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I realize the cycling season "began" three weeks ago with Omloop, but the first monument was today. And it was epic. Watch their faces, they were putting it all on the line.

I'm not going to spoil it, but the last thirty minutes of Milan-San Remo were riveting, with a deserving winner. 

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I'm thinking this Matthew Brennan kid might turn out to be pretty good.  Heartbreaking to see Del Grosso do all that work and then get reeled in at the very end by Brennan and Groves. 

Visma got themselves a good one, it appears. 

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I will be in Europe for at least a chunk of the summer and really want to see part of a race. Have friends (a Dallas couple) who live in Montpellier and I am thinking about trying to visit them to watch Le Tour pass through. 

I have been at the Place de la Concorde to watch the final day in Paris in 1997, but I haven’t watched it in the wild. 

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I hate that I'm not a better poster on this thread.  I watch most races on delay - at times, weeks later.  Just finished Paris/Nice.  We have some good American riders coming up.  Stage 8 

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Had an American win the GC and another win the stage.

@Goofyboy some are on YouTube.  Most I'm finding are on Max and Peacock.  Pretty cool cause there are no commercials.  Just straight, multi hour coverage.

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It's been a pretty interesting Spring for sure.

Epic weather conditions in Paris-Nice, and poor Jonas. A thrilling Milan San Remo for sure. Love watching that Tadej - we've come a long way since the Chris Froome 'stare at your powermeter' winner. That kid likes to race.

A wacky Volta Catalunya - several mountain stages ended with sprint finishes, with Primoz outside the top spot by a second. He was counting on a mountain stage which was neutralized due to wind (and won by Durango's Quinn Simmons, sporting the best mullet and Fu seen in the peloton for some time). What looked to be a ho-hum circuit around Barcelona ended up being a slug fest as Primoz and Ayuso went for spring bonus seconds. I didn't think Primoz, or Bora, had it in them, but his flyer at 20k to win it all was impressive.

Paris Roubaix should be a hoot with Tadej in it. Hoping for a good race and no injuries to late-season favorites...

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On 3/30/2025 at 6:08 PM, Txzen said:

It's been a pretty interesting Spring for sure.

Epic weather conditions in Paris-Nice, and poor Jonas. A thrilling Milan San Remo for sure. Love watching that Tadej - we've come a long way since the Chris Froome 'stare at your powermeter' winner. That kid likes to race.

A wacky Volta Catalunya - several mountain stages ended with sprint finishes, with Primoz outside the top spot by a second. He was counting on a mountain stage which was neutralized due to wind (and won by Durango's Quinn Simmons, sporting the best mullet and Fu seen in the peloton for some time). What looked to be a ho-hum circuit around Barcelona ended up being a slug fest as Primoz and Ayuso went for spring bonus seconds. I didn't think Primoz, or Bora, had it in them, but his flyer at 20k to win it all was impressive.

Paris Roubaix should be a hoot with Tadej in it. Hoping for a good race and no injuries to late-season favorites...

Flanders will be the same. 

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Some great racing in the past week. First American Neilson Powless takes on 3 Visma riders in a sprint, including Wout, and somehow pulls it off on his own.

Then we get Tour of Flanders with the lead group having MVP, Wout, and Tadej all together in the final 20km.

 

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Pretty damn cool story today.  Remco Evenepoel is making his season debut at Brabantse Pijl, a flemish race.  Remco has been out all 2025 after getting hit by a car door while training, resulting in some pretty bad injuries.  Last 5km he finds himself in the lead of the race with fellow Belgian Wout.  Some good gamesmanship leading into the finish.

 

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First American Neilson Powless takes on 3 Visma riders in a sprint, including Wout, and somehow pulls it off on his own.

I first saw this guy's name a few months ago because he has a bunch of KOMs next to my neighborhood.  I found his "rode the Tour de France" credentials to be acceptable.

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Tadej has been busy, and impressive, this spring.  This acceleration at the end roaring away from Remco, Ben Healy, and Pidcock today was something.  Will be excited to see what kind of form Jonas is in by TDF. 

 

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Today's Giro stage is fucking awesome. You don't need to watch until 75 km to go, but then you need to pay attention to every moment. It's incredible, beautiful racing.

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Unbelievable stage today. Simon Yates came out on the very mountain that Chris Froom whipped him on in 2018.  Carapaz and the pink jersey either couldn't respond or completely screwed the pooch, tactically.  

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4 hours ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

Unbelievable stage today. Simon Yates came out on the very mountain that Chris Froom whipped him on in 2018.  Carapaz and the pink jersey either couldn't respond or completely screwed the pooch, tactically.  

Great stage.  Not sure how the tour can beat that this year.   Carapaz has questionable tactics at times but at the end of the day the race leader in Del Toro has to ride on the front at this pace to win the race and not expect help.  It's what the champions have to do on a big stage and he will learn that.  

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19 minutes ago, EastHorn said:

Great stage.  Not sure how the tour can beat that this year.   Carapaz has questionable tactics at times but at the end of the day the race leader in Del Toro has to ride on the front at this pace to win the race and not expect help.  It's what the champions have to do on a big stage and he will learn that.  


 I saw some of the Twitter folks saying Del Toro rode cowardly, but I'm guessing he just didn't have the legs. He's only 21, and yesterday was a brutal stage. 

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5 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:


 I saw some of the Twitter folks saying Del Toro rode cowardly, but I'm guessing he just didn't have the legs. He's only 21, and yesterday was a brutal stage. 

Yea crazy to say he rode cowardly given other efforts over the tour.  I think he marked the wrong guy and you live and you learn.  He needed to ride just below his limit on the front and maybe they reach the top with a smaller gap but Wout and Yates would have been a tough combo to catch anyways. 

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Maybe the greatest stage I’ve seen. Flipped the script indeed. 
 

Del Toro looked a bit gassed all day but I think there was more to it. I think he was frustrated to have to ride with no help, and it got in his head. The freewheeling in the valley was odd to see, but perhaps knowing Yates hooked up from Wout took the wind out of his sails. 
 

Hell of a day. 

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12 hours ago, EastHorn said:

Great stage.  Not sure how the tour can beat that this year.   Carapaz has questionable tactics at times but at the end of the day the race leader in Del Toro has to ride on the front at this pace to win the race and not expect help.  It's what the champions have to do on a big stage and he will learn that.  

Giro has been amazing to follow this year.  But the TDF has Tadej and Jonas, that will be more than enough.

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2 hours ago, G650 said:

Having watched the 2018 stage where Yates cracked live at the time, watching this was pretty amazing.

It was amazing to watch Yates not just have the balls to make those attacks, but the fortitude to maintain the effort and finish the epic redemption story on the same climb where he conceded the jersey to the robot Froome. 

Equal to the admirable performance of Yates was the pathetic ego driven refusal to work together and fight from Carapaz and Deltoro. I don’t care if they say they didn’t have the legs to go with Yates, and maybe they truly didn’t, but I know what I saw, and what I saw was a disgraceful lack of effort and respect for the race.

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Lol.  I was waiting to catch up on the Giro before posting about how boring it was.  Disclaimer: I slept through all the drama of Stage 16.  Stage 20 made up for all the ennui.  Amazing job by Yates.

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Stage 4 of Dauphine was interesting with Jonas beating Tadej by 29 seconds.  Was Tadej mortal?  Stage 6 Tadej looked like a machine once again, dropping Jonas, Remco, and others on a climb to win by over a minute.

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Today, stage 6, Tadej just rode away from Vingo. Amazing. Vingo started the day 22 seconds up on Tadej. Now Tadej is up 43 seconds on Vingo.  Remko had a terrible day. 

Florian Lipowitz is a strong rider.  Matteo Jorgensen appears to be strong, too. 

 

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