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

[Potomac]

I'm drinking a Bordeaux for the race tonight. It was already open, and I don't have any Australian wines in the house.

 

[Sciatic]

I'm drinking a Bordeaux for the race tonight. It was already open, and I don't have any Australian wines in the house.

Decent problem solving

 

[Tricycle Rider]

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.

Only 52km left to go, hard to say. But why not go with the break?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Narvaez doing something

And Kwiato also

 

[Potomac]

So first of the season and we all have to get used to changes in kit to recognize teams and riders.

My curse is having deficient color vision and being a fan of EF Education. I know the pink stands out for others, but it is an unremarkable gray to me. Last year they had yellow flashing on their left arm so I had a chance. This year the left has a just a white band, which doesn't do much for me.

 

[Potomac]

Only 52km left to go, hard to say. But why not go with the break?

I would be happy if the break succeeded, but I don't think it will.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I would be happy if the break succeeded, but I don't think it will.

39km to go...

 

[Rockestar_33]

Marriage and Browning look like they're in sync

They're probably our two biggest talents on that team. Would be surprised if they didn't get WT contracts next year.

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

My feed has the announcers of course, but I can also here 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.

We genuinely have 2 minutes of racing to 5 minutes of ads.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

They're probably our two biggest talents on that team. Would be surprised if they didn't get WT contracts next year.

We genuinely have 2 minutes of racing to 5 minutes of ads.

Weird that here in the States we have very few ads.

Aussie youngster break still hanging in there with about 32km to go

 

[Potomac]

They're probably our two biggest talents on that team. Would be surprised if they didn't get WT contracts next year.

We genuinely have 2 minutes of racing to 5 minutes of ads.

I guess this is not SBS?

 

[Tricycle Rider]

The men in the hottish pink so terrify!

 

[Rockestar_33]

Weird that here in the States we have very few ads.

Aussie youngster break still hanging in there with about 32km to go

They'll get caught with about 10-15 km left I reckon.

I guess this is not SBS?

Nope. Channel 7, where Sports coverage goes to die

 

[Tricycle Rider]

They'll get caught with about 10-15 km left I reckon.

Ja, and they know it. But fantastic effort nonetheless.

23km to go for the rest of them now

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Cow sighting!

And also ole G just showed up on the camera

 

[Rockestar_33]

Ads with under 10 km to go. Brilliant by 7!

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Hard to tell a lot of the jerseys apart from the heli shots

6km to go

 

[Potomac]

Hard to tell a lot of the jerseys apart from the heli shots

Only Visma stood out to me

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Only Visma stood out to me

Visma and EF for me

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Crash

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Welsford gets the win!

 

[Rockestar_33]

Bauhaus getting caught in the crash was the big one for Welsford

 

[tobydawq]

So first of the season and we all have to get used to changes in kit to recognize teams and riders.

My curse is having deficient color vision and being a fan of EF Education. I know the pink stands out for others, but it is an unremarkable gray to me. Last year they had yellow flashing on their left arm so I had a chance. This year the left has a just a white band, which doesn't do much for me.

I always thought having impaired color vision would be a severe handicap for a cycling fan.

 

[tobydawq]

Bauhaus getting caught in the crash was the big one for Welsford

Bauhaus was 9th, he wasn't caught up in the crash. Some of his teammates might have been, though.

Anyway, what a stupid finale with lots of erratic twists and turns and downhill until the final kilometre.

 

[Rockestar_33]

Bauhaus was 9th, he wasn't caught up in the crash. Some of his teammates might have been, though.

Anyway, what a stupid finale with lots of erratic twists and turns and downhill until the final kilometre.

I definitely saw the 21 in there

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Just rewatched the final kilometres.

A final 5 kilometres with that much downhill shouldn’t be allowed in a WT race, that could have gone even worse than it already did.

Despite the win, not impressed by Welsford. Launches from the front well inside the final 200 metres and even if he hadn’t sat up a bit early it would have been closer than it should have been.

Conversely that was a strong debut by Brennan, zero help from his teammates in the finale but kept position throughout and his kick wasn’t half bad either. As I said pre-race, he has a good chance of being the race’s youngest ever stage winner.