Paris-Nice 2025, March 9-16

[Monsi]

Tomorrow's stage will be very interesting. I hope Almeida can be good enough, that hill is not good for him.

Almeida's punch has been looking impressive this year that I wouldn't count him out to do really well tomorrow. Maybe even the best out of the GC contenders right now.

 

[RedheadDane]

Sorry, can’t remember, but it was a domestic U.S. flight.

ed I just caught that

Aaah, so it wasn't just me thinking that sounded like an awful long delay. In fact, at that point... I would consider it a cancelled flight.

 

[Lequack]

Nice weather

https://twitter.com/x/status/1900116013598806018

View: https://x.com/arkeabbhotels/status/1900116013598806018

 

[AmRacer]

Nice weather

https://twitter.com/x/status/1900116013598806018

View: https://x.com/arkeabbhotels/status/1900116013598806018

Is it snowing in Nice?

 

[Lequack]

No, I said the weather is nice

 

[AmRacer]

No, I said the weather is nice

Snowing isn't nice

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Seems like we almost got a real elite group getting away with Matthews, Schmid, Barguil, Abrahamsen, Skaarseth, Tarling, Armirail, Turgis, Riesebeek & Flynn. That would've been an interesting group, both because there is insane amount of horsepower so the peloton would've struggled to keep them within range and because it would've been an interesting group to fight for a potential stage win with a lot of potential winners.

Now we rather get a weaker 4 man break.

 

[noob]

In addition to the teams, the riders themselves have a certain degree of responsibility here too. Since there was no specific restart time it would make sense to stay close to the front of the stoppage point, even if folks needed to go back to cars to get warmer clothes and food. It's like getting to the airport and despite the plane already being there, something needed fixing and the airline posted that there is a 3-hour delay. One could go to a distant airport restaurant order a big meal, have several beers, and saunter back to the gate in 2 hrs. I almost missed a flight once because they ended up fixing the problem much more quickly than anticipated so instead of a 3-yr delay they were boarding folks just 45 minutes after the original departure time. When there is a delay--in sport, in life, where ever--the length of a delay is always an estimate. Riders who didn't want to get left behind or scrambling madly when the race restarted needed to be somewhat cognizant of that.

Wow! seriously this was life wisdom for this autistic noob. I had never realized this! I always just assumed that delays can be prolonged but never realized that they could also be shortened.

I wonder if the riders are as noob as me. It wouldn't surprise me. A lot of them seems odd or stupid enough

Thank you this was really helpful!

 

[noob]

Snowing isn't nice

the blasphemy.

 

[Netserk]

Seems like we almost got a real elite group getting away with Matthews, Schmid, Barguil, Abrahamsen, Skaarseth, Tarling, Armirail, Turgis, Riesebeek & Flynn. That would've been an interesting group, both because there is insane amount of horsepower so the peloton would've struggled to keep them within range and because it would've been an interesting group to fight for a potential stage win with a lot of potential winners.

Now we rather get a weaker 4 man break.

Tudor will control until the hills start and then Ala will attack.

 

[Red Rick]

Apparently Vingegaard has crashed.

Organisers about to be flamed again.

 

[search]

Vingegaard crashed, but seems to look okay

 

[search]

seems like he hit sth with his face. The lip is bleeding a little

 

[Netserk]

seems like he hit sth with his face. The lip is bleeding a little

https://twitter.com/x/status/1900171854330900596

View: https://x.com/ParisNice/status/1900171854330900596

Jonas Vingegaard has crashed on the Côte de Trèves. The overall leader suffered a blow to his lips but has returned to the peloton after a visit to the medical car.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Jakobsen Fabio (Team Picnic PostNL) abandoned the race due to fatigue.

 

[tobydawq]

Danish TV2 showed a lot of riders being interviewed about yesterday. Nobody agreed with Jonas about stopping altogether being the best option.

Yet Jonas maintains that the organisers chose not to listen to the riders and force the stage through.

 

[Berniece]

Danish TV2 showed a lot of riders being interviewed about yesterday. Nobody agreed with Jonas about stopping altogether being the best option.

Yet Jonas maintains that the organisers chose not to listen to the riders and force the stage through.

I'm not sure how many teams in total wanted to stop, but Naesen said that 7 teams wanted to stop, and 2 teams wanted to follow the majority. He knows this because he is one of the peloton representatives so he needed to talk with the teams.

 

[E_F_]

Over/under on how many climbs will see action? Put it on 1?

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Over/under on how many climbs will see action? Put it on 1?

Alaphilippe is in the race, so I‘ll definitely take over on that one.

 

[Potomac]

anyone else having problems with peacock right now?

 

[zlev11]

anyone else having problems with peacock right now?

yes. did the live pictures not start yet?

 

[Rob5091]

Come on Little Lenny - show 'em why you're worth 1.5M per year!

 

[Earns1985]

Vingegaard is riding very far back..

 

[Netserk]

Chasing waterfalls!

 

[E_F_]

New awesome Ineos GC-strategy sort of proving me wrong! Only issue is that they don't have a chance, I guess...