General News Thread

[tobydawq]

I'm confused, are you talking about Het Volk?

No, that's the old name of a newspaper.

 

[Netserk]

O Gran Camino 2025 route, more detailed maps will be published tomorrow. First stage is in Portugal.

Beautiful route.

 

[Netserk]

Notice that the main climb in the last stage is the descent of the last climb in the Padrón stage in last year's Vuelta. It's not steep.

O Gran Camiño 2025, stage 5

165.0 km, +2748 m. Bike ride in Betanzos, Galicia

ridewithgps.com

 

[Tricycle Rider]

O Gran Camino 2025 route, more detailed maps will be published tomorrow. First stage is in Portugal.

Beautiful route.

The start list is very sparse right now because it's still early, but Magnus Cort is already slated to ride so I'll have to watch.

 

[Netserk]

The start list is very sparse right now because it's still early, but Magnus Cort is already slated to ride so I'll have to watch.

Unfortunately for him, stage 4 is too hard for him to contend.

O Gran Camiño 2025, stage 4

141.0 km, +2999 m. Bike ride in Puebla de Brollón, Galicia

ridewithgps.com

 

[Squire]

Looks like a very good route for a five day race.

 

[Berniece]

No, that's the old name of a newspaper.

As far as I know they didn’t change names

 

[E_F_]

As far as I know they didn’t change names

Well Het Volk doesn't exist anymore.

 

[Berniece]

Well Het Volk doesn't exist anymore.

I meant from Het Nieuwsblad to Nieuwsblad, so it's weird to change the name of the race to since you are cutting of a part of your brand.

 

[E_F_]

I meant from Het Nieuwsblad to Nieuwsblad, so it's weird to change the name of the race to since you are cutting of a part of your brand.

Oh yeah. You're right. Sorry about that.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Part of the Montirolo to be baptized as the Recta Contador
Read about in Italiano:

Giro d'Italia 2025, durante l'ascesa al Mortirolo si percorrerà la "Recta Contador": al campione spagnolo verrà intitolato un tratto della mitica salita

Nomi mitici per identificare una mitica salita: dopo la "Cima Pantani", sul Mortirolo, arriva la "Recta Contador", durissima "deviazione" che verrà affrontata durante il #Giro2025.

cyclingpro.net

 

[YavorD]

Part of the Montirolo to be baptized as the Recta Contador
Read about in Italiano:

Giro d'Italia 2025, durante l'ascesa al Mortirolo si percorrerà la "Recta Contador": al campione spagnolo verrà intitolato un tratto della mitica salita

Nomi mitici per identificare una mitica salita: dopo la "Cima Pantani", sul Mortirolo, arriva la "Recta Contador", durissima "deviazione" che verrà affrontata durante il #Giro2025.

cyclingpro.net

So are they gonna use it in the Giro or "depending on road repairs" as the translation doesn't seem very clear?

 

[Rob5091]

All the important points for the race to be a WT team after this year on the Inner Ring blog -

https://inrng.com/2025/01/uci-points-rankings-2025/

 

[Netserk]

Rumours of the Itzulia route:

Vitoria-Gasteiz (ITT)
Besain? > Markina-Xemein
Zarautz? > ???
Pamplona > Lodosa
Orduña > Gernika
Eibar > Eibar

 

[Red Rick]

Rumours of the Itzulia route:

Vitoria-Gasteiz (ITT)
Besain? > Markina-Xemein
Zarautz? > ???
Pamplona > Lodosa
Orduña > Gernika
Eibar > Eibar

Please don't tell me that would be the only GC stage

 

[Netserk]

Gernika could feature Paresi 20 km from the finish.

Or Balcón de Bizkaia 15 km from the finish.

 

[Netserk]

And it's almost always possible to find some 600m 11% goat tracks.

 

[RobertCrawley]

Heartbreaking.

Italian Continental racer Sara Piffer, 19, dies in training crash

Mendelspeck rider reportedly struck by the driver of a vehicle while riding in Trentino region

www.cyclingnews.com

Sara Piffer, an Italian racer with Continental team Mendelspeck, has died during a training ride on Friday morning in the northern Trentino region of her country when she was reportedly hit by the driver of a vehicle. She was 19.

Piffer was training on a minor road between the localities of Mezzocorona and Mezzolombardo when the incident happened. Attempts were made to save her life on the spot and she was subsequently evacuated by a hospital helicopter, but it was to no avail.

Her brother, an amateur racer who was out training with her was also caught up in the crash but only suffered minor injuries, according to reports in the Italian press.

 

[JR1012]

Since there isn't much going on in the track cycling forum I will post this here.

Several track cyclist of the german male team (Benjamin Boos, Tobias Buck-Gramcko, Bruno Kessler, Moritz Augenstein, Louis Gentzik and Max-David Briesewere) were injured after a car hit them. No life threatening injuries but many fractures.

The car driver, 89 years old, didn't saw them and crashed right into them.

https://www.rad-net.de/ajax.aspx/content/e6e24c40-413f-4e65-8cb4-deca2bd1c19b.html

German news:

View: https://youtu.be/C_AO7xeRNpw?feature=shared&t=918

 

[Tim Cahill]

Don't know who has been following but they are currently kicking the absolute sh*t out of each other in Goma on the eastern Congolese/Rwandan border with real danger of it spilling over into a wider regional conflict.

Posting because it's the Tour of Rwanda next month and the World Championships this year, the UCI haven't commented yet but this will surely put the races into serious doubt. Rwanda is not a big country, Kigali about 100km away as the crow flies.

TL'DR Rwandan backed rebels captured DRC city, diplomatic relations severed.

DR Congo's M23 conflict: What is the fighting about and is Rwanda involved?

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

www.bbc.co.uk

https://twitter.com/x/status/1883790271042797892

 

[AmRacer]

Can UCI champs wear their band on civilian clothing?
I see one at my hotel but fail to recognise who it is.

 

[RedheadDane]

Can UCI champs wear their band on civilian clothing?
I see one at my hotel but fail to recognise who it is.

Pretty sure the UCI don't get a say in the matter outside of races.

 

[AmRacer]

Pretty sure the UCI don't get a say in the matter outside of races.

I must ask if I see him again at the hotel.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Don't know who has been following but they are currently kicking the absolute sh*t out of each other in Goma on the eastern Congolese/Rwandan border with real danger of it spilling over into a wider regional conflict.

Posting because it's the Tour of Rwanda next month and the World Championships this year, the UCI haven't commented yet but this will surely put the races into serious doubt. Rwanda is not a big country, Kigali about 100km away as the crow flies.

TL'DR Rwandan backed rebels captured DRC city, diplomatic relations severed.

DR Congo's M23 conflict: What is the fighting about and is Rwanda involved?

M23 rebels have made rapid advances in the latest bout of conflict that has long-dogged the mineral-rich east.

www.bbc.co.uk

https://twitter.com/x/status/1883790271042797892

That M23 thing is part of a larger conflict which has been going on for decades.
Not that it makes it any better for the poor people involved, but I doubt that it's going to have any consequences for the planned cycling events in Rwanda.

 

[zlev11]

Dauphine route is out https://www.criterium-du-dauphine.fr/en/news/2025/promises-to-keep-and-scores-to-settle/17177

i think there might actually be some kind of op to make bad routes and boring races or something. what the hell is this? are the Saudis sabotaging routes somehow? i dont see how anyone can even go to this race as Tour prep. they'll end up undertrained.