Lesser known races 2025 edition

[RedheadDane]

With my family, which means extremely early dinner times (young kids), so didn't catch the finish.
However, given the weather conditions, Ingebrigtsen winning wasn't all that surprising.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Ever since I have been aware of this race, I have been waiting for a question on Only Connect, with clues Azerbaijan-Iran; Luxembourg-Belgium, Macedonia-Greece and ( I don't know a fourth one)

Tibet-China?
Though, debatable because of Chinese expansion politics

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

With my family, which means extremely early dinner times (young kids), so didn't catch the finish.
However, given the weather conditions, Ingebrigtsen winning wasn't all that surprising.

Family of that famous family?

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Family of that famous family?

No

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

The second most famous Ingebrigtsen wins it

Filip or Henrik?

 

[Tim Cahill]

Filip or Henrik?

He has surpassed both after this popular stage win in his home Tour, and now only trails Jakob.

The 'overly protective' father Gjert comes in at 5th.

 

[stianbraathen]

He has surpassed both after this popular stage win in his home Tour, and now only trails Jakob.

The 'overly protective' father Gjert comes in at 5th.

You mean Gjert, "the abuser" ? Depends on the deposition you agree on i presume .. xD

 

[Tim Cahill]

You mean Gjert, "the abuser" ? Depends on the deposition you agree on i presume .. xD

Well yes a bit of understatement on my part

 

[Dazed and Confused]

A French youngster took his first pro win by exercising for 7 minutes.

Boucles de la Mayenne​

1	GRUEL Thibaud	Groupama - FDJ	20	30		6.46,06	47.875
2	COSNEFROY Benoît	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	15	18		0.03,56	47.459
3	TOWNSEND Rory	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10	12		0.06,65	47.103
4	KLUCKERS Arthur	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5	7		0.06,87	47.078
5	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	EF Education - EasyPost	3	4		0.07,31	47.028
6	ISIDORE Noa	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		3		0.07,58	46.997
7	LAPEIRA Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		2		0.07,68	46.986
8	CAPIOT Amaury	Arkéa - B&B Hotels		1		0.08,84	46.855
9	LABROSSE Jordan	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team				0.09,17	46.817
10	RUSSO Clément	Groupama - FDJ				0.09,18	46.816

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I missed it, but the Oberösterreich Rundfahrt started today. Instead of the prologue at Schloss berg in Linz, they opted for a 4 km road race to Pöstlingberg, on the opposite side of Donau. Victor de la Parte won this format 10 years ago, but this time it was Lorenzo Galimberti from Petrolike who crossed the line first after attacking 2 minutes from the line.

 

[SafeBet]

I missed it, but the Oberösterreich Rundfahrt started today. Instead of the prologue at Schloss berg in Linz, they opted for a 4 km road race to Pöstlingberg, on the opposite side of Donau. Victor de la Parte won this format 10 years ago, but this time it was Lorenzo Galimberti from Petrolike who crossed the line first after attacking 2 minutes from the line.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1928138308560748596

View: https://x.com/LosBrolin/status/1928138308560748596?t=ZkY_6uZpOtI9nQ7t3eyKuw&s=19


What is this???

 

[Tim Cahill]

I missed it, but the Oberösterreich Rundfahrt started today. Instead of the prologue at Schloss berg in Linz, they opted for a 4 km road race to Pöstlingberg, on the opposite side of Donau. Victor de la Parte won this format 10 years ago, but this time it was Lorenzo Galimberti from Petrolike who crossed the line first after attacking 2 minutes from the line.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so a mass start in a 4km road race? Done before apparently. Sounds pretty crazy.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1928138308560748596

View: https://x.com/LosBrolin/status/1928138308560748596?t=ZkY_6uZpOtI9nQ7t3eyKuw&s=19


What is this???

The Schlossberg prologue can be a mess to watch because the next rider starts shortly before the previous rider finishes. Here they manage to get similar time gaps, once the seconds on the line are factored in, but they get it over with much faster.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

And 19yo Bálint Feldhoffer impresses again with a second place, has a contract at his current conti team for next year but if he keeps up what he's been doing these past two months it's easy to see a contract at a WT team('s development team) being offered.

 

[TastyGroceries]

A French youngster took his first pro win by exercising for 7 minutes.

Boucles de la Mayenne​

1	GRUEL Thibaud	Groupama - FDJ	20	30		6.46,06	47.875
2	COSNEFROY Benoît	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	15	18		0.03,56	47.459
3	TOWNSEND Rory	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team	10	12		0.06,65	47.103
4	KLUCKERS Arthur	Tudor Pro Cycling Team	5	7		0.06,87	47.078
5	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	EF Education - EasyPost	3	4		0.07,31	47.028
6	ISIDORE Noa	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		3		0.07,58	46.997
7	LAPEIRA Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		2		0.07,68	46.986
8	CAPIOT Amaury	Arkéa - B&B Hotels		1		0.08,84	46.855
9	LABROSSE Jordan	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team				0.09,17	46.817
10	RUSSO Clément	Groupama - FDJ				0.09,18	46.816

Great result for Gruel. I'm curious if he can be consistent enough to be on the podium in the GC here, the next two stages should fit his profile nicely. I think winning the overall will be difficult as AG2R has quite a lot of fire power for the hilly stages.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Great result for Gruel. I'm curious if he can be consistent enough to be on the podium in the GC here, the next two stages should fit his profile nicely. I think winning the overall will be difficult as AG2R has quite a lot of fire power for the hilly stages.

Cosnefroy has returned pretty hot, so on paper he should be the favorite, but clearly Gruel can do much more than exercising for 7 mins, so who knows.

 

[search]

was there any coverage of the prologue in the end? Today it should be on Youtube, so easy to watch after the Giro

France 3 Pays de la Loire

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[Dazed and Confused]

Couldn't find the prologue yesterday on the tube.

 

[search]

Boguslawski took another win today, in stage 1 of the two-day Tour of Estonia. It finished in a relatively slow looking uphill sprint

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This is probably one of the weakest start list of a .1 race all year, but for CQ reasons, I can hardly complain.

 

[search]

was there any coverage of the prologue in the end? Today it should be on Youtube, so easy to watch after the Giro

France 3 Pays de la Loire

Tout savoir sur l'actualité en Pays de la Loire grâce à des reportages qui rendent compte des évènements du jour dans notre région. Une antenne de proximité et toute l'information de votre région.

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there are 10k to go. The stream above is working well

 

[search]

very nice win for Pierre Latour, on a finish which even included a little descent. Bini wins the sprint for 2nd.

 

[stianbraathen]

In ToN, whats going on with Mikkel Bjerg. What kind of tactic is this, jesus christ.

 

[RedheadDane]

In ToN, whats going on with Mikkel Bjerg. What kind of tactic is this, jesus christ.

Not able to watch due to lack of internet connection.
What's he doing? Other than being in the break.

 

[stianbraathen]

Not able to watch due to lack of internet connection.
What's he doing? Other than being in the break.

He was riding alone with a non-pulling Visma rider in no-mans land to catch a break 3 minutes ahead with mediocre riders, now he did make it up to the breakaway , but now the gap is only 1 minute to the peloton and its over 30km to finish still. Also its a puncheur finish that do not suit him at all. I presume he also got some sheit on the mic, cause he was calling the service car up and was gonna leave his thermo jacket, but i think the car was a bit slow so he threw the jacket on the ground right when the car was beside him. Looks like he has a mental breakdown or something xD