UAE Tour 2025, February 17-23

[Berniece]

How is the wind? Can we have echelons? Do we have wind in the climb?

Potential echelons in the part running up to the Jebel Jais

 

[Lequack]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892134867913126104

View: https://x.com/uae_tour/status/1892134867913126104

 

[AupaPyama]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1892134867913126104

View: https://x.com/uae_tour/status/1892134867913126104

Some teams do know what their task is.

 

[Lequack]

Some teams do know what their task is.

To be cannon fodder

 

[Rob5091]

So, he thought all the riders are on Tudor?
@Rob5091; explain yourself!

I was n't really looking at the poor guy waiting but seeing what was going on behind him. I half expected Tzar Nicholas or Lappi to jump up waving a couple of AA batteries and shouting, "we've caught one! we've caught one!"
PS - don't they all get a watch like Pogi's?

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Pogačar has ruined wine for me. If he is not racing there is no excitement in drinking.

I hope Bardiani will make a repeat of last year's glorious Andalucía win, but this time with Tarozzi as the victor. They would probably need another 10 minutes before the bottom though.

 

[Potomac]

This is a lot drama for these sprint points in 10 k or whatever

 

[YavorD]

Pogačar has ruined wine for me. If he is not racing there is no excitement in drinking.

Don't know as about wine but he genuinely ruined the beer for me that one day in AGR.

 

[Squire]

Pogacar has ruined cycling for me, if he is not racing there is no excitement in watching. It's like when you drink really good wine, regular wine wont cut it anymore. Looking forward to seeing the domination today.

For me it's the other way around, so luckily I have more cycling races to enjoy during the season than you have.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

Stunning jutting brown mountains, the riders' jerseys look super bright and colorful in this scenery. Final climb just about to start.

 

[Red Rick]

Lads, it's Movistar

 

[Brullnux]

What the hell

 

[Brullnux]

Lost a minute and a half, wow.

 

[Potomac]

I've never seen a bike change so bad

 

[Samamba]

Interesting that Bjerg is working before Vermeersch

 

[Samamba]

Going to be a really fast Jebel Jais.

 

[Red Rick]

Any leader sitting in the part of the peloton where it's single file is being silly

 

[Brullnux]

I've never seen a bike change so bad

Apparently the fact they're hire cars doesn't help, can't have as many full bikes on the rack. Still, crazy

 

[Tim Cahill]

I'd say UAE don't seem to have the horses but iirc Bjerg can just go on forever on this climb.

 

[Samamba]

Any leader sitting in the part of the peloton where it's single file is being silly

Yeah Van Eetvelt and the Decathlon guys are begin incredibly stupid.

Rodriguez too now.

 

[Squire]

I'd say UAE don't seem to have the horses but iirc Bjerg can just go on forever on this climb.

He looks a bit cooked already.

 

[Tricycle Rider]

I'm watching the Arabic stream, don't understand a word of the language but the commentators certainly sound excited - all the time! It's a bit jarring first thing in the morning (4am in my parts), I miss my geriatric Phil commentary.

10km to go

 

[Tim Cahill]

I've not seen Froome-cam yet, Taxus will be furious.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

I've not seen Froome-cam yet, Taxus will be furious.

I'm sure he will have spotted him fighting at the front in the last kms no matter what actually happens.

 

[Rechtschreibfehler]

I've not seen Froome-cam yet, Taxus will be furious.

They did show him getting dropped though. So the first important question: how long did he make it, is answerable.