2025 Races with Spoilers.

[Cathryn]

Sarah Gigante is the climbing revelation as well. Whatever happened to fellow Aussy Neve Bradbury who appeared to be a good climber but then hasn't featured since her Giro win last year?

I haven’t seen Neve racing for ages! Off to stalk her insta!

 

[Cathryn]

Sarah Gigante is the climbing revelation as well. Whatever happened to fellow Aussy Neve Bradbury who appeared to be a good climber but then hasn't featured since her Giro win last year?

According to Instagram she is in Andorra so I’m assuming she’s in the TdFF team!

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Bit confused by his name, but I'll adopt your Noah Lindholm rather than his surnames as per PCS which I've been using until now.

Noah has a LOT of names to choose from, I'm going on what a DK cycling account on Bluesky calls him, but it could easily be wrong. I think PCS tend to go with the official UCI registration, but that's often very different to what people are called here

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Noah has a LOT of names to choose from, I'm going on what a DK cycling account on Bluesky calls him, but it could easily be wrong. I think PCS tend to go with the official UCI registration, but that's often very different to what people are called here

Just checked this and it does seem like DK media are generally using either all four names or just Noah Lindholm. Also found out he's Rolf Sørenson's nephew

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Lindholm was second to teammate Gijs Schoonvelde on the fifth and last stage of the AVB. Team GRENKE - Auto Eder ended up with 1st, 2nd and 6th on GC (Noval third), the youth jersey, the mountain jersey and top three in the points, as well as winning 3 out of 5 stages and the team competition. Lindholm himself won all three classifications.

 

[DeadCalm]

Lindholm was second to teammate Gijs Schoonvelde on the fifth and last stage of the AVB. Team GRENKE - Auto Eder ended up with 1st, 2nd and 6th on GC (Noval third), the youth jersey, the mountain jersey and top three in the points, as well as winning 3 out of 5 stages and the team competition. Lindholm himself won all three classifications.

Congrats to Lindholm. Of all the promising Danes (and there are a few), he looks the most likely to be a genuine GC rider. One thing to bear in mind though is that Team GRENKE - Auto Eder are Red Bull's U19 team and Red Bull have invested massively in their juniors. They are comfortably the strongest junior squad around and are able to bully races which, from the stages I watched, they did incredibly well in this race. Taking that into consideration, Noval's third place is still, especially given the age difference, very impressive, possibly even more so. I think Ineos will be quietly pleased with what they saw from their signing.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Congrats to Lindholm. Of all the promising Danes (and there are a few), he looks the most likely to be a genuine GC rider. One thing to bear in mind though is that Team GRENKE - Auto Eder are Red Bull's U19 team and Red Bull have invested massively in their juniors. They are comfortably the strongest junior squad around and are able to bully races which, from the stages I watched, they did incredibly well in this race. Taking that into consideration, Noval's third place is still, especially given the age difference, very impressive, possibly even more so. I think Ineos will be quietly pleased with what they saw from their signing.

Oh the list of results from the race shows they've built a super-team there. Seems a little unsporting really at that level. Noval's also still youth jersey eligible in that race, so I'm sure he'll come good.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Congrats to Lindholm. Of all the promising Danes (and there are a few), he looks the most likely to be a genuine GC rider.

There was a segment on the post Tour evening show where TV2 DK discussed Lindholm (with an interview - nothing exciting, very grounded) and the two other prime picks from the Danish youth ranks - Albert Withen Philipsen and Peter Øxenberg. Surprisingly, Øxenberg seems to be picked out as a GC rider, Ineos were very keen on him (he's their rider, but riding for Team Lotto Kern-Haus PTSD from the length of name Bank). He'll be riding l'Avenir this year and is joining Ineos as stagiaire from August. They interviewed Kurt-Asle Arvesen about him and he was very complimentary. They didn't mention Theodor Storm, I guess they're giving him time and space to get things back together after his horrific illness.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

Valle d’Aosta starts tomorrow with an 85km flat stage.
After that it a mountain time trial, then 3 monster summit finishes.
Gotta love this race.

 

[Archie from BR]

Valle d’Aosta starts tomorrow with an 85km flat stage.
After that it a mountain time trial, then 3 monster summit finishes.
Gotta love this race.

There's 6 of the Giro Next Gen top 10 on the startlist and a some young bloke called Widar.
That young Slovenian Omrzel was impressive at Giro.

 

[DeadCalm]

There's 6 of the Giro Next Gen top 10 on the startlist and a some young bloke called Widar.
That young Slovenian Omrzel was impressive at Giro.

Hopefully Josh Golliker can put in a good performance. He seems to have gone off the boil a bit this season.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Hopefully Josh Golliker can put in a good performance. He seems to have gone off the boil a bit this season.

Just looking through his results, is he going a bit more sprinty/classics this year?

 

[Archie from BR]

Was having breakfast in the cafe this morning when I saw First Cycling had a game starting for d'Aosta, so I have jinxed 9 riders.

 

[Blazing Saddles]

It’s being streamed live on YouTube.


View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk0Y4xMyTPg

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Horrible news from the Giro Valle d'Aosta
Samuele Privitera is in critical condition after a serious fall during the first stage

https://www.wielerflits.nl/nieuws/j...-in-kritieke-toestand-na-val-in-beloftekoers/