Il Lombardia 2025, monument, October 11

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Who will win?

  • You-Know-Who wins again

    Votes: 23 62.2%
  • Remco pulls off a miracle becoming the Harry Potter of cycling

    Votes: 2 5.4%
  • Fed up with PogiGOAT comments, Eddy unretires and beats Teddy

    Votes: 1 2.7%
  • Fausto M. performs Ganda descent for ages and wins the final sprint

    Votes: 6 16.2%
  • Fausto C. resurrects, saves cyclismo and his Lombardy record

    Votes: 4 10.8%
  • Another guy wins/the race is cancelled

    Votes: 1 2.7%

  • Total voters
    37
The race is 238km. My advice to Remco is to attack at 239km from the finish.

There was a time when Remco bulked up significantly. I think this is his optimal weight to beat Tadej in races (precisely before the start, as you suggested). No Fatco, no Slimco but Muscleco. Oumi would be delighted as well.

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Hum... I think Pogacar will attack earlier. You can't gain a lot in 1.8 km (probably 20"). I think he will not risk to be just 20" ahead with 30 km to the finish.

Looking to this profile, he will attack with 5 km to the top of Ganda.
 
I'm having a very hard time to even invent a scenario where any other rider than Pog can win this race. So I guess I won't watch the race, unfortunately.
  • Like, there is no way you can isolate Pog early in the race with his strong UAE team probably best placed to isolate all other team leaders.
  • There is no good 'flat' part in between the climbs where tactical attacks could happen / riders create a gap that's big enough to survive the next climb.
  • There is not one good climb before Ganda that could be used to attack, create a gap and start with an advantage and relatively fresh at Ganda and survive with Pog to the top.
 
I'm having a very hard time to even invent a scenario where any other rider than Pog can win this race. So I guess I won't watch the race, unfortunately.
  • Like, there is no way you can isolate Pog early in the race with his strong UAE team probably best placed to isolate all other team leaders.
  • There is no good 'flat' part in between the climbs where tactical attacks could happen / riders create a gap that's big enough to survive the next climb.
  • There is not one good climb before Ganda that could be used to attack, create a gap and start with an advantage and relatively fresh at Ganda and survive with Pog to the top.
You could have decent km of flat roads or good climbs before Ganda, it wouldn't matter against UAE.

They are likely to bring this team:
Pogacar
Del Toro
Yates
Majka
Covi
Sivakov
One more rider (imagine if it's McNulty).
 
You could have decent km of flat roads or good climbs before Ganda, it wouldn't matter against UAE.

They are likely to bring this team:
Pogacar
Del Toro
Yates
Majka
Covi
Sivakov
One more rider (imagine if it's McNulty).

UAE should bring Juanito. He already declared help for Remco so the race would be a bit more exciting.

Are we all forgetting he has attacked Ganda early both times

TBH I totally forgot.
 
As far as the OP goes:
Eddy unretires to prove a point, gets in the race and.... DROPS Pogi on Passo di Ganda like 2023 Vingegaard on MB.
Forum crashes because of all the Pogi fanboys crying and all the Pogi haters celebrating. Every comentator is in silence witnessing history..
And then, Pogi resurrects...like Fausto did on this faithful day back in 2021, reels Eddy back and drops him for good in Bergamo to settle the GOAT debate once and for all.
Dedicating the win to Fausto, because he was the inspiration behind this performance and both of them take selfie on the podium, before planning a holiday together.

Forum crashes once again, because @Ilmaestro99 is angry that Fausto joined the dark side, this time for good, and no one else gets to see this prophecy of mine.
 
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In Lombardia? Evenepoel was worse last year and Pogacar just destroyed Emilia 35 kilometres to the line while Evenepoel DNF'd. The biggest question was over/under 2 minutes and which pub Evenepoel and Roglic have been drinking.
The latter was an actual question.
Fair point. I feel like there was a year recently where there was some hype about the clash though. May have been 2023.
 
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