Compare for example...

'23 was an outlier. Or at least on paper, not with the way it played out.

Landa belongs with Ayuso/Carapaz. Overall I don't think it's a bad field for a Vuelta at all, if Mas wasn't out it would easily have been above last year's.

The supposed main Vuelta prep event, although there are rather few Vuelta GC riders on the startlist this time round. That being said, this should still be a fairly entertaining race. Broadcast availability is unfortunately rather geographically constrained this time round. Legal options exist...

Anna van der Breggen?

Annemiek van Vleuten?

You are looking at the data for the last 365 days, not 2025 only. You need to set Year to 2025 rather than Current.

Yes, Álvarez belongs with Finn and Pericas there. Kind of forgot about him because I was mainly jogging my memory to go through the main U23 races we've had so far, where he hasn't done much.

It looks like those were actually included in this update. So assuming the next download is on time, it will be entirely San Sebastian + Getxo as far as pro races are concerned.

It also doesn't help that there are very few big talents who might still sign a pro contract for next year. The junior scene has nobody even close to the level of Withen Philipsen and Seixas and the U23 races have featured a lot of riders who already have a pro contract for next year if not this...