World Championship 2025: Men’s RR, September 28

[Cycling111]

Maybe next year Remco will challenge Pog for De Ronde. I can’t believe he’s never raced it.

I don't think it'll be that easy for him. Positioning is very important at De Ronde, and the cobbles are harder. It's a race with a lot of accidents.

 

[QueenStagiaire]

I don‘t actually know but looking at how the race panned out, I suppose it‘s good to have missed reading the race thread.

 

[Cycling111]

5th last lap was the one Belgium did behind his car .

I was surprised that neither Ireland nor Denmark claimed.
Last year, Latvia claimed something that didn't give advantage to VDP.

40 seconds is a long time at that point.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972357114787229913

View: https://x.com/ammattipyoraily/status/1972357114787229913

 

[scribers]

I don‘t actually know but looking at how the race panned out, I suppose it‘s good to have missed reading the race thread.

It was equal parts tragedy and comedy. With some romance fiction

 

[Cycling111]

That same ‘ethos’ is what led to a comparatively sub elite (in terms of all time great tier) rider in Valverde being a medal contender nearly the entirety of his career.

Freire won 3 world championships far from being a complete cyclist.
Pogacar won a medal in Glasgow among four big riders.

 

[Cookster15]

Says a lot about how exciting the race isn't that the past few pages are >50% Pogacar fanboys.

Not sure why that would be a surprise to anyone? In a one sided football game the opposing fans usually leave early. Maybe Pogacar is obviously just so much stronger - what would you have Pogacar do?

As for excitement, professional cyclists are paid to win - not necessarily to entertain. Professional cycling is not WWE wrestling.

A more objective view would to be to admire Pogacar's performance regardless of which rider(s) we follow. Would we prefer if Pogacar gifted the world championship to someone else to keep other fans interested? That would not sit well with me nor the rider who won only because he was gifted the win.

 

[Ilmaestro99]

A more objective view would to be to admire Pogacar's performance regardless of which rider(s) we follow.

This would be like admiring lord voldemort for his wizardry performance when hes trying to kill the innocent child harry potter!!!!

 

[YavorD]

This would be like admiring lord voldemort for his wizardry performance when hes trying to kill the innocent child harry potter!!!!

Wait, is Remco the innocent child now?
Also, I admired he-who-shall-not-be-named. He was a great magician.
Evil, but great.


Edit: Are you gonna call him (Evenepoel) the Belgian Harry Potter now?

 

[Breh]

Pidcock is starting to grow on me.

Would be nice to see the horrible nickname 'Pidders' gone tho.

 

[tobydawq]

I don‘t actually know but looking at how the race panned out, I suppose it‘s good to have missed reading the race thread.

I almost always stop reading race threads when Pog attacks. I know what it will contain and I simply don't need to read that.

 

[Red Rick]

It sounded in Pogs interview post race he wasn't recovering as much as expected, so maybe Remco just checked out sooner than he needed to ?

If Pogacar gets tired, everyone gets tired.

 

[Red Rick]

Says a lot about how exciting the race isn't that the past few pages are >50% Pogacar fanboys.

Even in the Pogacar thread it's more like it's a task completed as if he just did the groceries and it's already talking about the next 5 years of monument wins, GT wins and whatnot.

 

[Berniece]

Even in the Pogacar thread it's more like it's a task completed as if he just did the groceries and it's already talking about the next 5 years of monument wins, GT wins and whatnot.

And people wonder why Pogacar gets fatigued mentally

 

[Red Rick]

And people wonder why Pogacar gets fatigued mentally

3 weeks of bagging groceries won't it ever stop

 

[Krzysztof_O]

I can't understand how Tadej was able to stay in front of Remco for so long.

Not only that. Pog was even gaining time on Evenepoel and co on final 2-3 laps. @Red Rick explained it pretty well. Cumulative elevation gain of 5500 m mattered as well with Pog looking as thin as during the Tour.

 

[Lequack]

Valverde interview, in Spanish

https://twitter.com/x/status/1972310365942989286

View: https://x.com/MarcaTMF/status/1972310365942989286

 

[Lequack]

Some pics

 

[RedheadDane]

Some pics

Evenepoel briefly forgetting he was participating in a bike race, not a dance-off competition.

 

[AmRacer]

Evenepoel briefly forgetting he was participating in a bike race, not a dance-off competition.

Showing his fotball skills.

 

[JohnWayne]

How far was he back?

The circuit isn't that long so if you're down like 22 minutes by the time you get to the penultimate lap you're already caught and taken out.

The technical regulations stipulated a time limit of 15mins. So yes, very few if any who voluntarily did not finish.

 

[topcat]

Evenepoel briefly forgetting he was participating in a bike race, not a dance-off competition.

Looks like he's trying to shake out the cramp in his leg. It doesn't look like he's losing the head. In my book, he was unlucky and he's the moral winner.

 

[tobydawq]

That's a thing?
Surely the riders who did finish shouldn't be punished because only a few did.

What do you think?

 

[Danskebjerge]

How far was he back?

The circuit isn't that long so if you're down like 22 minutes by the time you get to the penultimate lap you're already caught and taken out.

Which is a fair rule, I think. We didn't get much information about the riders outside of the top 10, but as far as I could tell from the commentating, Charmig was in the peloton when his teammate Honoré joined an attack.

Ghebreigzabhier Amanuel from Eritrea was the last finishing rider - he was 30th, 12:04 behind Pogacar. You should think it would be possible to finish 1-10 minutes behind him.

 

[Cycling111]

@Devil's Elbow
The really important data is what I posted the other day. In France, this year, Paris-Roubaix, Dauphiné, and TDF all saw their rating increase. Dauphiné reached an all-time high, and so did Paris-Roubaix.
That's more significant than what's happening on a forum that's a rather outdated medium.

The complaints you here don't match the audience data, or the fact that Pogacar is the only active cyclist with more than 2 million followers on Instagram.

He's the cyclist who draws the most viewers. Paris-Roubaix's historic rating increase this year wasn't due to VDP or Pedersen; it was dute to Pogacar´s debut.

And the fact that a Dauphine dominated by Pogacar reached historic ratings doesn't even need to be analyzed. Not being a French cyclist, generating that is incredible.
The Vuelta is desperate for Pogacar to participate, ask why.

But yes, what happens on a forum is more important than on Instagram or the television audience . A forum is not something representative in 2025.

By the way, the most hypocritical thing of all is that those who complain the most on the forums are the ones who most want their favorite cyclists to dominate. This is like the French who complains about dominance and wishes Seixas could be the new Hinault, winning races by five minutes.
Or those who predicted that Remco would win every race by 10 minutes shouldn´t complain now.

Those comments in a forum are worthless to measure the impact. The truly objective data say that Pogacar is the cyclist with the largest audience and the most followers on social media. If he's doing cycling a disservice, imagine the rest, who don't have half the impact on those numbers.

What I find boring is always reading the same people, ten times in each thread, saying how boring something is.

 

[scribers]

Even in the Pogacar thread it's more like it's a task completed as if he just did the groceries and it's already talking about the next 5 years of monument wins, GT wins and whatnot.

I’m just glad he isn’t begging the press pool for his early retirement