Tour Down Under 2025 - Men's (Jan. 21-26)

[Tricycle Rider]

Or to be positive, bet a Euro, dollar or whatever and when he wins you get three hundred less your countries betting tax charge.

I think Esteban has about 0% chance of winning the GC, but if I were the betting type I'd bet $1 just for *** and giggles.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Only a few more hours before the WT season kicks off, let the fun begin in Australia!

Here's today's stage map, and evidently it's supposed to get kinda toasty in the early afternoon. (31C if I'm converting the time zone difference correctly.)

 

[theyoungest]

I had to google the meaning because I don't bet, does this mean he has about a .33% chance of winning? (Seems about right.)

It means that if you bet 1 dollar on him, you get 300 dollars if he wins. I think it's not impossible for Chaves to win TDU, or any decent explosive climber if he just decides to show up in epic form.

Tom Jelte Slagter is the last non-Anglophone rider to win this race, back in 2013. Clearly not because riders from other nations aren't good enough, but because they just don't care.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

It means that if you bet 1 dollar on him, you get 300 dollars if he wins. I think it's not impossible for Chaves to win TDU, or any decent explosive climber if he just decides to show up in epic form.

Tom Jelte Slagter is the last non-Anglophone rider to win this race, back in 2013. Clearly not because riders from other nations aren't good enough, but because they just don't care.

I'm looking forward to stage 1 for several reasons, one being I want to feel out the vibe of the peloton and see if they're taken this race seriously. If they're just coffee-klatsching then they're obviously not.

 

[Rob5091]

G's last year in the pro-peloton begins. Also the fight for UCI points!

 

[yaco]

I'm looking forward to stage 1 for several reasons, one being I want to feel out the vibe of the peloton and see if they're taken this race seriously. If they're just coffee-klatsching then they're obviously not.

That has changed in the last five years. Riders and teams want to do well in every WT race.

 

[Cookster15]

I don't think we can argue riders don't care about the TDU. Those times have past. We haven't had a proper race since October so I for one am definitely looking forward to it.

 

[Potomac]

I have never wagered on cycling, or any sport (I don't count office pool participation in NFL and March Madness) but I sometimes do look at the odds before a bike race. Chaves caught my eye because i'm an EF fan and he is wearing the #n1 dossard for EF and at 300 it would tempt me if I had betting account.

OTOH, very odd numbering for EF . Or at least I consider it odd. I'm used to #n1 being the leader and then the rest alphabetically, but per PCS...and the official TDU site:

• 141CHAVES Esteban
• 142TODOME Yuhi
• 143NERURKAR Lukas*
• 144VAN DER LEE Jardi Christiaan
• 145BELOKI Markel*
• 146WALKER Max
• 147MACKELLAR Alastair

Should I read anything into it?

btw...Nerurkar comes in at 28/1 ...and I would find that tempting too, if.

 

[Potomac]

I don't think we can argue riders don't care about the TDU. Those times have past. We haven't had a proper race since October so I for one am definitely looking forward to it.

I think that riders in the race care. The ones left behind in Europe...will sleep soundly.

 

[Squire]

btw...Nerurkar comes in at 28/1 ...and I would find that tempting too, if.

Nerurkar at those odds is a much better bet than Chaves if you ask me. Of the really long odds, I guess Busatto at 600 is the only one who strikes me as having the skillset and being somewhat of a candidate to have made a big enough leap since last year to win this race if he's in great shape. Most others are known quantities.

 

[Rockestar_33]

Only a few more hours before the WT season kicks off, let the fun begin in Australia!

Here's today's stage map, and evidently it's supposed to get kinda toasty in the early afternoon. (31C if I'm converting the time zone difference correctly.)

Yeah, 31 today. Rest to be mid to high 20's until Sunday (34°).

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I think that riders in the race care. The ones left behind in Europe...will sleep soundly.

They're probably getting high on altitude-ing but still might want to take a looky at how they're teammates are doing UCI point-wise?

 

[Rockestar_33]

Welsford and Bauhaus favourites today. Corbin Strong my smokie

 

[Potomac]

I recognize the voices of McEwan and Ligget. Who is the woman? She has all the tour guide duties.

 

[Rockestar_33]

I recognize the voices of McEwan and Ligget. Who is the woman? She has all the tour guide duties.

Anna Meares

 

[Rockestar_33]

Do the international crowd get as many ads as we do?

 

[Squire]

Tronchon going for the bonus seconds, justifying the two stars that Axelgaard gave him for the GC.

 

[E_F_]

Is this now the official Axelgaard-posting thread?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

About 81km to go, announcer just said it's about 32C

 

[Potomac]

I'm used to drinking coffee watching a race. But for this race, in my time zone anyway, wine is in season. Especially with the narration and the views of vineyards.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I'm used to drinking coffee watching a race. But for this race, in my time zone anyway, wine is in season. Especially with the narration and the views of vineyards.

Well, who wouldn't want to sample the fine wine here and there? 🍷

Only 62km to go

 

[Potomac]

Do the international crowd get as many ads as we do?

I have no adverts watching in the USA for this race.

My feed has the announcers of course, but I can also hear what I think is a producer's voice. A voice saying things that should only be heard by people wearing the head phones. She says things like "going to break in ten secons....eight.....five, four , three..." and of course.."returning from break in seven...six ..." And she says these kinds of things very frequently. So I pity those viewers.

 

[Potomac]

Nothing like images of salt rime on shorts

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Marriage and Browning look like they're in sync

 

[Potomac]

Any predictions tonight from the very few of us watching?
Or at least hopes?

Break is doomed, of course. And I hate sprints, so I can't be bothered to pick a sprint winner. But I'm doomed to watching it anyway.