Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Dazed and Confused]

Lafay only appears in the years he has to sign a new contract.

Like something like 50% of the riders in the peloton....

 

[yaco]

Think it will be tough for Lafay to stay away, especially, if there are sprinters in the group.

 

[RedheadDane]

Calling @Ilmaestro99!
Are you watching?

 

[search]

Grande Fausto. Only millimeters away from the win.

 

[Netserk]

Calling @Ilmaestro99!
Are you watching?

Blink and miss it.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Assume the lack of distance left graphics indicate only millimetres to go

 

[RedheadDane]

Paul wins the final stage ahead of Paul. (At least I think it was Paul who was 2nd. No, Stanislaw interrupted the Paul-party.)
Paul wins the GC.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Bit early there after Eddy swung off following a fantastic leadout for nobody

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Double Paul.
Close.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

A fine GC win for Double and Jaco:

1	1	-	Double Paul	Team Jayco AlUla	300	250	12″	22:37:12
2	2	-	Lafay Victor	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	250	190	6″	0:15
3	3	-	Narváez Jhonatan	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	215	160	7″	0:16
4	4	-	Honoré Mikkel Frølich	EF Education - EasyPost	175	140	4″	0:19
5	5	-	Nordhagen Jørgen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	120	120		0:23
6	6	-	Uijtdebroeks Cian	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	115	110		,,
7	7	-	Bonneu Kamiel	Intermarché - Wanty	95	100		0:30
8	8	-	Bilbao Pello	Bahrain - Victorious	75	90		0:31
9	9	-	Zwiehoff Ben	Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe	60	80		,,
10	10	-	Nerurkar Lukas	EF Education - EasyPost	50	70		,,

 

[Samamba]

Around 200 out of Taihu, 96 points out of Guangxi and 180 out of Japan. Cofidis did what was expected these week in Asia, but failed in Europe. Abrahamsens podium in Veneto came in clutch. A miracle is still possible this afternoon for Cofidis tho, like 150 points behind. You never know with Aranburu (apparently he had e mech on Wednesday) and Thomas in Veneto and maybe Knight in Chrono des Nations (but UNO X should be better there).

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

The things we live for

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Song of the week: China in Your Hand by T'Paul.

 

[tobydawq]

Paul winning all stages and GC.

 

[staubsauger]

No gravel course today in the Netherlands!

 

[tobydawq]

Giving us blue balls:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1979819703544766535

View: https://x.com/laflammerouge16/status/1979819703544766535

What's the reason?

 

[Netserk]

What's the reason?

Visma already leads GC.

 

[search]

What's the reason?

they suddenly found out that it's not so great to ride on

https://nibctourofholland.cc/nieuws/geen-gravelstrook-in-nibc-tour-of-holland-op-zondag-19-oktober-in-arnhem/

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Yesterday after the climb stage gave up on Fausto season. Went drinking last jgiht in alicante españa. Slept in, missed the stage andpooks like Fausto went for the win. Serves me right for the loss of faith that I missed it. Always keep the faith on Fausto .

Happy that the new Simon Yates won the gc

 

[RedheadDane]

Went drinking last jgiht in alicante españa.

You don't say...
I'm guessing you were in the vicinity of Alicante already? You didn't just... run from your home in Italy to Alicance to go drinking?

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

19 men break in Veneto. Peloton 2 1/2 minute behind with 125 km to go.

 

[Brullnux]

19 men break in Veneto. Peloton 2 1/2 minute behind with 125 km to go.

Strong break too.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Strong break too.

UAE decided that they dont want to give Vermeersch a chance to win from the break and started pulling. Gap down to around 1'40 with 100k to go.


Edit: .... and then attack from Sivakov! Is he gonna bridge alone?

 

[Rob5091]

Veneto Classic on the Tube at - starts 15.40 CET

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAAp2sCCvcs

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Nice move by van Poppel, but it might destroy the front group.....