World Championship 2025: Men’s RR, September 28

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Who will win the WC 2025 RR?


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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.
 
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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.
 
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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That's more significant than what's happening on a forum that's a rather outdated medium.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 :rolleyes: . 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.
 
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