Tour de Pologne 2025, August 4-10

[RedheadDane]

First ever WT win for Monaco.

 

[GenericBoonenFan]

My man ♥

 

[dgodave]

Vulgar display of power!

 

[yaco]

It's been an underwhelming race and they needed to have the ITT at the beginning of the race, because riders have been conservative waiting for the stage seven ITT.

 

[RedheadDane]

Nice hat.
However, someone needs to explain to the people at Eurosport that it's more important to switch to the next race they have scheduled, rather than stick around for the podium ceremony.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

And just like that we have a Monegasque king.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Just watched it back, Langelotti got caught behind a split in the final K, luckily he had a man heroically close it down so he could sprint out of the now swelled-group. None other than the chaotic stylings of young Jan Christen!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1954190838562427301

You can see him giving it socks in the background dragging half the professional peloton back to his teammate .

 

[Rob5091]

Some normal odd tactics by UAE, but chapeau Langelotti.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[chickenlips]

What a sprint, great effort. My lungs were bursting just watching that.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

The next GC superstar victor langelotti!!!!!! So happy

 

[RedheadDane]

BTW, why had I gotten into my head that Frigo was riding ARN?
It's like my brain just went "Frigo? Yeah, he sounds like the kind of guy who'd been doing the Arctic Race of Norway."

 

[Didinho]

Just watched it back, Langelotti got caught behind a split in the final K, luckily he had a man heroically close it down so he could sprint out of the now swelled-group. None other than the chaotic stylings of young Jan Christen!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1954190838562427301

You can see him giving it socks in the background dragging half the professional peloton back to his teammate .

I’m saying McNulty the French way from now on. I can’t unhear it. It was already tempting to write it differently.

 

[Izzyeviel]

I can't remember the last time I saw a rider win from that far back.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I’m saying McNulty the French way from now on. I can’t unhear it. It was already tempting to write it differently.

I always like to complain about the German commentators saying names wrong, but at least they make an effort sometimes (although sometimes those attempts are questionable). I guess in France it‘s just customary to pronounce everyone in a very French manner, so nobody even expects correct pronunciation. Definitely makes it easier.

 

[Izzyeviel]

It does make me wonder how non-english commentators butcher the pronunciation of english names in the peloton.

 

[Brullnux]

It does make me wonder how non-english commentators butcher the pronunciation of english names in the peloton.

There was an F1 commentator in Italy who pronounced Hamilton as Eemilton

 

[stefank]

A French colleague tells me that in France (if you are French) you are likely to be treated with scorn and derision for attempting to pronounce English correctly.

 

[Salvarani]

Some normal odd tactics by UAE, but chapeau Langelotti.

McNulty still got some valuable seconds on the others in GC, which probably was the main thing here, and he should beat Langellotti in the ITT. Langellotti was just super-strong in that finish and hats off to him, rather than it was bad tactics from UAE...

It is what Tiberi, Bettiol and maybe Christen can do in the ITT now against McNulty.

 

[Eagle_Alps]

It does make me wonder how non-english commentators butcher the pronunciation of english names in the peloton.

According to every French commentator,
Benny Lee was most combative at the tour...

 

[P4rthen0n]

Just watched it back, Langelotti got caught behind a split in the final K, luckily he had a man heroically close it down so he could sprint out of the now swelled-group. None other than the chaotic stylings of young Jan Christen!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1954190838562427301

You can see him giving it socks in the background dragging half the professional peloton back to his teammate .

I noticed that too yesterday. Why the hell was Jan Christen pulling for everyone else?
If you got a team mate up front, you just got to suck it and ride someone else's wheel.
Obviously you never know, but McNulty would likely have won the stage if Jan Christen behaved as a proper team mate.

The silver lining here is that the 2 riders involved are McNulty and Jan Christen.

 

[RedheadDane]

"So, what do you do at the Tour de Pologne?"
"See. I dress up as a giant ball, and then I just move my upper body side-to-side."

Max Walker NBT.

 

[Danskebjerge]

I can't remember the last time I saw a rider win from that far back.

Magnus Cort has won like this a few times.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

Langelotti has never finished in the top 30 of an ITT at elite level. I am desperately hoping he can stay in the top 10 overall

 

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Langellotti was a late starter in the UAE Tour ITT, so if you compare his time to guys like Leonard or Bjerg, who had the same disadvantage, it doesn't look too bad.