Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Netserk]

Van Gils went down with Ion?

Fishy Finn best RedBull rider in 17th, Onley 16th (just 5 UCI points).

 

[Salvarani]

Bagioli coming to life a bit. Consistently there in these type of races so far this season. One to keep an eye on for the Ardennes.

 

[yaco]

Nys rode a controlled race and of course won. There is something wrong with Schmid attacking on the second last ascent and then you have to ride into a headwind.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Nys to show the Slovenian brat who's boss in FW and AGR

 

[Sciatic]

Nys not that surprised he could take this: "I knew I had good legs" . . . "I knew the race suited me" . . ."I know if you have 5 secs at the top you win"

 

[Tim Cahill]

Aranburu's good finish countered somewhat by Astana sh*thousing a Greek race against cyclotourists and some pro-conti strava guys and Velasco getting 8th here.

What a classic battle it's been thus far. Scaroni's return will surely come sooner rather than later.

 

[Samamba]

Van Gils went down with Ion?

Fishy Finn best RedBull rider in 17th, Onley 16th (just 5 UCI points).

Ion took an Astana rider with him, or at least that's what we could see. We also saw a Movistar rider standing up after a crash afterwards, but I did not see any Van Gils, but that obviously does not mean he didn't crash, cause I think he was like 3 positions behind Ion when it happened.

EDIT: he's not in the group anymore after the crash, so yeah either held up or crashed.

 

[search]

Alpecin are usually specific in the riders they recruit and a climber is usually not on their radar.

all three previous Zwift Academy winners they signed were climbers.

 

[Tim Cahill]

It looked like a darkish jersey behind Ion, there was a Movistar rider caught up but I think on the other side of the road I saw a broken bike.

 

[pastronef]

Aranburu's good finish countered somewhat by Astana sh*thousing a Greek race against cyclotourists and some pro-conti strava guys and Velasco getting 8th here.

What a classic battle it's been thus far. Scaroni's return will surely come sooner rather than later.

Astana will get tomorrow Hellas GC and 4th place (unless Ulissi goes for time bonuses to get 3rd)

 

[Netserk]

Ion took an Astana rider with him, or at least that's what we could see. We also saw a Movistar rider standing up after a crash afterwards, but I did not see any Van Gils, but that obviously does not mean he didn't crash, cause I think he was like 3 positions behind Ion when it happened.

EDIT: he's not in the group anymore after the crash, so yeah either held up or crashed.

If he was just held up by it, I guess I'm allowed to celebrate that as karma.

 

[pastronef]

If he was just held up by it, I guess I'm allowed to celebrate that as karma.

for breaking his Lotto contract?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Fee bad including Van Gils because he looked ok early season but RedBull have spent millions on one day riders and have been routinely nowhere. It reminds me of all those years ago when Spurs sold Gareth Bale and just went with the kitchen sink approach. Paulinho, Capoue, Soldado, Lazkano, Pithie, "Finn Fisherman Black".

Roglic to Flanders is the only sensible move at this point.

 

[Netserk]

for breaking his Lotto contract?

Yes. He deserves a year of no luck.

 

[Samamba]

If he was just held up by it, I guess I'm allowed to celebrate that as karma.

If I was like Belgian press i could just ignore context now and say that Maxim Van Gils has been 10 times worse at Red Bull than at Lotto cause he went from top 10 on the UCI ranking to like top 40 in no time.

Van Gils at 5min so he's fine

 

[danielzu]

Champoussin not in the points is surprising. Was he taken out by the crash from ion as well?

 

[Samamba]

Champoussin not in the points is surprising. Was he taken out by the crash from ion as well?

Yes he was the guy behind Izagirre. Hard to say if he actually crashed but he definitely went into the grass

 

[hayneplane]

Demolition job from Nys. Looked several levels above the entire field when he launched it.

 

[Hugo Koblet]

Demolition job from Nys. Looked several levels above the entire field when he launched it.

To be fair, he should be several levels above the likes of Molenaar and Silva. Well done nevertheless.

 

[danielzu]

So this was very costful for both then. Especially champoussin was in such a good form, that he could have brought a top 5 here

 

[AupaPyama]

Yes he was the guy behind Izagirre. Hard to say if he actually crashed but he definitely went into the grass

Thats another strategy to prevent XDS-Astana getting points by Cofidis.

 

[danielzu]

Ulissi takes 3 seconds, maire 1. Now they are in equal time, but maire is in front because of his stage win. I would have thought it still should be one second gap, but somehow they list ulissi as the intermediate sprint winner yesterday, i thought lopez was in front of him. 2 bonus sprints left, they will surely try again

 

[search]

Ulissi takes 3 seconds, maire 1. Now they are in equal time, but maire is in front because of his stage win. I would have thought it still should be one second gap, but somehow they list ulissi as the intermediate sprint winner yesterday, i thought lopez was in front of him. 2 bonus sprints left, they will surely try again

"has a win" is a dead heat rule for the points classification only. For GC, the stage results are added, meaning Ulissi is now (virtually) in front by 3 positions.

 

[Roku]

Finally Wanty scores the first win of the season. An unexpected one, also. Happy about it

 

[danielzu]

Maire takes back one second at the last intermediate sprint. This should secure Ulissis fourth place. Astana tried afterwards to go clear with ulissi, syritsa and lopez, but were caught