Canadian Classics 2025

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Hats off to Mister Julian. What a performance, such a smart ride, this is what we need more. Riders not afraid to attack Pogacar, try to antecipate his move. No one is unbeatable!
I hope to see Ala back to his best, he is such a lovely character and rider.
When the race is harder, UAE will just kill the race for Pogacar to attack like last year. They are plenty strong to do that if they want. They tried that tactic in Quebec last year, but the race is just too easy, so they mixed it up this year which was fine. But you could tell Pogacar didn't really care that much about today, he wants to test himself in two days and win
 
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When the race is harder, UAE will just kill the race for Pogacar to attack like last year. They are plenty strong to do that if they want. They tried that tactic in Quebec last year, but the race is just too easy, so they mixed it up this year which was fine. But you could tell Pogacar didn't really care that much about today, he wants to test himself in two days and win


I wouldn't even say in two days; the important thing is the World Championships. And this year includes the time trial, unlike last year, so I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't attack from so far in Montreal as he did last year.
 
But you could tell Pogacar didn't really care that much about today, he wants to test himself in two days and win
This is cope. He got his team to do the typical insane leadout with 13km to go despite having a man out front, attacked hard, got pulled back but then chased hard. If he didn't care he wouldn't have burned his entire team in chasing the front group.

He realised on the last lap that McNulty wasn't taking the gap down below 20s, got annoyed nobody was helping, and grenaded the chase group.

I think Pogacar was strong, but the climb isn't hard enough to bring back 20s+. He (and UAE) bottled it tactically.
 
This is cope. He got his team to do the typical insane leadout with 13km to go despite having a man out front, attacked hard, got pulled back but then chased hard. If he didn't care he wouldn't have burned his entire team in chasing the front group.

He realised on the last lap that McNulty wasn't taking the gap down below 20s, got annoyed nobody was helping, and grenaded the chase group.

I think Pogacar was strong, but the climb isn't hard enough to bring back 20s+. He (and UAE) bottled it tactically.
It's not. If Pogacar really cared about this race, they would have raced it differently. They didn't because Montreal is the real goal and the race that suits him the best and way more representative of his current level
 
It's not. If Pogacar really cared about this race, they would have raced it differently. They didn't because Montreal is the real goal and the race that suits him the best and way more representative of his current level

How would they have raced it then? Control it and then hammer it in the end like last year? Also didn't work out. Of course he cares about this race, he said it last year I think, it's one of those races he hasn't won yet so he wants to, but it doesn't suit him perfectly. UAE started off fine, making it hard with attacks, but had the wrong guys in the front group and probably didn't think other teams would let the gap go out so much.

Neither Quebec or Montreal is a big goal ofc, he's here to prep Worlds, like most top riders, that doesn't mean they don't care.
 
Alaphilippe is not a serious bike rider anymore. Just retire already. Probably thinks he can race Pogi 1 on 1 later in the race.
Alaphilippe seems to have accidentally got into a big move a bit too early and doesn't know what to do.
Alaphilippe is so unbelievably dumb. This finish is the most perfect finish for him.
He's doing exactly the opposite isn't he? If he pulls this move has a good chance to stay away until Pogi attacks across. If he doesn't pull Jumbo and Ef catch the move, Posi and WvA attack and this smartass finishes 40th or something like that.
Tactical masterclass from Alaphilippe.
 
In any case, UAE made a mistake. If Sivakov, not Narvaez, is in the lead group, Politt and Sivakov shouldn´t be distance the group with Alaphilippe in it. It was obvious that Sivakov was going to lose in a sprint, it would have been different if Narvaez had been in front.
 
Jayco stuffed up the final 40kms of the break. They should have Schmid into the late break, who would have competitive in the final, instead of him waiting for Bling who could rely on the peleton to bring it back for a sprint. A big fail.
 

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