Tour de Suisse 2025 - Men's (June 15- June 22)

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I also had that thought when I saw what my autocorrect did to me

Now I managed to make you react to my post before my post, because I was unhappy about how I edited my post and deleted my post. But now my post lives again! In reality though it was a time paradox caused by the singularity in Cern.

 

[noob]

Just so that you know; my autocorrect is an art project trying to describe suisse television ability

 

[titan31]

LDP, Powless are two of the bigger losers today. Even lost time on the GC group

 

[Squire]

Grégoire and Vauquelin the only threats for Almeida & co, really. Almeida would need to regain one to two minutes before the MTT, which is hard but possible. O'Connor seems weak, so I don't think he's a big threat.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Vauquelin said he had incredible legs all day

Relevant GC riders, our thoughts and prayers worked and Gall somehow made it.

 

[titan31]

Grégoire and Vauquelin the only threats for Almeida & co, really. Almeida would need to regain one to two minutes before the MTT, which is hard but possible. O'Connor seems weak, so I don't think he's a big threat.

Both of them are good time trialists too so I wouldn't even put too much on Almeida pulling a load back there

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Both of them are good time trialists too so I wouldn't even put too much on Almeida pulling a load back there

Yeah, they‘ll just get really aero on their TT bike on the 9k 9% climb in the time trial. TT abilities are super irrelevant here

 

[Squire]

Both of them are good time trialists too so I wouldn't even put too much on Almeida pulling a load back there

This year's MTT is even harder than last year's where not many stayed within a minute of Almeida. And I certainly won't bet on Vauquelin and Grégoire managing that. And Almeida could be even better this year.

 

[TastyGroceries]

Grégoire and Vauquelin the only threats for Almeida & co, really. Almeida would need to regain one to two minutes before the MTT, which is hard but possible. O'Connor seems weak, so I don't think he's a big threat.

I'm curious how Grégoire will fare when it comes to GC given that there's no extremely hard stage, but I think he will he will drop hard in one of the tougher climb. I'm still unsure on how to rate Vauquelin as he never really performed at World Tour level in mountain stages. What makes this race very interesting now is that neither FDJ nor Arkea have a strong enough team to control the race. Madouas still seems to be out of form this year and Kung seems less strong than he has been in the previous years.

So I can imagine that successful long range efforts could take place.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

Froomie finished with the Mighty Masnada, 5th Tour is in the bag

 

[noob]

As far as I'm concerned this race is now rather open. Or confusing. Shorter stages like this can really make a mess

 

[noob]

When did Almeida ever win the first stage of a stage race?

Edit: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-luxembourg/2021/stage-1

 

[titan31]

Yeah, they‘ll just get really aero on their TT bike on the 9k 9% climb in the time trial. TT abilities are super irrelevant here

I mean they're also both good climbers and aero ability isnt the only thing that makes someone a good TTist.

 

[Mayomaniac]

Grégoire and Vauquelin the only threats for Almeida & co, really. Almeida would need to regain one to two minutes before the MTT, which is hard but possible. O'Connor seems weak, so I don't think he's a big threat.

Kepplinger could also be a problem, if in shape. The guy can climb pretty well.

 

[Samamba]

If Almeida is in form he should definitely still be able to do this. Kinda made this race interesting.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

What a f*cking sh*t performance by Fausto. Seriously man. Maybe he losing time Ben heally style to get freedom in later stages, but there's literally no point because uae will let almida's biggest gc rivals have all the freedom they want. Unfortunately probably the legs. Still if he can start tomorrow stage it's already a better performance than last year, and progress should always be celebrated.

Hopefully the inspiring former-playstation addict Victor langelotti can do something this week

 

[noob]

Even lrcp just commented on this; UAE not acting like they have the favorite to win on their team.

 

[danielzu]

Result must be wrong, it was Fortunato instead of Ballerini in that group. He could be a gc threat as well, but he seems to be in less good shape than at the giro (otherwise he would have been in the top group over that climb)

 

[noob]

Result must be wrong, it was Fortunato instead of Ballerini in that group. He could be a gc threat as well, but he seems to be in less good shape than at the giro (otherwise he would have been in the top group over that climb)

I also expected him to do better

 

[Pozzovivo]

This is going to be a real cycling race

 

[P4rthen0n]

Even lrcp just commented on this; UAE not acting like they have the favorite to win on their team.

It's the usual UAE shitshow whenever Pogacar isn't there.
Really poor from the team managers.

Today was a disaster result for Almeida. There's no other way around it.
On the other hand, the race just got much more interesting. Kinda like the Vuelta 2024.

 

[noob]

It's the usual UAE shitshow whenever Pogacar isn't there.
Really poor from the team managers.

Today was a disaster result for Almeida. There's no other way around it.
On the other hand, the race just got much more interesting. Kinda like the Vuelta 2024.

Or giro 2025

 

[search]

Stage 2:Aarau›Schwarzsee(177km)

Has been a while since they last used the Schwarzsee finish. A very soft climb it is. But can anyone do a Uran Uran?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3gZVwtxbJI

 

[Samu Cuenca]

As one says goodbye, another lives on. Times New Romain.

 

[Valv.Piti]

An interesting route. Not because its great, but because its different. And a super interesting first stage which opened up the race in what looked to be a predictable race. Always a bit of an afterthought after Dauphine for myself, I must admit, but looks to be a very interesting race!