Tour de France 2025 (CONTAINS SPOILERS!)

[mjr]

Luke Durbridge really not happy with the changes to the Paris stage!

Heard in: Life in the Peloton, presented by MAAP: The Race Communiqué: Tour de France Breakdown & Durbo’s Data Dive

Episode webpage:
View: https://lifeinthepeloton.podbean.com/e/the-race-communique-durbo-s-data-dive-tour-de-france-breakdown/


Media file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/zcym42kwnug3didx/RB_LITP_RC_06_JUNE_FINAL.mp3

 

[misforturob]

Gaudu out due to lack of form

Tao GH out after illness at Suisse (guy can't catch a break)

 

[matticus]

Gaudu out due to lack of form

Tao GH out after illness at Suisse (guy can't catch a break)

Too true.

 

[phreak]

Gaudu out due to lack of form

Tao GH out after illness at Suisse (guy can't catch a break)

He clearly needs his own "Is Tao finished?" thread

 

[Shadow]

He clearly needs his own "Is Tao finished?" thread

Apart from winning the giro and swimming the channel did he even really start?!

 

[wakemalcolm]

Tao still has a year left with L-T to make some kind of recovery.
The man I'm worried about pride swallowage at the moment is Hugh. Which pro wants to go to Austria in July with no contract for next year and nothing else on their race schedule?

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Apart from winning the giro and swimming the channel did he even really start?!

He was going pretty well again in 2023, third in Tirreno-Adriatico is nothing to be sniffed at, then won Tour of The Alps convincingly, including two stages. He was sitting in third place after ten stages of the Giro, 5" behind G and 2" behind Roglic, when he was wiped out.*


*No, I don't remember all this stuff, I looked it up

 

[wakemalcolm]

Lidl Trek must have looked at the pile of bones on the floor in the Giro and thought: it worked out fine for Froome at Israel, so why not?
Agree, spring '23 was the high wartao-mark.

 

[No Ta Doctor]

Tao still has a year left with L-T to make some kind of recovery.
The man I'm worried about pride swallowage at the moment is Hugh. Which pro wants to go to Austria in July with no contract for next year and nothing else on their race schedule?

What's the point in Hugh Carthy? He seems to be fairly mediocre on GC (third at Vuelta and a couple of Giro top tens a few years back), but doesn't have a list of stage wins to suggest he could be a hunter and his one day record is terrible, he races as infrequently as Vingegaard, apart for some reason San Sebastian, which he keeps coming back to - maybe to celebrate his (checks notes) 14th place. He's 30 years old and unless he's a fantastic mountain domestique and I've missed it, there are younger riders that are cheaper and with more potential that keep coming through

Sorry Hugh if you're reading this, I'd love to see you do well and score a new contract, but I don't quite see what you'd be aiming for.

 

[matticus]

Lidl Trek must have looked at the pile of bones on the floor in the Giro and thought: it worked out fine for Froome at Israel, so why not?
Agree, spring '23 was the high wartao-mark.

Now that is a low blow!

 

[mjr]

Now that is a low blow!

Why? Reportedly, it has worked out well financially for Froome. Not so great for the team, though. Gambled on his recovery and lost. The days of *rmstr*ng-style comebacks from serious problems may be over.

 

[matticus]

Why? Reportedly, it has worked out well financially for Froome. Not so great for the team, though. Gambled on his recovery and lost. The days of *rmstr*ng-style comebacks from serious problems may be over.

Yes. No disputing that!

(BTW: i meant that comparing Tao to Froome was a low-blow, in case that wasn't clear.)

 

[misforturob]

UAE:

Pog
João Almeida
Adam Yates
Pavel Sivakov
Jhonatan Narváez
Nils Politt
Marc Soler
Tim Wellens

https://www.domestiquecycling.com/e...irates-xrg-name-pogacars-tour-de-france-team/

 

[TakeTheHighRoad]

Same as last year, except for Narvaez instead of Ayuso

 

[BrumJim]

Same as last year, except for Narvaez instead of Ayuso

Making the team look even stronger!