Lesser known races 2025 edition

[Libertine Seguros]

Why was there a bunch sprint involving muscular Israel riders at this Volta HTF?

More perplexing than that, why is Artëm Nych, at the tender young age of 30, the OLDEST man in the top 10?

Who are these people and what have they done to the Volta?! Where is Délio Fernández? Where is Vicente García de Mateos? Ricardo Mestre?

At least Carlos Oyarzún is still here to give us something of Volta tradition, but we might be relying on guys like Jesús del Pino and Antônio Carvalho now that Freddy Watts is denied us!

 

[RedheadDane]

Yeah, it's going to be between the two of them.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Cian isn't dropping this bloke in a month of sundays

 

[QueenStagiaire]

German Eurosport saying the Cofidis riders shouldn‘t ride so hard and might as well finish five minutes down… I think that‘s not bike racing and I don‘t think they want Gr. Jegat to come back.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Casino are taking the piss at the moment,

Spoiler: Other Race Spoiler

your lad in Burgos before beat everyone on one leg too, and there were some actual guys there.

 

[RedheadDane]

Prodhomme!

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Easy win for Prodhomme.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Seixas shouldn‘t have gifted that race to the more successful rider.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Strong 3rd place for Meehan but I don‘t know how Visma blundered that 3rd place.

 

[RedheadDane]

Casino are taking the piss at the moment,

I'm gonna have a hard time getting used to not calling them Ag2R from next year.
You apparently haven't even gotten used to not calling them Casino.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Stage:

1	Prodhomme Nicolas	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	14	20		3:56:55
2	Uijtdebroeks Cian	Team Visma | Lease a Bike	5	12		0:02
3	Meehan Jamie	Cofidis	3	7		0:53
4	Tulett Ben	Team Visma | Lease a Bike		5		,,
5	Rouland Louis	Arkéa - B&B Hotels		4		,,
6	Moniquet Sylvain	Cofidis		3		,,
7	Bouchard Geoffrey	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team		2		,,
8	Brambilla Gianluca	Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team		1		,,
9	Graat Tijmen	Team Visma | Lease a Bike				0:56
10	Vendrame Andrea	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team				2:03

 

[QueenStagiaire]

No bonus seconds in this race so it hurts a lot for Uijdtebroeks to lose two seconds at the finish.

 

[postmanhat]

The Decathlon fairy dust only seems to affect a handful of riders each season? This year it seems to have fallen on Prodhomme, Tronchon, Sexias and Bisaux.

 

[Mayomaniac]

More perplexing than that, why is Artëm Nych, at the tender young age of 30, the OLDEST man in the top 10?

Who are these people and what have they done to the Volta?! Where is Délio Fernández? Where is Vicente García de Mateos? Ricardo Mestre?

At least Carlos Oyarzún is still here to give us something of Volta tradition, but we might be relying on guys like Jesús del Pino and Antônio Carvalho now that Freddy Watts is denied us!

But is Nico German Tivani turning into one of those mythical sprinter-climbers? After all he is friends with Sola/coached by him.
That said, he could always climb well for a fast guy (9th on the Alto Colorado inthe Vuelta a San Juan in 2020) and could have been the next Richeze...

 

[RedheadDane]

Aberasturi was 4th in Himalaya, and Hennequin 5th.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd? No clue.

 

[tobydawq]

Aberasturi was 4th in Himalaya, and Hennequin 5th.
1st, 2nd, and 3rd? No clue.

Very mysterious indeed... And it has now been the case for more than 20 minutes.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Euskaltel is apparently the only team that is interested in sharing its results from the race.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Poor signal in the Himalayas, it's very high up.

They could be missing for all we know, like that film, 'alive'.

 

[RedheadDane]

Martin not La(a)s(t) was quickest.
Rikunov 2nd.
3rd remains a mystery.

 

[search]

They could be missing for all we know, like that film, 'alive'.

no one's getting lost here for sure

 

[RedheadDane]

Salby 3rd.
Presumably he did not go missing. He did oxygen after the stage, though. However, apparently that's just... normal...

- Det er helt ekstremt: Dansker måtte få ilt efter stregen

Alexander Salby udsætter i disse dag sin krop for noget, der er langt ud over hverdagskost

www.feltet.dk

Most teams are ready with oxygen after the line, because many need it. I also sleep with an oxygen tank at night.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Visma have blown up the Peloton on Col de la Biche.

 

[Berniece]

Visma have blown up the Peloton on Col de la Biche.

Good of them, give Uijtdebroeks a big enough gap on others so he can ITT to the finish after Colombier

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Good of them, give Uijtdebroeks a big enough gap on others so he can ITT to the finish after Colombier

Or burn off all your riders and then Prodhomme is still in the wheel, you never know.

Bouchard is descending terribly.

 

[Berniece]

Or burn off all your riders and then Prodhomme is still in the wheel, you never know.

Bouchard is descending terribly.

Could definitely be the case, he still needs to drop Preudhomme. But at least they are playing it smart already