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General Race Thread 2025 **spoilers**

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  • #632
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Jamie Meehan will finish the season as a stagiare with Cofidis. Big opportunity for him



  • #633
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123657497#Comment_123657497

    Fiona Mangan now confirmed for the TDFF too

    Waiting on UAE now



  • #634
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Lara Gillespie confirmed for Tour de France Femmes now too. It means our last 3 national champions are all at the race

    2023 Gillespie

    2024 Mangan

    2025 Griffin (in the jersey)



  • #635
    Paddigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Paddigol


    excited to see how LG gets on… could spring a surprise if she gets any freedom



  • #636
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    Vos takes stage 1 of the TdF Femmes

    Mangan 74th @ 4:06

    Gillespie 126th @ 7:40

    Griffin 140th @ 7:40



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  • #637
    CramCycle
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 26,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭CramCycle


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123672670#Comment_123672670

    Should we add the Femmes onto the Tour thread as that will die off or set up a second thread. The Femmes is always entertaining or are people happy for it to be in here?



  • #638
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,057 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123674645#Comment_123674645

    Let it just flow into the Tour thread. We are all following it already.



  • #639
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123674645#Comment_123674645

    Just leave it here

    A great finale today, TG4 are showing it. Was surprised to see Kasia and Pauline attack but fair play to Garcia for getting the stage, I was sure she would be caught at the end.

    A lot of big names suffering already or out due to illness, will be interesting if they can turn it around on the big mountains. Can the French have a Tour winner this year?

    Some huge time gaps already, hopefully some of the Irish riders can get in breaks?



  • #640
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,057 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Great to see Quimper get it's moment in the sun today. Outside of the well known fact it is twinned with Limerick city you don't hear about it much on the world stage.



  • #641
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Elisa Longo Berghini is out of the TDFF. Lara Gillespie had been working for her so far so maybe she’ll have a bit of freedom now.

    Flat day today. You’d expect Lorena Wiebes to win, but fingers crossed Lara and Mia Griffen can get into the top 10



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  • #642
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Big crash in the TDFF. Gillespie was looking decent but got caught up by it. Overall favourite Demi Vollering got up to finish but she could barely pedal



  • #643
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Gillespie 3rd on today’s stage. A good sprint with only the 2 best ever ahead of her

    EDIT: Griffin 25th, Mangan 28th. All 3 Irish in the top 30



  • #644
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,057 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    Just got home in enough time to accidentally get a big spoiler from TG4. Really wish I had seen the sprint without knowing the result.



  • #645
    Mefistofelino
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Mefistofelino


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123680707#Comment_123680707

    Really good sprint from Gillespie, particularly as she had to move across to pick up Vos and Wiebes in the last 80m. Clear space between her back wheel and the fourth placed rider. Its just a matter of time for Lara

    Thought Wiebes might get a warning for her lean on Dygert.



  • #646
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,057 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681003#Comment_123681003

    Herself and the team were very happy afterwards. Seems to be lots of enthusiasm around her at UAE.



  • #647
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681367#Comment_123681367

    She seems a great character. Some of it has to be down to the team losing their leader so at least getting something out of the race (before the hills come anyway)



  • #648
    Paddigol
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,532 ✭✭✭Paddigol


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123681367#Comment_123681367

    She is fantastic. Hard not to really take to her. A very infectious personality, races with a smile, backs herself to attack and leaves nothing behind. She really could go to the very top with a bit of luck.



  • #649
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Some upcoming races for our pros.

    Jamie Meehan has his first outing as a stagiare with Cofidis at the Tour de l’Ain

    Eddie Dunbar is set to return at the Arctic Race of Norway



  • #650
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Sam Bennett is on the provisional list for the Tour of Poland. He hasn’t raced since the Giro



  • #651
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Viva la France! Will they get a Tour winner in Ferrand-Prevot this year, looking good from today!



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  • #652
    Raymzor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 374 ✭✭Raymzor


    Great day out in San Sebastián today!!!


    Got some cool videos at finish line also. Highly recommended day out!

    IMG_5999.jpeg
    IMG_5998.jpeg IMG_6012.jpeg IMG_6015.jpeg


  • #653
    at1withmyself
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,678 ✭✭✭at1withmyself


    Do the TNT commentators get commission every time they say 'Tour De Frances Femmes avec Swift', christ can they not this say at this years tour', why the need to call out the full title each time! mini rant over!



  • #654
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123693966#Comment_123693966

    Part of the TV deal. Same with a million sports events. They have to mention the sponsor

    Meanwhile Archie Ryan doing Vuelta a Burgos. Darren Rafferty doing Tour of Poland

    Possibly indicates Ryan is doing the Vuelta



  • #655
    jack01986
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 893 ✭✭✭jack01986


    Did anyone see the crash Sam Bennet was involved in? Was he ok?



  • #656
    Squidgy Black
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,745 ✭✭✭✭Squidgy Black


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123696563#Comment_123696563

    Went down pretty heavily, he was on the outside coming off one of the pinch points to move up the front but he overlapped wheels with another rider as it squeezed in a bit. He rolled in to the finish anyways



  • #657
    JMcL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,636 ✭✭✭JMcL


    Finn Crockett won GC at the Kreiz Breizh (3 day race in Brittany by the looks - try saying that after a few pints) yesterday

    https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/kreiz-breizh-elites/2025/gc


  • #658
    Dodge
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,812 ✭✭✭✭Dodge


    Remco officially off to Red Bull Hansgrohe next year.

    Meanwhile Archie Ryan 9th in an uphill finish in Burgos



  • #659
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,162 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123698696#Comment_123698696

    Remco with Rog, Lipowitz, even Hindley, Pellizari, Van Gils, Vlasov how they going to square those circles? As someone said on twatter, Red Bull Bora are spending a lot of money to come 3rd behind UAE and Visma

    Post edited by retalivity on


  • #660
    breezy1985
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 31,057 ✭✭✭✭breezy1985


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123699268#Comment_123699268

    Can't see Rog at the big races next year. Lipowitz is certainly within his rights to tell him to fuk off and I don't think Rog is gonna care too much about helping Remco either.

    Interesting times for the Wolfpack too. PL is gone and they don't have the sprint or classics team they used to. Seem at a bit of a crossroads.



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  • #661
    CantGetNoSleep
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,377 ✭✭✭CantGetNoSleep


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123699287#Comment_123699287

    I think for Quickstep their issue is 16 of the last 21 monuments have been won by two riders (plus they got two more with Remco), so difficult for any team to go back to the way they were in their glory days



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