Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Samamba]

Scaroni not on the startlist for coppi e bartali

Highly likely he will miss both Milano Torino and Coppi e Bartali.

Was kinda already known that he was gonna miss Milano Torino and Coppi e Bartali

They are going there with an insane team for that parcours tho. Ulissi, Velasco and even Bettiol, making millions to skip the classics in favor of Coppi e Bartali now lol

 

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In Thailand there was a crash in the final corner - despite a very eager man waving a yellow flag

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The interview with Pellaud was good as well. Eurosport should definitely consider to sign those two. Sir, congratulations, Sir!

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The full stages are (live) on Youtube, by the way, for everyone suffering from insomnia

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilFHEBM1v8

 

[Samu Cuenca]

In Thailand there was a crash in the final corner - despite a very eager man waving a yellow flag

Watch ทีมชายสเตจ 1 ｜ #ทัวร์ออฟไทยแลนด์2025 ｜ 24 มี.ค. 68 [_ilFHEBM1v8] | Streamable

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The interview with Pellaud was good as well. Eurosport should definitely consider to sign those two. Sir, congratulations, Sir!

Watch ทีมชายสเตจ 1 ｜ #ทัวร์ออฟไทยแลนด์2025 ｜ 24 มี.ค. 68 [_ilFHEBM1v8] | Streamable

Watch "ทีมชายสเตจ 1 ｜ #ทัวร์ออฟไทยแลนด์2025 ｜ 24 มี.ค. 68 [_ilFHEBM1v8]" on Streamable.

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The full stages are (live) on Youtube, by the way, for everyone suffering from insomnia

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilFHEBM1v8

The Thai speaking interviewer is rocking those Lampre colours.

 

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also good to see Arashiro on the attack again, after all those years carrying bottles on the World Tour.

 

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Another successful day for Li Ning Star in Thailand today, wih Salby winning the sprint.

His picture on PCS looks like it was taken straight from a 1980's cold war movie.

Spoiler

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The startlist for the settimana coppi e bartali seems very strong this year. More big names than usual?

Startlist for Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2025

Competing teams and riders for Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali 2025. Top competitors are Diego Ulissi, Magnus Sheffield and Alex Baudin.

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First stage today is a sprint and then stages 2-5 all have plenty of hills

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I'm struggling to find a single sprinter other than Caleb Ewan on the startlist. So naturally he will still be in like 10th position when the sprint is launched and stop pedalling about 2 seconds later.

And yes, this race has really found a nice little niche where quite a few of the bigger teams will send their neopros and/or a mix of main team and development team riders, coupled with some bigger names and nice routes.

 

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they should bring back the split-team TTT. I liked it.

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Please post comments Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali on the dedicated thread
https://forum.cyclingnews.com/threads/2025-40th-settimana-internazionale-coppi-e-bartali-2-1.40269/

 

[Sciatic]

Impressive lineup of sprinters for tomorrow’s Brugge-De Panne: Milan, Merlier, Phillipsen, Groenewegen, Jacobson, Kooj, Dainese all there. Would be funny if the break wins

 

[Samamba]

Impressive lineup of sprinters for tomorrow’s Brugge-De Panne: Milan, Merlier, Phillipsen, Groenewegen, Jacobson, Kooj, Dainese all there. Would be funny if the break wins

So massive crashfest incoming cause headwind in Moeren meaning 99.9% chance of bunch sprint.

 

[tobydawq]

Parcours looks great for Ion Izagirre.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Parcours looks great for Ion Izagirre.

People already call him the next Oier Lazkano.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Parcours looks great for Ion Izagirre.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Parcours looks great for Ion Izagirre.

Which parcours? De Panne? He isn‘t riding any race this week.

 

[Samamba]

Which parcours? De Panne? He isn‘t riding any race this week.

it's cause people went off PCS and thought he was gonna start. PCS made a mistake, Cofidis always announced Izqueirdo.

 

[tobydawq]

Which parcours? De Panne? He isn‘t riding any race this week.

Aw, he was when I wrote it.

PCS are slipping.

 

[RedheadDane]

Salby doubles up in Thailand.

I would have absolutely no issue with him becoming the Danish Marezcko.

 

[Samamba]

So euhm Jakobsen is already DNF... like it's time to retire bud. I feel bad for him (well not sure actually he's making millions doing this), but there's no point in riding races if you can't even make it 100km into a flat race.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Alien performance by Marsman in the Olympia's Tour ITT.

 

[Netserk]

So euhm Jakobsen is already DNF... like it's time to retire bud. I feel bad for him (well not sure actually he's making millions doing this), but there's no point in riding races if you can't even make it 100km into a flat race.

Classics Brugge-De Panne (26/3 and 27/3)

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You should know the story by now; Short three-day race that got shortened - but at first kept the "three days" part of the title - added a women's race, got WT status, blablabla... Startlist for the Men's race...

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[TourOfSardinia]

Jez Cox & Adam Blythe
What on earth did De Panne do the deserve that?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Alien performance by Marsman in the Olympia's Tour ITT.

First place was up in space, the second place down on earth

(You might have to speak a Germanic language to understand this one)

 

[Tim Cahill]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1904918656880173506

 

[RedheadDane]

Meanwhile, over in Thailand, the Li Ning Star dominance has come to an end, with Quartucci from Vini Fantini winning stage 4.