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    Tour de France Tour de France 2025 Stage 11: Toulouse – Toulouse (156.8k)

    Don't like that kind of waiting at all. Race was on before the crash and Pog's own inattention to what was going on around him played a significant part in him going down. Continuing racing and ramming home the advantage would have been the right thing to do for his rivals there instead of the...
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    Tour de France Tour de France 2025, Stage 5: Caen – Caen (33.0k, ITT)

    Could it be that the course is just too flat and windy for Vingegaard. Remember reading from the OP that the Tour hasn't seen a TT as flat as this in quite some time. And although he is excellent on hillier terrain, Vingegaard losing more in relation to Pog and Remco on a completely flat one is...
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    Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

    Given how Lenny Martinez has done here France will finally have its next Tour winner.;)
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    Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

    As soon as Romeo got the small initial gap, the DSs of every other rider in the break should have been on their earpieces yelling: Work! Work! Work! Wasting time trying to save something in their legs was the only thing they couldn't allow themselves to do or the stage win was gone. Yet all...
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    Critérium du Dauphiné 2025, June 8 - 15

    Vingegaard outsprinting VDP, even considering the circumstances is just ***.
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d’Italia 2025: Post-Race Rating Poll

    7. Showed the adage that the riders make the race has a lot of truth in it, but also a lot of limitations. Generally, when the terrain allowed, the riders were prepared race, not just wait and save the energy. In case of stage 15, some of them even wanted to race when the route design actively...
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia stage 19 Biella – Champoluc 166km

    Looks like the pre-race worries about this stage being ruined by bad placement right before Finestre stage are being at least partly substantiated. I won't blame riders at all this time, they have wanted to do more than route has allowed for most of the race, so one subpar big stage is not...
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025: Stage-by-stage analysis

    True, but that is something we only find out when the race is underway. It only can have an indirect influence on pre-race expectations - through the nature of conteders on the startlist.
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025: Stage-by-stage analysis

    Most of the difference in perseption between current and 2023 version comes from the differing expectations we had going in. 2023 route was quite good, startlist solid and expectations from fans high as a consequence. In reality, one disappointment followed another and mood soured rapidly...
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    Giro d'Italia Giro D'Italia 2025 Stage 14: Treviso – Nova Gorica/Gorizia (195km)

    Basically they are actively sabotaging their own product with decisions like that. Given that doing the worst possible with terrain available is a running theme with this years route design, it almost looks like Vegni or whoever is at charge of this race in RCS curently is doing this on...
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    Giro d'Italia Giro d'Italia 2025 Stage 6: Potenza – Napoli

    Yep, and also trying save energy where putting in the effort would make rest of the race/stage safer and easier. Like soft pedalling the climb in the Itzulia stage, going into tricky descent with abnormally big group and then starting to push the envelope on it. In todays case this part is...
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    Last World Team to get a World Tour win 2025

    In the lead I think. At least if going by the logic the poll is constructed with. When next currently winless team wins, then Picnic are out.
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    Vuelta a España La Vuelta Femenina 2025 (May 4-10)

    152k mountain stage with 3 serious climbs for women , that's actually nice to see. Almost like modern mens Vuelta queen stage. What would a corresponding mens stage actually look like - 220k + long with 4-5 cat 1 and higher climbs maybe?
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    Tour de Romandie, April 29th - May 4th

    In addition to WT and .Pro level races UAE also hogs together wins in all kinds of smaller .1 and .2 races of which neither Jumbo nor Sky in their heyday cared about. That makes their dominance feel much more suffocating.
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    Liège - Bastogne - Liège 2025, 27th April

    In theory, recreating the Amstel scenario, where Pog goes away early, but remains in touching distance and then a second selection occurs resulting in a small well-working chase group, is probably the most likely way to beat him. The key factor in most of the long solos we have seen in...