Most exciting wins of 2025?

[ingsve]

Not stages 1 to 4 of Tour de Guangxi.

I'm actually a bit surprised at the size of the field at the end of the last couple of stages even when the stages got a little bumpy. The 4th stage had 5 smaller climbs with for example a 3.8km climb at 6.3% yet there was still 100 riders left for the sprint. Seems like no team was interested in setting a pace to drop a few sprinters.

 

[ingsve]

Dwars door het Hageland might actually be my definite answer to this thread. He can be exciting, too!

Ya, sad to see that race relegated to 1.1 status next year.

 

[Salvarani]

Pogacar dropping Vingegaard in Hautacam and sealing his 4th TdF

It was epic

 

[Salvarani]

SB was an exciting win from Pog.

Despite crashing and hurting himself... he never gave up! Fought himself back into it.

Pure ciclissimo!

 

[Leinster]

Abrahamsen in the Tour. Healy in the Tour. Both were insane rides.



VPP on Ventoux.



Rory Townsend at the Hamburg Cyclassics probably also deserves a mention but I just don't care much about that race.

Healy’s ride to take yellow, and his 2nd on Ventoux, were both more exciting than his actual stage win. Even though Yates’ stage win in the former ended up being a bit of an afterthought.

And not the first or last time it’ll be decided by a crash from a rider in the leading pair, but Roubaix was pretty exciting.

 

[Logic-is-your-friend]

If I'm not mistaken, Remco also lost in that race... But yeaah... what was interesting and rare was Tadej's defeat.

I have no idea which race you are talking about, and Remco losing a race is hardly newsworthy. Unfortunately we have come to the point where Pogacar losing is. If I meant Remco winning a race, I would have said that. But that is not what I meant.

 

[Eagle_Alps]

Langellotti Poland stage 6 comes to mind.

Other than that?
Only Wout in Paris and Skjelmose's Amstel will be remembered for 2025.
(Ok maybe Ventoux, too)

Edit: Powless at Dwars MUST be remembered! 😆

 

[tobydawq]

Langellotti Poland stage 6 comes to mind.

Other than that?
Only Wout in Paris and Skjelmose's Amstel will be remembered for 2025.
(Ok maybe Ventoux, too)

Edit: Powless at Dwars MUST be remembered! 😆

You must not have watched the first stage of the Volta a Catalunya.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Stage 5, tour of Slovakia. One for the purists

 

[Netserk]

Finestre tops my list of most rewatchable races.

 

[Lurkerman]

For a biased/fanboy pick, I found it exciting to see Alaphilippe pull it off at Québec

 

[HashRouge]

There have been some great ones mentioned. Cataluña stage 7, TdF stage 21, Powless at DdV, MSR, Trentin at Paris Tours...

I know it's not popular to pick a Pogacar win, but I'd also like to suggest Dauphine stage 1. Remco, Pog, Vingegaard and MdvP in a break away and then in a four up sprint for the line is the reason I watch cycling, it was such a fun stage!

 

[Netserk]

Today.

 

[Davesta]

The stages / races that spring to mind for me are :

Amstel Gold - obviously
Finestre - the only stage I’ve watched twice!
Ventoux - Vingegaard & Visma throwing everything at Pog, plus Healy vs VPP vs Mas. Great action.
Montmartre - the only time Pog got dropped on a climb all year, and a glimpse of vintage WvA
Catalunya stage 1 - the birth of Brennan

 

[Peyroteo94]

Some people here are confusing exciting wins with "WTF" wins IMO.

For example Remco in WCTT was anything but exciting (unless you are a diehard fan which it is normal). After 8 km we knew he would win the TT. But it was probably a top5 WTF moment/win of the season IMO (for me it was 2nd behind Combloux).
Pogacar in FW is another example of a boring win but one of the WTF moments/wins of the season.

For me, this is the top5 exciting wins of the season:
1 - AGR (it was shocking to see Pogacar getting caught. Remco and Pogacar to the underdog was a fairytale finale).

2 - MSR (incredible fight between MVP and Pogacar)

3 - Tour de France stage 21 (incredible finish on CE. We were used to boring sprints and seeing WVA dropping Pogacar was really something fresh and incredible to see)

4 - RVV (Nowadays, it's the best stage design we have in the calendar. Very very good race)

5 - Sterratto stage in the Giro (Incredible stage. It's only in fifth place because we had some important crashes, Roglic and Ayuso unfortunately).

We had some real good stages or classics (like Pais Vasco, DDV) but I think prestige is also important so I decided to put 5 high ranked races.

 

[fenns]

Rory Townsend Cyclassics Hamburg - the peloton sprinters bearing down on him fast and late - too late!

 

[Sciatic]

Some people here are confusing exciting wins with "WTF" wins IMO.

For example Remco in WCTT was anything but exciting (unless you are a diehard fan which it is normal). After 8 km we knew he would win the TT. But it was probably a top5 WTF moment/win of the season IMO (for me it was 2nd behind Combloux).
Pogacar in FW is another example of a boring win but one of the WTF moments/wins of the season.

For me, this is the top5 exciting wins of the season:
1 - AGR (it was shocking to see Pogacar getting caught. Remco and Pogacar to the underdog was a fairytale finale).

2 - MSR (incredible fight between MVP and Pogacar)

3 - Tour de France stage 21 (incredible finish on CE. We were used to boring sprints and seeing WVA dropping Pogacar was really something fresh and incredible to see)

4 - RVV (Nowadays, it's the best stage design we have in the calendar. Very very good race)

5 - Sterratto stage in the Giro (Incredible stage. It's only in fifth place because we had some important crashes, Roglic and Ayuso unfortunately).

We had some real good stages or classics (like Pais Vasco, DDV) but I think prestige is also important so I decided to put 5 high ranked races.

That would be pretty close to my top 5 as well.

 

[dobrien]

Amstel was fantastic, MSR too, but for me, nothing tops Wout's victory in the last stage of the Tour. Just an absolutely, utterly epic setting, insane crowds, the rain, dropping the Yellow Jersey on the last cobbled climb, and a win by one of my favorite riders, who has had his share of bad luck and then some, a positively redemptive triumph. That's the one that had me absolutely on the edge of my seat yelling at the screen.

Honorable mention to the Ventoux stage, what a battle that was, and watching Van Wilder claw his way back to take the stage saving pull for VPP, bravo!