Tour de Pologne 2025, August 4-10

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Usually Kooij turns up in good shape here after the summer break, so yeah, hard to really see much competition for him. All other sprinters (apart from de Kleijn maybe, who comes back from injury) normally just don't have his speed.

Let's see how UAE will handle this race. Sounds like Majka wants to win.

 

[BlackWhiteEagle]

1.3km 1,6% categorized climb is absolutely mad. I actually live in Wrocław, been there many times, never thought about this segent as a climb of any sort, not even a false flat section.

 

[tobydawq]

1.3km 1,6% categorized climb is absolutely mad. I actually live in Wrocław, been there many times, never thought about this segent as a climb of any sort, not even a false flat section.

I especially like the 700 metres of this climb (starting segment and finishing segment) which has a percentage of 0.0%.

 

[RedheadDane]

1.3km 1,6% categorized climb is absolutely mad. I actually live in Wrocław, been there many times, never thought about this segent as a climb of any sort, not even a false flat section.

Guess the have to hand out the KoM jersey... somehow.
Though, looking at the profile, it seems there are... better places.

Oh, well... I'll see if I get home from work in time to catch the riveting KoM sprint.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I feel super confident in predicting Froome Dawg for lanterne rouge!

 

[TourOfSardinia]

Live now

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Live now

Yes, we're off to the races in what looks like a slightly moist Poland - the startlist isn't the strongest, but I've never watched this race before, so I'll give it a looky.

Can this thread be pinned? I don't know how to @ one of the mods...

 

[Dazed and Confused]

so Grondin with a puncture, perhaps that will be enough to force a DNF.

 

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Interesting that Elia Viviani said that this is his main goal of the season. Let's see if he gets a top 10 out of it, at least.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Back in 2014 when Majka won the race in the wonderful colors of stinkoff, stage 1 offered some atrocious weather:

View: https://youtu.be/VAlg-3NC4IM


Only 3 guys couldn't finish that day, one of which was the original skeletor.

 

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Back in 2014 when Majka won the race in the wonderful colors of stinkoff, stage 1 offered some atrocious weather:

View: https://youtu.be/VAlg-3NC4IM


Only 3 guys couldn't finish that day, one of which was the original skeletor.

"If this is cycling, I'm a banana", was Carlton Kirby's very fitting live commentary on that stage back then

 

[Keldergoat]

1.3km 1,6% categorized climb is absolutely mad. I actually live in Wrocław, been there many times, never thought about this segent as a climb of any sort, not even a false flat section.

Even in the Netherlands we would say this goes a bit too far.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

80km to go, the coathanger and a random t-rex are doing the heavy lifting in the peloton.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

One of the riders just threw a bottle into someone's beautiful gladiola garden

Pretty decent crowds for a cloudy, Monday afternoon race though.

 

[Potomac]

The best of the start list....32 of the top 200 riders​

UCI World Ranking​

Pos.	Rider	Team	Points	#
1	KOOIJ Olav	TVL	2120	26
2	MAGNIER Paul	SOQ	1585	41
3	KÜNG Stefan	GFC	1495	48
4	POOLE Max	TPP	1425	52
5	ULISSI Diego	XAT	1410	55
6	BILBAO Pello	TBV	1303	61
7	MCNULTY Brandon	UAD	1284	62
8	SHEFFIELD Magnus	IGD	1200	67
9	VACEK Mathias	LTK	1093	74
10	BRENNAN Matthew	TVL	1052	76
11	TIBERI Antonio	TBV	1040	79
12	ZAMBANINI Edoardo	TBV	944	88
13	CHRISTEN Jan	UAD	860	101
14	KANTER Max	XAT	819	108
15	FISHER-BLACK Finn	RBH	813	111
16	BAGIOLI Andrea	LTK	788	115
17	VERMEERSCH Florian	UAD	781	120
18	BARONCINI Filippo	UAD	769	122
19	VALTER Attila	TVL	767	123
20	MIHKELS Madis	EFE	705	137
21	GODON Dorian	DAT	606	163
22	BUDZIŃSKI Marcin	580	171
23	VAN GILS Maxim	RBH	569	173
24	VAN DEN BERG Marijn	EFE	538	180
25	GRUEL Thibaud	GFC	536	181
26	DE KLEIJN Arvid	TUD	511	185
27	HERMANS Quinten	ADC	508	186
28	MOLARD Rudy	GFC	502	189
29	THIJSSEN Gerben	IWA	497	190
30	ZANA Filippo	JAY	489	193
31	VERNON Ethan	IPT	479	198
32	MOLLEMA Bauke	LTK	473	200

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Interesting that Elia Viviani said that this is his main goal of the season. Let's see if he gets a top 10 out of it, at least.

I guess at 36 it's slim pickings and smaller goals for a rider...

 

[Samamba]

Interesting that Elia Viviani said that this is his main goal of the season. Let's see if he gets a top 10 out of it, at least.

1 sprintstage in Poland is his goal of the season?

Also, I'm pretty sure he was scheduled to do the Vuelta?

 

[Potomac]

I was scanning the list of of UCI ranked riders above and thinking about who will take the GC.

Whoever it is, I think the Tour of Poland GC win would be the biggest win of their career.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

1 sprintstage in Poland is his goal of the season?

Also, I'm pretty sure he was scheduled to do the Vuelta?

how many bunch sprint stages are there in the vuelta this year? Can't be many.

 

[Samamba]

how many bunch sprint stages are there in the vuelta this year? Can't be many.

Not a lot but more than in Poland lmao, and at least they are pretty prestigious ones.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Even in the Netherlands we would say this goes a bit too far.

It still doesn't beat the profile for the Maasdeltatunnel from the opening stage of last year's Tour de France Femmes:

 

[dgodave]

The white road paint here is very bright, I must say.

 

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1 sprintstage in Poland is his goal of the season?

Also, I'm pretty sure he was scheduled to do the Vuelta?

well, it's from an interview on the race website, so they probably like the riders to mention stuff like that

“I’m feeling good. I just finished an altitude training camp, so this race is the right opportunity to see if it paid off. This is my main goal for the second part of the season. I trained for three weeks, and now it’s time to sprint. There aren’t many chances this week, so we need to be ready from tomorrow and especially for stage four. We have a strong team, the lead-out train is ready, so we’re looking forward to the first stage and trying to win it.”"

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[RedheadDane]

EXCUSE me! That graphic showing the UAE riders...

 

[Rob5091]

So who wants the KOM jersey then for tomorrow?