2025 Races with Spoilers.

[DeadCalm]

Frustratingly, I couldn't find any TV or streaming coverage of the Tour de L'Avenir despite several sources suggesting that TNT, Eurosport and Discovery+ all have the rights.

Seixas and Finn renewed their rivalry from last year with the Frenchman edging out the Italian by a fraction of a second. I have to confess that Marco Schrettl (3rd) and Mateo Ramírez (4th) are not names I'm familiar with. Nordhagen and Widar lost 8 and 9 seconds respectively. Pablo Torres, another of the favourites, was down in 9th losing 14 seconds and finishing behind Adam Rafferty and Liam O'Brien. The excellent performance of the Irish duo was something of a pleasant surprise to me. Peter Øxenberg put in a strong ride to clinch 10th and claim the title of top (if we don't count Nordhagen) Viking. The young Dane is gradually winning me around.

 

[Archie from BR]

Terrible news, the Vuelta a la Ribeira del Duero MJ race has been cancelled after the passing of rider Ivan Melendez Luque yesterday.
I knew yesterday was abandoned, but didn't know why.
RIP Ivan

 

[Archie from BR]

Yes Disco+ have the road stages of d'lavenir apparently, may have been hard to televise the prologue with riders going of at 30 sec intervals.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Frustratingly, I couldn't find any TV or streaming coverage of the Tour de L'Avenir despite several sources suggesting that TNT, Eurosport and Discovery+ all have the rights.

Seixas and Finn renewed their rivalry from last year with the Frenchman edging out the Italian by a fraction of a second. I have to confess that Marco Schrettl (3rd) and Mateo Ramírez (4th) are not names I'm familiar with. Nordhagen and Widar lost 8 and 9 seconds respectively. Pablo Torres, another of the favourites, was down in 9th losing 14 seconds and finishing behind Adam Rafferty and Liam O'Brien. The excellent performance of the Irish duo was something of a pleasant surprise to me. Peter Øxenberg put in a strong ride to clinch 10th and claim the title of top (if we don't count Nordhagen) Viking. The young Dane is gradually winning me around.

It's not so much that the Norwegians aren't vikings, it's just that they're the wrong sort of vikings.

Decent result for Øxenburg - a 3km 7.7% prologue shouldn't really be his cup of tea at his size, but as we discussed ages ago, he's still finding his niche a bit and Ineos apparently see him as a GC rider.

I can see that Max here in DK have stage 1 live today, but I don't see any highlights or replay from the prologue.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Terrible news, the Vuelta a la Ribeira del Duero MJ race has been cancelled after the passing of rider Ivan Melendez Luque yesterday.
I knew yesterday was abandoned, but didn't know why.
RIP Ivan

Horrible. There have been so many fatalities lately: André Drege, 25 (Tour of Austria); Muriel Furrer, 18 (Worlds); Samuele Pritivera, 19 (Giro Della valle d'Aosta). Now this.

At the risk of sounding clichéd, something must be done. It's just a race. It's not worth the cost.

 

[Archie from BR]

Chapeau Noah

 

[wakemalcolm]

Good to see the king of the Estonian TT scene Rein Taaramäe still tearing up the .2 world at 38.
Shows you where you are in your career when your all time ranking is higher than your current ranking.

 

[DeadCalm]

Chapeau Noah

An excellent result. Donati, the Italian who came second, beat Fretin in a sprint at the Tour de Wallonie earlier this year.

There was a small split resulting in Schrettl, Ramírez, Widar, Torres and Liam O'Brien losing 7 seconds which sees a slight shake up of the top 10 with Callum Thornley moving into 9th and Torres dropping to 11th.

1 Paul Seixas France 4:22:04
2 Lorenzo Finn Italy ST
3 Jørgen Nordhagen Norway 0:08
4 Adam Rafferty Ireland 0:12
5 Marco Schrettl Austria 0:14
6 Mateo Ramírez Ecuador 0:15
7 Jarno Widar Belgium 0:17
8 Peter Øxenberg Denmark 0:18
9 Callum Thornley Great Britain 0:20
10 Liam O'Brien Ireland ST
11 Pablo Torres Spain 0:21

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Frustratingly, I couldn't find any TV or streaming coverage of the Tour de L'Avenir despite several sources suggesting that TNT, Eurosport and Discovery+ all have the rights.

Seixas and Finn renewed their rivalry from last year with the Frenchman edging out the Italian by a fraction of a second. I have to confess that Marco Schrettl (3rd) and Mateo Ramírez (4th) are not names I'm familiar with. Nordhagen and Widar lost 8 and 9 seconds respectively. Pablo Torres, another of the favourites, was down in 9th losing 14 seconds and finishing behind Adam Rafferty and Liam O'Brien. The excellent performance of the Irish duo was something of a pleasant surprise to me. Peter Øxenberg put in a strong ride to clinch 10th and claim the title of top (if we don't count Nordhagen) Viking. The young Dane is gradually winning me around.

Disappointing I know, as it seems that Eurosport have stepped back from providing live coverage of all stages. They have returned to their old policy of only covering next weekend’s brace.

 

[DeadCalm]

Disappointing I know, as it seems that Eurosport have stepped back from providing live coverage of all stages. They have returned to their old policy of only covering next weekend’s brace.

I managed to find coverage on German Eurosport Extra just as Noah Hobbs raised his arms. Hopefully, the rest of the stages will be on the same channel.

Update: Tiz now have yesterday's stage with English commentary and are suggesting they will have a Livestream from 2:10pm UK time so presumably it is being broadcast in English somewhere.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

I now see that it is live streamed on Discovery plus for 2 hours.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Chapeau Noah

Encore!

Just won from the break, which was inexplicably given a large chunk of time and has really shaken up the GC.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Meanwhile, check the speedbump on this neutral zone 🤯

 

[DeadCalm]

Encore!

Just won from the break, which was inexplicably given a large chunk of time and has really shaken up the GC.

It was Elliot Rowe that won. That's a huge win for him. A good couple of days for the Brits.

The Giro Next Gen was effectively won because of a break. I hope the same doesn't happen here. Dalby is a dangerous rider to give 2 minutes to. Still. there's a lot of climbing to go.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

It was Elliot Rowe that won. That's a huge win for him. A good couple of days for the Brits.

The Giro Next Gen was effectively won because of a break. I hope the same doesn't happen here. Dalby is a dangerous rider to give 2 minutes to. Still. there's a lot of climbing to go.

oops