Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Dazed and Confused]

GC:

1	1	-	Silva Guillermo Thomas	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	5	16″	24:35:38
2	2	-	Mulubrhan Henok	XDS Astana Team		10″	0:04
3	9	▲6	López Harold Martín	XDS Astana Team		1″	0:19

Tight, so Silva will continue to come under pressure from Astana over the next two stages.

 

[Tim Cahill]

If my top shelf analysis is correct, looking at some posts on social media, there does seem to be a bit of Inter-Eritrea beef between 'Bini' and the other favourite over there, 'Mulu'. Sort of like an African Pog/Rog situation.

Anyway the magician must now surely be courted by the big guns, your Saunier Duvals your Mapeis your Rabobanks, what an entertainer, hopefully he holds on.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

As it stands he is headed for the Vuelta, so a big chance of late season window dressing.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

ToA, stage3:

Just started. Stream in about 1h. Looks damn good on paper.

 

[Mayomaniac]

ToA, stage3:

Just started. Stream in about 1h. Looks damn good on paper.

Nico Vino in the breakaway!

 

[search]

Aleix Espargaro out with a broken hand, on day three of his road cycling career.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

13km to go.

View: https://youtu.be/mgv58DsMArE


Reduced peloton led by UAE is about to hit the last climb up to the line.
Edit: I see Jaco also doing work at the front.

 

[Potomac]

This tour of Austria Englisch feed sounds like just some random cycling fans doing the talking, rather than professional commentators.

Another win for del Toro today?

 

[Didinho]

Baroncini, what a rider.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Lol

 

[Didinho]

Good try from August but everyone knew Del Toro had some sprint left.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Are they really gonna win all stages + GC?

 

[Potomac]

What was Ryan doing pacing two UAE riders back to August?

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage:

1	del Toro Isaac	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	14	20		3:39:27
2	August Andrew	INEOS Grenadiers	5	12		0:05
3	Großschartner Felix	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	3	7		0:07
4	Ryan Archie	EF Education - EasyPost		5		0:15
5	Engelhardt Felix	Team Jayco AlUla		4		0:25
6	Majka Rafał	UAE Team Emirates - XRG		3		0:32
7	Hellemose Asbjørn	Team Jayco AlUla		2		0:35
8	Kämna Lennard	Lidl - Trek		1		0:45
9	Leonard Michael	INEOS Grenadiers				0:47

 

[Dazed and Confused]

GC:

1	1	-	Großschartner Felix	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	3	10″	10:30:55
2	4	▲2	del Toro Isaac	UAE Team Emirates - XRG			0:03
3	5	▲2	August Andrew	INEOS Grenadiers		6″	0:16
4	3	▼1	Ryan Archie	EF Education - EasyPost		4″	0:24
5	2	▼3	Majka Rafał	UAE Team Emirates - XRG		6″	0:38
6	7	▲1	Engelhardt Felix	Team Jayco AlUla			0:48
7	9	▲2	Kämna Lennard	Lidl - Trek			1:08
8	18	▲10	Hellemose Asbjørn	Team Jayco AlUla			1:18
9	10	▲1	Verschuren Killian	Unibet Tietema Rockets			1:29
10	12	▲2	Chaves Esteban	EF Education - EasyPost			,,

 

[Mayomaniac]

Are they really gonna win all stages + GC?

Probably yes, unless there is a breakaway win on the final stage.
Del Toro stomp and another strong showing by August. Ryan Archie could have played it a bit better instead of riding August down for UAE, but he was dropping Großschartner at some point. He went for the weird middle ground, not all in on dropping Großschartner, still playing a bit of tactical games, but only after Großschartner was at his limit, still doing some work for UAE.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Also a good result for the Italian Dane Hellemose.

 

[Mayomaniac]

What was Ryan doing pacing two UAE riders back to August?

Yeah, he actually could have gained some time on Großschartner if he played his cards better.

 

[Cycling111]

Are they really gonna win all stages + GC?

I don't understand why they're racing this. Or well, I do, due to the absurd record of victories. It would have been better to do a good job at the Giro and have Del Toro win instead of the ridiculous they did in Finestre.

But they're determined to win all these races against riders from development teams and continenal teams.

 

[Tim Cahill]

August looking very promising for Avenir after Ineos brought him up way too early, the startlist is shaping up to be outstanding.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Why are Jayco trying to turn Engelhardt into a climber rather than a fast man after a hard day like he was before? Seems like he has more potential as the latter...

 

[Didinho]

What was Ryan doing pacing two UAE riders back to August?

He probably saw the Finestre stage.

 

[YavorD]

August looking very promising for Avenir after Ineos brought him up way too early, the startlist is shaping up to be outstanding.

Crazy to think that people like Del Toro, L. Martinez, Poole, Pellizzari.... are eligible for Avenir as well.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Crazy to think that people like Del Toro, L. Martinez, Poole, Pellizzari.... are eligible for Avenir as well.

I think Ayuso can ride can't he?

Which would be a hilarious addition to the punishment schedule, Avenir, Poland, Guangxi, then off to the Tour of Sudan to see if he can solve the civil war.

 

[Potomac]

Maybe Ryan was trying to defend his 3rd place on GC from August? But that seems silly, there was no way Grosschartner and Toro were going to let August win the stage.