Deutschland Tour 2025 (August 20-24)

[Cycling111]

(Moderator's note: The intended opening post of the thread is post #32. There were a bunch of previous posts in the Lesser known races thread that I have moved to here)

The prologue of Deutschland has 3 km?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

The prologue of Deutschland has 3 km?

And yet you could consider it the queen stage if you wanted to be contrarian.

John Degenkolb makes his comeback (as well as Nikias Arndt after an even longer break) and there are a lot of climbers using this race for training and/or part of their farewell tour or something.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Big time by Zijlaard as expected

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Haller has replaced Zijlaard at the top.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Not bad by Politt, +4s

 

[RedheadDane]

A wild Zabel spotted.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

A wild Zabel spotted.

Not the most interesting day to spend in the race director‘s car considering it won‘t drive.

 

[RedheadDane]

Commentator correcting himself when he referred to Thomas as a "Tour de France stage winner". Well... it's technically correct.

Not the most interesting day to spend in the race director‘s car considering it won‘t drive.

Why are they even sitting in the car?

 

[RedheadDane]

Wærenskjold smashes it!

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Smashing time by Wærenskjold. Good chance Zijlaard loses his 100% trackrecord of top-5s in prologues since joining Tudor in 2023 today (he's done six before today).

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Wærenskjold smashes it!

Yet he wasn‘t shown on camera, shameful TV direction

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Not a great ride by Brennan

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Not a great ride by Brennan

Was only 15th in the Romandie prologue too, evidently this doesn't suit him as much as you would expect.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Brennan tanked a bit. Running out of power for the season perhaps.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Don't know why they were talking up Brennan, didn't do anything in Romandie, these weird prologues seem to be very specialised. Sam Watson should do well though.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

What about climber Groves?

 

[yaco]

What about climber Groves?

He can go very well.

 

[RedheadDane]

Watson close, but not close enough.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Good to see the organisers completely forget about the 'race being a tourism advert' aspect of cycling and just having the prologue around a dodgy looking industrial plant with some gas works

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Watson just misses out

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Good to see the organisers completely forget about the 'race being a tourism advert' aspect of cycling and just having the prologue around a dodgy looking industrial plant with some gas works

How many prologues have been held at a world heritage site like today‘s?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Wout 5th, +3s

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Not great by Milan, Waerenskjold wins

 

[RedheadDane]

Wærenskjold with a new spin on the term "victory lap".

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Really disappointing time for Milan, clearly not in form at all right now. Should make for much more unpredictable sprints.