Clásica San Sebastián 2025, one day race, August 2

[KZD]

Happy to see Ciccone winning, he has been so unlucky lately.

Christen played it badly, Del Toro is faster than him and he made a big effort coming to the front duo so he should have followed instead of keep pushing it.

Uijtdebroeks back into a decent shape and nice to see Bisiaux up there too.

 

[Brullnux]

Ciccone/Scaroni look ready for Rwanda. Put Conca and Gaffuri in there and Italy will have a veritable super team

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Yeah nice one mate I'll switch it over now

Sorry for not responding before I saw your message.

 

[Cycling111]

Ciccone shipping watts with that flycatcher

Lidl is very strong in classics this year with Pedersen, Skjelmose and Ciccone

 

[nightowl]

Del Toro wasnt gonne beat Ciccone that was obvious how he was at the end. You think that was a winning situation? Del Toro communicated he was empty, CIccone woulda gapped him clearly considering how Torito feelt.

Grande win for Ciccone. 2 at Liege 1. in Sebastian, I like that after his misshaps in the Giro.

2v1 and almost at the top of the last climb is a very good situation. Ciccone wouldn’t have known Del Toro was that empty, so so if the two UAE guys had sat on him and rolled attacks on the flat there’s a good chance they win. As it was Christen attacked after having just bridged, which was never going to work, and in doing so exposed Del Toro and gave Ciccone a launchpad to go on and win.

 

[Netserk]

I don't know how this can be interpreted in a non-hostile way.

If you think that colloquial term implies (the threat of) violence, then it's simply a skill issue on your behalf.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Third in Lombardia to Pogacar and Evenepoel, second in Liège to Pogacar, and the win in San Sebastian, all in the same year. Ciccone is probably the best non-alien when it comes to climby classics right now.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Can we blame the fraud Sola for not preparing Del Toro well for this race?
Last Italian Donostia podium was Rebellin in 2008, about time.

 

[RedheadDane]

Third in Lombardia to Pogacar and Evenepoel, second in Liège to Evenepoel, and the win in San Sebastian, all in the same year.

PEDANTIC ALERT!
Within a year, not 'in the same year'.

(Unless you can predict the result of Lombardia.)

 

[Red Rick]

Third in Lombardia to Pogacar and Evenepoel, second in Liège to Evenepoel, and the win in San Sebastian, all in the same year. Ciccone is probably the best non-alien when it comes to climby classics right now.

Climby Italian Pedersen. Even races for Lidl Trek too

 

[postmanhat]

As always at San Sebastian, riders struggling with finding the correct facial expression after a minute of being danced at.

 

[Danskebjerge]

Race finishes that are hard to predict - a nice thing. Need I say more.

 

[Pozzovivo]

Cicco <3

 

[Ancalagon]

Third in Lombardia to Pogacar and Evenepoel, second in Liège to Evenepoel, and the win in San Sebastian, all in the same year. Ciccone is probably the best non-alien when it comes to climby classics right now.

Evenepoel finished 59th at Liège this year…

 

[Lequack]

Some pics

 

[Tim Cahill]

Evenepoel finished 59th at Liège this year…

He was first in our hearts.

 

[Brullnux]

Luckily for UAE, Del Toro can go back to beating continental tour riders tomorrow.

 

[Danskebjerge]

To be fair, they didn't film them from the front after the climb. It was quite fair for everyone there.

It didn't look like a problem in the city, true. Still, I've rarely seen them go so close as they did here. The motorbikes do have a role to play in terms of keeping spectators away, but the 2 second rule would still be fine.

 

[Red Rick]

Luckily for UAE, Del Toro can go back to beating continental tour riders tomorrow.

He thought it was a 1.1 race then the radio told him it was CSS halfway the final climb.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Uijtdebroecks bows his head in sadness at the slight loss of prize money as he loses the placement sprint.

He didn't just lose it. He clearly wanted to win it but had no idea of how to go about it.

 

[Hugh Januss]

Another tactical master class from UAE!

 

[RedheadDane]

As always at San Sebastian, riders struggling with finding the correct facial expression after a minute of being danced at.

Danced at? That sounds... threatening.

 

[Rob5091]

Chapeau Ciccone, but what happened to the Great Spanish Hope, Ayuso?

 

[Sciatic]

Very surprising and Impressive ride from Powless. Perhaps he is successor to Mollema in always showing well here regardless of performance level in other races.

 

[ice&fire]

He thought it was a 1.1 race then the radio told him it was CSS halfway the final climb.

To put things into perspective, Marc Hirschi was able to win CSS