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

[Unchained]

Question is who recovers from this. Everyone’s form is exposed

You feel like Almeida looked a little stale? Big effort for sure, everyone chasing looked like they had shaky confidence to go alone or cross, and each time people came to pull, immediate chicken wing, looked like nobody had gas to really chase Joao. Only saw one little clip of Matt Riccitello losing contact and he smashed the gas, got right back on, don't know if he had minor mechanical or what but he was spinning really well..Alaphilippe had some serious bobble head, I thought for sure he was going to get gapped from the group but he fought hard to stay on..he looked fully baked. Tomorrow will be a crazy brutal selection.. Who will last?

 

[ExperienPT]

João Almeida has levelled up — he no longer yo-yos on mountain stages... now he yo-yos in the GC like a pro!

Almeidada incoming?

 

[scribers]

You feel like Almeida looked a little stale? Big effort for sure, everyone chasing looked like they had shaky confidence to go alone or cross, and each time people came to pull, immediate chicken wing, looked like nobody had gas to really chase Joao. Only saw one little clip of Matt Riccitello losing contact and he smashed the gas, got right back on, don't know if he had minor mechanical or what but he was spinning really well..Alaphilippe had some serious bobble head, I thought for sure he was going to get gapped from the group but he fought hard to stay on..he looked fully baked. Tomorrow will be a crazy brutal selection.. Who will last?

I feel like he was really strong. He effectively held off 12+ guys across a false flat and kick. It’s not a question of if jaoa can recover (maybe not even) but who of the other ahead of him can recover and carry form.

 

[Squire]

You feel like Almeida looked a little stale? Big effort for sure, everyone chasing looked like they had shaky confidence to go alone or cross, and each time people came to pull, immediate chicken wing, looked like nobody had gas to really chase Joao. Only saw one little clip of Matt Riccitello losing contact and he smashed the gas, got right back on, don't know if he had minor mechanical or what but he was spinning really well..Alaphilippe had some serious bobble head, I thought for sure he was going to get gapped from the group but he fought hard to stay on..he looked fully baked. Tomorrow will be a crazy brutal selection.. Who will last?

Yeah, I don't think Almeida will struggle significantly more than others to recover from this.

Tomorrow he pretty much needs to have his team make it hard all day and then smash the final climb. No need to make it more complicated. He can take the time he needs on those 4.5km if everyone is sufficiently cooked beforehand.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Yeah, I don't think Almeida will struggle significantly more than others to recover from this.

Tomorrow he pretty much needs to have his team make it hard all day and then smash the final climb. No need to make it more complicated. He can take the time he needs on those 4.5km if everyone is sufficiently cooked beforehand.

I'm sure a lot of them will be dropped before the last climb.

 

[Samamba]

50k solo attack...luck out... wtf man
would be so much better if the entire group rolled over the top and coasted down i guess

That's one way of completely misunderstanding my post.
Why so triggered?

This was posted when G2 was not doing anything, all looking at eachother while they were finally closing in on Almeida.

 

[Andre]

How is Lecerf down 29 minutes? I haven't been watching much of these stages. Is Lecerf riding for Van Wilder?

 

[tobydawq]

French dominance on GC!

But Almeida with a GC themed interpretation of his classical yo-yo/choo choo spiel.

He should be able to win the race.

 

[Red Rick]

That's one way of completely misunderstanding my post.
Why so triggered?

This was posted when G2 was not doing anything, all looking at eachother while they were finally closing in on Almeida.

An event that happens 90% of the time occuring isn't that lucky. It's quite predictable.

 

[Red Rick]

So in 2 min+ in the end +4 stage wins seems about right?

 

[search]

Tomorrow's final climb. Finish is in Santa Maria, around the 6.5k mark

Monti Sta Maria from Grono - Profile of the ascent

Monti Sta Maria from Grono is a climb in the region Grisons. It is 9.4km long and bridges 882 vertical meters with an average gradient of 9.4%, resulting in a d

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I don't think it has been used in a race before, but Pozzovivo couldn't help himself and did a recon last month

TDS 2025 climb | Strava Ride Segment in Castaneda, Switzerland

www.strava.com

 

[Red Rick]

Tomorrow is a bit of a question if Almeida goes on the final or penultimate climb, but it's probably just gonna be the final one.

 

[Samamba]

An event that happens 90% of the time occuring isn't that lucky. It's quite predictable.

I don't agree in this case cause there's riders in that group with a 3min advantage on Almeida that should not be thinking about the stage or anything else than to just ride together and limit the damage or catch him.

So no this isn't the regular G2 syndrome imo.

Also predictable and lucky aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but I get what you mean.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Astana either tanked the stage today to setup a major assault tomorrow or the boys have a severe hangover from the vino giro motivation.

 

[Red Rick]

I don't agree in this case cause there's riders in that group with a 3min advantage on Almeida that should not be thinking about the stage or anything else than to just ride together and limit the damage or catch him.

So no this isn't the regular G2 syndrome imo.

Also predictable and lucky aren't necessarily mutually exclusive, but I get what you mean.

That group all realized on the Splugenpass already they weren't staying ahead of Almeida in GC and therefor their rivals were in the same group, and that's why they rightfully didn't take turns

 

[search]

Astana either tanked the stage today to setup a major assault tomorrow or the boys have a severe hangover from the vino giro motivation.

Fortunato dropped on the flat and never made it back. I guess the others were called back.

 

[Dazed and Confused]

Fortunato dropped on the flat and never made it back. I guess the others were called back.

Pretty big call imo. Anyway, I hope for a more strategic reason.

 

[KZD]

Pogi-like performance from Almeida showing that he is in the hunt for the overall.

Onley doing better than I expected here and O'Connor could end up being Almeida's biggest challenger from the overall.

Gregoire suffered a lot on the climb but did a great descent to save himself. He is still in the fight for the overall.

 

[Tim Cahill]

Cofidis are in real trouble, Onley looks top 5 material or could even podium this, their best rider here is 'Sam Maisonobe', Ion is nowhere, Le Coq is getting old and they don't look that good at Occitanie, getting rolled by Big Raul amongst others. Alex needs a great tour to save their bacon, and Fretin will be doing the mighty and quite crucial world championships of Denmark 'Copenhagen Sprint' at the weekend, which I know we will all be tuning in for.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

A visit to the Gino mader memorial this mornign

https://twitter.com/x/status/1935627573855211867

View: https://x.com/tds/status/1935627573855211867?t=8vvNvAW4FasbAib9TicXUw&s=19

 

[search]

There are 12 guys up the road, of no GC danger at all: Izagirre, Bilbao, Buratti, Bixiaux, Powless, Askey, Swift, Romo, Engelhardt, Bettiol, Bax and Haller.

Gianetti is from this part of Switzerland, though, so I guess UAE will chase. He even came 8th in an amateur race up (the easier road of) the final climb two years ago himself.

 

[scribers]

NASCAR Simmons tried to sneak into the break again and the peloton said “no more”. Too much freedom and awesomeness for one week.

 

[search]

the big break was brought back, and instead there are now Bilbao, Powless, Romo, Vlasov and Fortunato in front.

Still a strong group, but of course easier to control for the moment.

 

[danielzu]

I would really like to know what happened tp fortunato yesterday. He really had chances to finish top 5 here with his advantage

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I was surprised to see Bilbao lose that much time yesterday after he had looked decent in the first stages. He didn't exactly fly during the Giro, so you wouldn't expect him to be past his peak shape by now. It is of course possible that he, after he was dropped, decided to switch focus to stage hunting, and him winning today would definitely be the best possible scenario. However it will hard for the break to succeed, and he won't be the favourite even if it actually does.