Lesser known races 2025 edition

[RedheadDane]

BTW, quite the disc-brake testing lead-up to that sprint.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Live pictures from 78th Coppa Agostoni now. About 50kms tp go. Front group of 18 or so which includes 4 UAE's, so the choice on the Sunday is kind of hard. Peloton at 28s.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Adam Yates attacked with 50km to go on the climb and Carlos canal was able to hang on, looks like those 2 will contest the victory as the chasing group (with a billion uae riders) is at 2 mins

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Go, go, Canal.

 

[RedheadDane]

Canal with a mechanical.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Canal with a mechanical.

Why do I have to curse all riders today?

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Canal with a mechanical.

Just typical man just typical. Life is not fair .

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Well, now we don't even have a potential light at the end of the tunnel.

 

[Cycling111]

Bad luck. Canal is faster for a sprint.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Movistar puncture

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Why adam didn't wait for canal??? Uae emirati are simply evil, satanistic cabal ruining our sport.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

The should have allowed him to be brought back by his car Remco style.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Italy:

1	Yates Adam	UAE Team Emirates - XRG	125	75	3:57:41
2	Canal Carlos	Movistar Team	85	55	1:15
3	Velasco Simone	XDS Astana Team	70	40	2:10
4	Lapeira Paul	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	60	32	,,
5	Milesi Lorenzo	Movistar Team	50	28	,,
6	Vendrame Andrea	Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team	40	24	,,
7	Raccagni Noviero Andrea	Soudal Quick-Step	35	20	,,
8	Oldani Stefano	Cofidis	30	18	,,
9	Kulset Johannes	Uno-X Mobility	25	16	,,
10	de la Calle Hugo	Burgos Burpellet BH	20	14	,,

Not much you can do about a mech, but the chasing was destroyed by too much UAE strength.

 

[Rob5091]

Adam Yates takes his turn to win, I see, in Italy. Kind of the team to spread the wins around. Good for the esprit de corps.

 

[Cycling111]

I think he would have won for sure, Canal is fast and Adam not.

 

[Brullnux]

Movistar puncture

Yates, McNulty, Pogacar wins today. Horrible isn't it

 

[pmcg76]

In one sense, what UAE have done this year without a top tier sprinter is incredible(Reminder HTC had Cav, Greipel, EBH), but on the flip side, they are way too overloaded with talent. I much preferred when teams had 20 riders and talent was more evenly spread. Imagine Cofidis or Arkea with some of the UAE guys as leaders.

 

[Libertine Seguros]

Canal with a mechanical.

Well, that explains a lot.

Adam winning solo without doing so practically by default would have been interesting, and would have therefore broken the Rule of Yates.

 

[Cycling111]

Godon wins.

Brennan was brave, but if he had stayed in the peloton he would have won.

 

[RedheadDane]

Godon wins.

Brennan was brave, but if he had stayed in the peloton he would have won.

We had a whole discussion over in the designated thread.

 

[Cycling111]

We had a whole discussion over in the designated thread.

I didn't realize. And we comment here most of these races😓.

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Almost an hour underway and the battle for the break is still ongoing in Binche, that's insane for a 1.1.

 

[Netserk]

Almost an hour underway and the battle for the break is still ongoing in Binche, that's insane for a 1.1.

Very strong group with a tiny gap now.

 

[Netserk]

They have entered the circuit. Gap is still tiny, and now just 5 riders ahead.

Looks like the race to watch today, coverage starts soon.

 

[Netserk]

Big split in the peloton and the break has slightly increased their gap.

Campenaerts
Segaert
Abrahamsen
Vermeersch
Sheehan

Coverage started.