Il Lombardia 2025, monument, October 11

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Who will win?

  • You-Know-Who wins again

    Votes: 64 61.0%
  • Remco pulls off a miracle becoming the Harry Potter of cycling

    Votes: 7 6.7%
  • Fed up with PogiGOAT comments, Eddy unretires and beats Teddy

    Votes: 5 4.8%
  • Fausto M. performs Ganda descent for ages and wins the final sprint

    Votes: 11 10.5%
  • Fausto C. resurrects, saves cyclismo and his Lombardy record

    Votes: 12 11.4%
  • Another guy wins/the race is cancelled

    Votes: 6 5.7%

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Arguably his better chance of gaining time on Pog is on the flat after the descent. Unfortunately time gaps scale with gradient, so he won’t have enough flat road to make the race close.
Sure, but I still think Pogacar is relatively fresher than Remco anyway and is just maintaining the gap comfortably. Anyway the guy tries kudos to him.
 
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Because it's a great section to extend your lead if you're a better TT3r, no?

Wait...
Remco is better on a TT bike because of his position. When they ride on a road bike, Remco's position doesn't allow him to be more aero so it's more about power too (race lenght is also important) so Pogacar can be similar to Remco.
 
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I think Remco learned. He didnt even try to follow Pogacar at all, he should have some left in his tank now opposed to burning himself trying to follow his wheel. In theory but might not be the case.
When he looks back at the race and what he is doing, dangling again at @1..1:15 he needed to put himself under pressure to stay on Tadej's wheel..made the same tactical decision 3, 4 big races in a row and will finish a strong second. Hard to say it, but Remco was just too reserved and raced tad bit too conservative.. Guy is still riding great, he put everyone else under tremendous pressure and Storer is out on the limit.