Vuelta a España Rate the 2025 Vuelta a España

[Brullnux]

Ayuso/Vine/Soler shenanigans were fun, so a 2. Everything else was abysmal.

 

[houtdffan]

ZERO

The race could not even finish. Only a zero is appropriate

 

[Tonton]

I will give a minus 8 to this one. Taking hostage the people's sport, regardless of the cause, that's ignorant. Stupid.

Egan won a shortened stage, that was ironic. Pidcock will regret that he didn't lose 4 kilos or he may have won...I'm trying to make sense of it and be positive. I'm disgusted.

As much as I understand the outcry, this was not the place. Jonas deserved better, Joao deserved better, all that sweat overshadowed by idiots...cycling is an easy target, why not try it in San Bernabeu? Pu$$ies...

Minus 8.

 

[veganrob]

Everything about this race was terrible.

 

[Sciatic]

I would grade it "incomplete"

 

[movingtarget]

Not a vintage year for grand tours and this was the worst one. Decapitated stage finishes and a mickey mouse time trial didn't help but there was also a lack of drama throughout with the racing. Worst Vuelta for many years, made worse by the outside factors. Gave it a 2.

 

[solo80k]

I can give it 3/10. I enjoyed some staged but other stages in the second half were unwatchable.

+ TTT, Jonas winning multiple stages, Philipsen with excellent results, UAE drama despite many individual wins, Pellizari vs Riccitello.

- Annoying protests (I understand the cause but it's stupid to punish sport rivalry for politics), cancelling stages finals, ITT shortening, lack of real GC action, no mutant performances.

The most important question in the second half of the race was - Are they able to finish the stage?

 

[Krzysztof_O]

Where's the 0 option?

Always the same with you. Come on, Ayuso - UAE dynamics alone made it at least 3. Pogi not winning it made it at least 5, no?

 

[Red Rick]

Always the same with you. Come on, Ayuso - UAE dynamics alone made it at least 3. Pogi not winning it made it at least 5, no?

Well all 3 GTs this year were "don't smile because it's over, cry because it happened" Grand Tours

 

[Fantastico]

Between 1 and 2 for me. Maybe the worst GT I can remember since I started watching in the late 90s. I did not even watch more than a handful of stages and still never felt to have missed anything.

• 2 stages cancelled early and without a winner
• Relatively weak field and lack of GT action. I mean Almeida was close to Vingegaard but still something was missing for me
• The ITT that could've animated the GT race shortened to 12 km
• Bad stage design with too many unipuertos
• Angliru and Bola del Mundo in one GT (one extremely steep climb of that type is enough)
• UAE dominating with 3 wins in a row and 7 in total
• In general, 4 teams winning 16 of 19 stages
• Castrillo and Romo that were fun following in their break attempts both crashing out

 

[CyclistAbi]

I gave it a 10, mostly for reasons surpassing cycling.