World Championship 2025: Men’s RR, September 28

[Salvarani]

Empire strikes back!

 

[Savant12]

Crowds have been amazing throughout this WC.

 

[Red Rick]

Pidcock and Hindley both imploded completely and are now behind G4.

Complete idiots

 

[Brullnux]

Feel bad for the people of Rwanda who were promised one elite men's TT and one elite men's road race and ended up with two TTs, just on different bikes

 

[Devil's Elbow]

I've never seen a fanbase so insecure while having their favorite dominate race after race.

No different the entirety of the Federer/Nadal/Djokovic era in tennis and everything from the Messi/Ronaldo era onwards in football. It's a crying shame it's bled into cycling.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Pidders has cracked properly. Wont finish top 10 it seems

 

[scribers]

Pogi dropping Ayuso earlier was just insane looking. Never seen those two authentically race against each other and Ayusos legs came untwined

 

[moljoh]

Remco angry with himself now he didn't stay back with the chase to have a chance to get angry at them

 

[RedheadDane]

Pidders has cracked properly. Wont finish top 10 it seems

Seems it depends on how many - or how few - riders are even left.

 

[Salvarani]

Pogi dropping Ayuso earlier was just insane looking. Never seen those two authentically race against each other and Ayusos legs came untwined

It will leave a lasting impression for sure.

 

[Brullnux]

Pidcock and Hindley both imploded completely and are now behind G4.

Complete idiots

? They fought for a medal. If anyone in G4 had had the ability to follow the chase group they would've done. I'd rather race like Pidcock and Hindley today and end up with no result than be totally out of contention. Like Bettiol in 2023.

 

[AnotherArmChair]

Carlton Kirby on a rant about how his name is Danish
Carlton means free man in Danish

But Kirby means 'big eejit' in Irish though

 

[houtdffan]

wish Remco didn't have the mechanicals

However, Pog would have dropped Remco on the second to last cobbled climb to solo to the finish

 

[Red Rick]

? They fought for a medal. If anyone in G4 had had the ability to follow the chase group they would've done. I'd rather race like Pidcock and Hindley today and end up with no result than be totally out of contention. Like Bettiol in 2023.

They converted being in G2 and fighting for 2nd position into not even a top 10 spot because they did way too much work.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Seems it depends on how many - or how few - riders are even left.

He is 12 at the passing of the finish line

 

[Devil's Elbow]

Seixas narrowly going to miss the top-10 by the looks, missing out on a chance to set a near unbreakable record.

 

[Peyroteo94]

Sure, he got dropped fair and square, but without Remco's two mechanicals the Belgian team would've kept riding and kept it much closer – Healy and co got it to 30 seconds at one point. Hard to know how much impetus the chase lost without the Belgians (and without Van Wilder) but it looked like a lot.

The fact it was a bad decision is shown, to me, by Pogacar storming the cobbled climb every time he goes up it – as everyone knew would happen. He is obviously the strongest rider in the race, and he is obviously the strongest rider since Merckx, but he got away with a tactical error.

IIRC the gap never was under 38". Remco clearly got a lot of help to come back because he was riding behind his teammates and cars.
It wasn't a tactical mistake because he doesn't have a team to control.

 

[RedheadDane]

He is 12 at the passing of the finish line

Who is?

 

[scribers]

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

GOLF

GREATEST OF LIVE FANS

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

They converted being in G2 and fighting for 2nd position into not even a top 10 spot because they did way too much work.

And this was literally the two of them doing combined maybe 10-15% of the pulling in a 5 man group..

 

[Eyeballs Out]

5th place 6 mins behind with a lap to go

 

[Red Rick]

Chase groups have pretty much stabilized in lap times between 22 and 23 minutes

 

[Brullnux]

They converted being in G2 and fighting for 2nd position into not even a top 10 spot because they did way too much work.

No, I appreciate them going for broke. They were probably hoping for a Skjelmose in Amstel situation, and I'd rather that than the usual Strade Bianche 'we give up' approach.

 

[Eddy Evenepoel]

Who is?

Pidders? You literally quoted me on saying he likely wont finish top 10

 

[Samamba]

Got GT differences in one day