Lesser known races 2025 edition

[QueenStagiaire]

Del Grosso has a great future ahead of him, but judging by this stage, he is not the next MVDP on the climbs.

Doesn‘t take away from his descending though

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Lets see if the front group can figure it out.
5km to go

 

[postmanhat]

Doesn‘t take away from his descending though

Superb. If he's still in that chase group, he should get a gap easily again.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Tactically we were perfect

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Strong falling asleep at the wheel also wasn‘t great

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Vacek wins.
Strong leads GC.

 

[RedheadDane]

Congrats to Vacek, Trek worked for that one.


However, and I know I complain about this a lot, you'd think that with such a small gap it would be possible to... somehow... have both the front and the chase in the front at the same time.

Also... why is Kielich wearing that weird purple jersey?

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

Congrats to Vacek, Trek worked for that one.


However, and I know I complain about this a lot, you'd think that with such a small gap it would be possible to... somehow... have both the front and the chase in the front at the same time.

Also... why is Kielich wearing that weird purple jersey?

I assume best Belgian in GC, tour of Belgium has a similar one iirc

 

[RedheadDane]

I assume best Belgian in GC, tour of Belgium has a similar one iirc

I always forget about those "Best [Location] in GC" jerseys.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Wallonie, stage 5 (Final):

GC after stage 4:

1	2	▲1	Strong Corbin	Israel - Premier Tech	5	18″	15:06:30
2	9	▲7	Vacek Mathias	Lidl - Trek		17″	0:01
3	1	▼2	Knight Oliver	Cofidis		11″	0:14
4	25	▲21	Canal Carlos	Movistar Team		4″	,,
5	3	▼2	Foldager Anders	Team Jayco AlUla		9″	0:16
6	26	▲20	Tesfatsion Natnael	Movistar Team			0:18
7	6	▼1	Kielich Timo	Alpecin - Deceuninck		6″	0:19
8	43	▲35	Van Mechelen Vlad	Bahrain - Victorious		6″	,,
9	10	▲1	Heiduk Kim	INEOS Grenadiers		5″	0:20
10	11	▲1	Aerts Toon	Lotto		1″	0:24

total of 30 riders within 25s after way too much passivity yesterday.

Race has started. Peloton together. 172km to go.

Stream should be available @ 15:30 local.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

break of 12 with 1:40
about 47km to go.
stream is available.

 

[RedheadDane]

Why would they have the final stage on a Wednesday?

Also, was that Foldager, just... chilling way behind the peloton? What happened to the GC?

Wait... now it's Vacek wearing that purple jersey? It's the BYR jersey? Why was Kielich wearing it? Foldager was leading that competition during yesterday's stage.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Final stage on wed: Could be tradition, not sure
Front group with 1:10
21 km to go. Last climb in about 10km.

 

[RedheadDane]

It appears the riders have been lost in the forest.

There they are.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Don't waste your time looking back, just go 100%....

 

[QueenStagiaire]

TV director has forgotten about the GC on the final stage.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Front group down to 5 with 30s.
Go Milesi....
4km to go.

 

[Samamba]

Milesi ruining the conti team win

 

[Samamba]

TV directors might have missed the decisive attack

Marchand!!!!! Conti win incoming??

 

[Tim Cahill]

Swift is/was fast but he's also about 50 and this isn't in Italy

 

[Samamba]

Cofidis with 2 wins here with a random team out of nowhere

 

[Tim Cahill]

Cofidis doing an early season Astana unexpectedly with random riders

 

[RedheadDane]

Izquierdo wins the stage.
Strong 2nd, and wins the GC (I would pressume)

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Crash in the last bit of the final.

 

[Squire]

John Strong Corbin with a rather dominant overall win in the end.