2025 Tour of the Alps (April 21-25)

[Samu Cuenca]

Ciccone could raise his glasses to a job well done after the first stage, but will he be paying for that effort later today?


Stage 2: Mezzolombardo - Sterzing/Ratschings-Vipiteno/Racines, 178 km

The riders will make their way north towards the Austrian border, but they won't be crossing it yet.

The first climb to Petersberg/Monte San Pietro is the 2 km on profile above plus 800 m at 7%, followed by the stretch between km 4 and 20 on the profile below. In total, it's 19 km at around 6% avg.

Then we got this short climb (shown as a descent here) before an actual descent to Ponte Nova/Birchabruck.

Then the last 6.8 km on this profile of Obergummer/San Valentino di Soprano (yes we got both a mezzo and a soprano on this stage).

The climb to Kastelruth/Castelrotto is this one until 9 km from the top

There are some more climbing before the riders reach Sterzing/Vipiteno for the first time, but nothing major. Then they'll ride the climb to Obertelfes/Telves di Sopra twice during the last 30 km. 10 km remain after the final crossing.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

We got a breakaway going with Miholjević, Bouwman and Lukas Meiler of Vorarlberg, who are getting close to the top of the first climb. The gap is reported to be around 2:45, so in reality it could be anywhere between 12 seconds and 14 years.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

4:30, they're saying now. I'm surprised neither of the Bais brothers are in the break, but they might be saving their legs for a 1-2 in the final.

 

[pastronef]

nice helicopter shot on Seixas having a wee pushed by a teammate

 

[yaco]

Puccio chute! Abandon.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Tiberi DNF.

 

[search]

Tiberi DNF.

was he in the crash or just bad? Caruso had to wait for him yesterday already

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

was he in the crash or just bad? Caruso had to wait for him yesterday already

I don't think he was in the crash, but I have to admit I only head he abandoned and didn't see it, as I am just having the race on as background noise more or less atm.

 

[danielzu]

Its an illness foe Tiberi (gastrointestinal)

 

[Remy55]

Who makes this finish? There is an 90 degree turn like 10 meters after the finish line

 

[search]

Who makes this finish? There is an 90 degree turn like 10 meters after the finish line

looks more like 5m to me

but maybe they'll open the barriers for the finish to allow them going straight. I don't think it's the end of the road.

 

[Remy55]

not so sure about that, Sterzing's main shopping area starts right there

 

[Rackham]

Who makes this finish? There is an 90 degree turn like 10 meters after the finish line

They'll probably move the barriers that are straight ahead for the actual finish.

 

[Brullnux]

Weird riding from Decathlon

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The climb is making more of a difference that I thought it would, but it will possibly/probably still come back together after the top.

 

[Berniece]

Quite the gap Storer has, if they don't work together he's gone. Everyone is looking at Ciccone

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Decent gap for Storer here, and AG2R may be better off not catching him rather than handing more time bonuses to Ciccone.

 

[Brullnux]

Decathlon totally butchered that, Storer has a decent chance now

 

[pastronef]

great attack by Storer! go go!

 

[Filippo_3467]

Hindley so stupid. Never start a decent behind Gall. That dude can't ride his bike.

 

[Brullnux]

Seixas is a very good descender

 

[Netserk]

Gall doing Gall things.

A bit weird how the pair rode on the climb.

 

[Samamba]

Seixas is a very good descender

Sure but he's just dropping his own teammate, who ofc can't descent but still

 

[Brullnux]

Sure but he's just dropping his own teammate, who ofc can't descent but still

There's been absolutely zero logic to what they've been doing today so I have stopped trying to find it and decided to just enjoy the ride.

 

[Samamba]

Riccitello disappeared?