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***Official 2025 Tour de France*** - Come Dope with Us! This Year Prizes!!! (10 Viewers)

Top 4 today have Kaden, bottom 4 do not.

Giro Stage 6​

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| Stage 6 |
STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP - ROUND 6 - Giro d' Italia

FBGs League​

  • Giro Leaderboard after Stage 6
| OVERALL |


Giro 2025 Stage wins:
  1. BrettDJ
  2. Jaysus
  3. Jaysus (2)
  4. BobbyLayne
  5. BobbyLayne (2)
  6. Jaysus ()
 

Giro Stage 7​

| Stage 7 |

STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP - ROUND 6 - Giro d' Italia


FBGs League​

  • Giro Leaderboard after Stage 7
| OVERALL |



Giro 2025 Stage wins:
  1. BrettDJ
  2. Jaysus
  3. Jaysus (2)
  4. BobbyLayne
  5. BobbyLayne (2)
  6. Jaysus (3)
  7. Da Raiders
 
just passed halfway so these should be the 13 riders who get the first batch of breakaway points - should benefit a few FBGs teams
 
BobbyLayne said:
just passed halfway so these should be the 13 riders who get the first batch of breakaway points - should benefit a few FBGs teams
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My buddy George finally gets a point!
 

FBGs​

Stage 8 LEADERBOARD

FBGs​

Overall Race LEADERBOARD
 
STAGE RACE CHAMPIONSHIP
Round 6 - Giro d’ Italia

| Stage 9 |

FBGS​

  • MAIN LEADERBOARD - ROUND SIX

  • Giro Leaderboard after Stage 9
  • | OVERALL |

Giro 2025 Stage wins:
  1. BrettDJ
  2. Jaysus
  3. Jaysus (2)
  4. BobbyLayne
  5. BobbyLayne (2)
  6. Jaysus (3)
  7. Da Raiders
  8. Cheeseypoof
  9. Da Raiders (2)
 
Kaden needed one more bag last night. 😂. What the heck was he doing in the break. :lmao:

That was a fun stage to watch. Primoz gonna primoz.

Very happy for Wout
 
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I think everyone of my riders had a mechanical or crash other than Mads who was doing who knows what. Interesting watching Trek chase back Vacek for Ayuso. I don't understand why teams keep riding for UAE when they have by far the strongest team.
 
BassNBrew said:
I think everyone of my riders had a mechanical or crash other than Mads who was doing who knows what. Interesting watching Trek chase back Vacek for Ayuso. I don't understand why teams keep riding for UAE when they have by far the strongest team.
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I'm sure Chris Horner will call them all knuckleheads in his recap video. He loves that word.
 
BassNBrew said:
I think everyone of my riders had a mechanical or crash other than Mads who was doing who knows what. Interesting watching Trek chase back Vacek for Ayuso. I don't understand why teams keep riding for UAE when they have by far the strongest team.
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Trek were riding for Ciccone which I get, sort of, but at this point, I'm not sure how any team is going to dislodge both Del Toro and Ayuso. It'll by like Visma in the Tour of Spain when Kuss won when they just sat on wheels and made the others try to attack. Even when the others attacked, they just had to follow.

At least Roglic can't sit back and wait anymore.

Once Vacek popped, he should have drifted back much sooner and buried himself. The real knucklehead play was Ineos blowing everything up with Del Toro, letting him do no work, and then blowing themselves all up especially once Arensman had the mechanical. At that point Sanchez and Bernal were just pulling Del Toro along for free and the Ayuso group had the minute of Roglic. They'd have been better off to just drop back and force Del Toro to go solo much sooner especially since Wout rightly wasn't doing any work. The two teams that nailed today were UAE and Visma (and to a lesser extant EF...Carapaz was safely invisible the whole stage).

It also sounded like the other UAE riders had no idea what Del Toro was doing. I'm sure their dinner will be "interesting".
 
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In any case more stages like that please since it seemed like the riders just had to ride. It's stages like that that show who are really the best instinctual racers.
 
Monday is Rest Day 2 of 3 (rarity in Grand Tours but necessitated by the logistics of starting on the other side of the Adriatic)

Top 50 Velogames riders through Stage 9:

RankPointsRiderTeam(Credits)(Specialty)(% Selected)
  1. 1266 points Mads Pedersen Lidl - Trek (14-S-50.7%)
  2. 745 points Isaac Del Toro UAE Team Emirates - XRG (10-GC-6.6%)
  3. 669 points Juan Ayuso UAE Team Emirates - XRG (20-GC-56.6%)
  4. 654 points Primož Roglič Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (24-GC-68.0%)
  5. 572 points Giulio Ciccone Lidl - Trek (10-C-37.9%)
  6. 565 points Orluis Aular Movistar Team (6-S-0.2%)
  7. 483 points Wout Van Aert Team Visma | Lease a Bike (16-S-29.1%)
  8. 455 points Richard Carapaz EF Education - EasyPost (12-C-21.5%)
  9. 425 points Antonio Tiberi Bahrain - Victorious (14-GC-20.9%)
  10. 424 points Diego Ulissi XDS Astana Team (8-U-6.4%)

  11. 396 points Mathias Vacek Lidl - Trek (8-U-8.6%)
  12. 370 points Kaden Groves Alpecin - Deceuninck (10-S-24.6%)
  13. 356 points Thomas Pidcock Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team (10-U-58.6%)
  14. 335 points Brandon McNulty UAE Team Emirates - XRG (8-GC-4.1%)
  15. 324 points Olav Kooij Team Visma | Lease a Bike (12-S-16.8%)
  16. 322 points Max Poole Team Picnic PostNL (8-C-4.5%)
  17. 308 points Edoardo Zambanini Bahrain - Victorious (6-U-0.5%)
  18. 292 points Lorenzo Fortunato XDS Astana Team (8-C-16.5%)
  19. 285 points Simon Yates Team Visma | Lease a Bike (12-C-13.0%)
  20. 278 points Michael Storer Tudor Pro Cycling Team (12-C-25.2%)

  21. 272 points Egan Bernal INEOS Grenadiers (12-C-12.7%)
  22. 272 points Maikel Zijlaard Tudor Pro Cycling Team (6-S-0.2%)
  23. 255 points Paul Magnier Soudal Quick-Step (8-S-4.9%)
  24. 255 points Luke Plapp Team Jayco AlUla (6-U-6.6%)
  25. 255 points Milan Fretin Cofidis (6-S-5.1%)
  26. 250 points Joshua Tarling INEOS Grenadiers (6-U-30.4%)
  27. 250 points Casper Van Uden Team Picnic PostNL (6-S-0.1%)
  28. 247 points Damiano Caruso Bahrain - Victorious (8-C-2.6%)
  29. 244 points Igor Arrieta UAE Team Emirates - XRG (6-U-2.3%)
  30. 241 points Wilco Kelderman Team Visma | Lease a Bike (8-GC-3.7%)

  31. 241 points Andrea Vendrame Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (8-U-2.3%)
  32. 240 points Filippo Fiorelli VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè (6-U-5.8%)
  33. 234 points Jay Vine UAE Team Emirates - XRG (8-GC-8.6%)
  34. 234 points Daan Hoole Lidl - Trek (6-U-0.4%)
  35. 229 points Adam Yates UAE Team Emirates - XRG (16-C-18.2%)
  36. 222 points Brandon Smith Rivera INEOS Grenadiers (6-U-0.2%)
  37. 217 points Corbin Strong Israel - Premier Tech (8-S-0.6%)
  38. 211 points Alessandro Tonelli Team Polti VisitMalta (6-U-0.2%)
  39. 166 points Edoardo Affini Team Visma | Lease a Bike (6-U-7.0%)
  40. 160 points Sam Bennett Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (8-S-5.5%)

  41. 160 points Nicolas Prodhomme Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team (6-U-1.0%)
  42. 160 points Max Kanter XDS Astana Team (6-S-0.6%)
  43. 160 points Giovanni Lonardi Team Polti VisitMalta (6-S-0.3%)
  44. 158 points Francesco Busatto Intermarché - Wanty (6-U-0.6%)
  45. 137 points Giulio Pellizzari Red Bull - BORA - hansgrohe (8-C-1.4%)
  46. 137 points Nicola Conci XDS Astana Team (6-U-0.7%)
  47. 134 points Romain Bardet Team Picnic PostNL (8-C-9.8%)
  48. 131 points Thymen Arensman INEOS Grenadiers (10-C-19.9%)
  49. 127 points Manuele Tarozzi VF Group - Bardiani CSF - Faizanè (6-U-0.4%)
  50. 124 points Patrick Konrad Lidl - Trek (6-U-0.8%)
  51. 124 points Carlos Verona Lidl - Trek (6-U-0.7%)
  52. 124 points Joseph Mosca Lidl - Trek (5-U-1.0%)

GC - General Classification aka All Around
C- Climber
S- Sprinter
U - Unclassified

WC - Wild Cards can come from any category
 
Doing well through 9 stages. 8 of my squad in the top 50, with 4 in the top 10. All 9 riders still in the race and have scored points.
 
1-3-9-13-15-20-26-71-99
  • GC: 2nd, 4th
  • C: 6th, 29th
  • S: 1st, 5th
  • U: 3rd, 6th, 45th
only team without Roglič, in hindsight probably didn't find strong enough climbers

Biggest Disappointment: Rubio hasn't come close to last years results; Movistar has a weak squad here, only Aular (6 cr Sprinter) has performed well
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(Bais is 10th amongst 4 credit riders, and the highest 4 credit is only 50th, not much lost there on a relative basis - however, 4s are almost always a bad idea)​

Biggest Surprise: Pidcock and Tarling have been decent values

(though not nearly as good as Aular, Ciccone, Del Torro, Ulissi, Vackek, Zambanni, et al)​
 
cheeseypoof said:
BassNBrew said:
I think everyone of my riders had a mechanical or crash other than Mads who was doing who knows what. Interesting watching Trek chase back Vacek for Ayuso. I don't understand why teams keep riding for UAE when they have by far the strongest team.
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I'm sure Chris Horner will call them all knuckleheads in his recap video. He loves that word.
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I feel like he's starting every video on page 200 of a book I've never read to that point. Is there a decent tutorial out there explaining the correct team tactics? Horner drills in on one thing so deeply, but I lack to structure to fit that detail into.
 
For example, recaps start and end with comments like "Roglic reluctantly has the pink jersey" - like why would anyone not want to be ahead so they can just ride next to the people behind them and finish with the same time?
 
I’m a neophyte when it come to road racing, but as I understand it the big teams don’t necessarily want the leaders jersey early so they don’t have to try and defend it everyday for 2-3 weeks. The goal is to just stay close until the big GC mountain stages later in the race. Or I could be wrong. Lol
 
Tick said:
For example, recaps start and end with comments like "Roglic reluctantly has the pink jersey" - like why would anyone not want to be ahead so they can just ride next to the people behind them and finish with the same time?
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Because once you have the pink, your team sort of has the obligation to defend it which drains them for later in the event (Bora has already lost Hindley as well). As long as it goes to someone who isn't a GC challenger, it's really not a big deal (losing 4 seconds to Ayuso is though).

In yesterday's stage there were two biggish blunders:
  1. Rivera and Bernal persisting and letting a UAE guy high up the GC get a free ride. Once Arensmen had the chain issue they should have sat up and been happy to work to take even more time out of Roglic.
  2. Whatever the hell Vacek was doing trying to bridge. The team was riding for Ciccone (see, Mads breaking the race up in the first sector) and again should have concentrated trying to take time out of Roglic.
Conversely, Visma/Wout and UAE/Del Toro were basically perfect. Their leaders were protected behind, they got a free ride for a lot of it from Ineos, and then Wout got a free ride from Del Toro.

One thing is for certain though, if there is a hard mans, tactical stage, Roglic will almost certainly bleed time. It's not just bad luck at this point.
 
One thing Roglič (& most top GC guys) hates about wearing the leaders jersey in the first two weeks is it takes up 2-2.5 hours of recovery time. Podium appearances, media interviews, extra dipping doping lol controls. It’s not worth it, better to just stay within striking distance & focus on getting stronger each week.
 
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Roglič crash during the recon today was on his right side. Obviously a tactical decision to balance his hemoglobin after crashing onto his left side in the gravel stage a couple days ago.

#chessnotcheckers
 
Stage 10 ITT


Overall


Giro 2025 Stage wins:
  1. BrettDJ
  2. Jaysus
  3. Jaysus (2)
  4. BobbyLayne
  5. BobbyLayne (2)
  6. Jaysus (3)
  7. Da Raiders
  8. Cheeseypoof
  9. Da Raiders (2)
  10. Sand
 
Holy **** I won a stage? That may be a world first.

I've been on travel and still trying to watch the Sunday gravel stage. I may retire just to stop getting behind on these things. Damn near impossible to catch up.
 
DA RAIDERS said:
Someone that knows the rules, tell me why poels didn’t get any breakaway points. Inquiry!
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My guess was Fortunato was in the lead by himself at the halfway point. Weird, fun stage. UAE bungled the entire thing and if they were holding the break like that, they should have tried to take time on Roglic. They're just letting Roglic bide his time to stages 16 and 20. They could have easily had Majka to McCarthy to Yates blow up the GC guys on that last climb, but for whatever reason didn't and in the end let Carapaz think he's back in the race (he played that beautifully).

For all the good stages so far, most of the rest of the week looks relatively boring.
 
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