Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Rob5091]

I see Devil's elbow was bored enough to start a thread for the race, so for more comments on O Gran please go to - (thanks of course to DE for starting the thread!)
https://forum.cyclingnews.com/threads/o-gran-camiño-2025-february-26-march-2.40149/

 

[aruipksni]

tour du Rwanda 2025 is sort of broadcast on RTV:
https://rba.co.rw/tv

 

[wirral]

Marcelo Felipe (I had never heard of him either) scores his first pro win at the age of 35. He did have a couple of .2 victories though.

 

[hfgon1]

Brady Gilmore very impressive during Tour du Rwanda. Japan Cup last year was great also. Looks like he is on a good way to get a spot in the pro team in the future.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Brady Gilmore very impressive during Tour du Rwanda. Japan Cup last year was great also. Looks like he is on a good way to get a spot in the pro team in the future.

According to the PCS live results, he attacked 10+k before the finish today, just to fade in the End and be swallowed up by the favorite group again. It remains a very tight race at the front for GC.

Meanwhile Duarte Marivoet of UAE Genz Z got his first pro win, by batteling Gilmore and getting the better of him and the favourites (from what I could understand from the Live Results)

 

[Samamba]

Bit weird, you're telling me Gilmore attacks, catches Marivoet who had been up front for longer already, drops him just to get caught and dropped by him in the last km and lose like 30 seconds again? Seems fishy. Either he completely blew indeed, or the PCS live was just incorrect, or he had a mechanical or something (but he was still sprinting against Mulu in the end so would be weird too).

Good to see Marivoet finally showing something

 

[search]

Bit weird, you're telling me Gilmore attacks, catches Marivout who had been up front for longer already, drops him just to get caught and dropped by him in the last km and lose like 30 seconds again? Seems fishy.

here's a photo of his attack

https://twitter.com/x/status/1895463898343768481

View: https://x.com/tour_du_Rwanda/status/1895463898343768481/

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

Bit weird, you're telling me Gilmore attacks, catches Marivout who had been up front for longer already, drops him just to get caught and dropped by him in the last km and lose like 30 seconds again? Seems fishy. Either he completely blew indeed, or the PCS live was just incorrect, or he had a mechanical or something (but he was still sprinting against Mulu in the end so would be weird too).

Good to see Marivoet finally showing something

Yes, but I wonder how a mistake like him attacking, catching, attacking again, gettin caught, being attacked and so forth would work as a mistake in the Live Stats. If that were so they must be hallucinating.

I was confused about how that developed as well.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

here's a photo of his attack

https://twitter.com/x/status/1895463898343768481

View: https://x.com/tour_du_Rwanda/status/1895463898343768481/

This does little to solve the mystery, but if Marivoet indeed found a way to be invisible, that explains how he caught Gilmore of guard I guess?

 

[wirral]

Given they topped out at 2579 metres altitude today, I wonder what the temperatures were like.

 

[Netserk]

Given they topped out at 2579 metres altitude today, I wonder what the temperatures were like.

27 °C at the finish, so probably quite nice.

 

[Rob5091]

Saturday the first of March and it's time for non-classic guys to ride the Faun-Ardèche Classic (1.pro) -
165.9 km from Guilherand-Granges and back again, start 12.10 CET, TV from 13.00 CET (could be 13.30 CET for race pics)

startlist at https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/faun-ardeche-classic/2025/startlist and it's a cracker! Ayuso, Hirschi, Hart, Madouas, Healy, Mas, Bardet and the Duracell Bunny (Scaroni) with Team Vino.

 

[tobydawq]

Saturday the first of March and it's time for non-classic guys to ride the Faun-Ardèche Classic (1.pro) -
165.9 km from Guilherand-Granges and back again, start 12.10 CET, TV from 13.00 CET (could be 13.30 CET for race pics)

startlist at https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/faun-ardeche-classic/2025/startlist and it's a cracker! Ayuso, Hirschi, Hart, Madouas, Healy, Mas, Bardet and the Duracell Bunny (Scaroni) with Team Vino.

What did Skjelmose do to you??

But yeah, great start list.

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Omrzel and Borremans starting on the Aegean Islands today, making their unofficial debuts. As well as Hugo Rishoj and Ludovico Mellano. Let's see if they can hang with Coop.

 

[Rob5091]

What did Skjelmose do to you??

But yeah, great start list.

He's been out since the "breakfast incident" at the Worlds last year (HERE to jog people's memories) so first race of the year. Must have had an extra big bowl of Pogi porridge.

 

[tobydawq]

He's been out since the "breakfast incident" at the Worlds last year (HERE to jog people's memories) so first race of the year. Must have had an extra big bowl of Pogi porridge.

That isn't the reason he didn't start before. He also had his season start in this race last year.

 

[Rob5091]

That isn't the reason he didn't start before. He also had his season start in this race last year.

Indeed he did, so let me add to the favs list, Mattias Sjelmose from Lidl-Trek, who might, or might not, have a problem getting up from the brakfast table.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Whenever Pierre Latour pops up somewhere (he's in the break today), I'm reminded of the fact that it really was as recently as 2018 that he won the white jersey at the Tour. Blows my mind every time.

 

[search]

Over in Rwanda, Zeray took the win, a couple of seconds ahead of Donie, Doubey (back in yellow) and Henok.

Zeray is an interesting one, as he intitially was supposed to join Q36.5 this season, but got transferred to Ukyo instead when Pidcock became available.

 

[Samamba]

For a Worlds rehearsal Rwanda not having a live broadcast this year is weird.

Anyways. Zeray only actual MTF. Donie 2nd, Mulu 3rd, Doubey 4th. Doubey is leader but only a few seconds on Mulu.. 12 on Donie, who had food posioning yesterday and the day before. Pretty good from him.

Tomorrow's stage should suit Mulu the best, so he could still give Astana the 125 UCI points. He hasn't won as many stages as I thought tho.

 

[Netserk]

Whenever Pierre Latour pops up somewhere (he's in the break today), I'm reminded of the fact that it really was as recently as 2018 that he won the white jersey at the Tour. Blows my mind every time.

Thanks to the generosity of Sky not chasing his break to Bagnères. Bernal would have been a much better winner.

 

[Rob5091]

Trek busy on the peloton's front for a long time in France.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Jan Christen DNF?

 

[Rob5091]

Fortunato with 40 seconds on the main guys with 22 km left - surprise coming up?

 

[Coffeeplanter]

Hahahahaha.