Preview, favourites, profile, route and predictions Tour de Luxembourg 2025 stage 5 - Will Brandon McNulty seal GC win?
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The Tour de Luxembourg 2025 has been a very exciting race, we preview the final day of the race, stage 5, in which the outcome of the overall classification can still change which will be contested this September 21 from 10:30h CET to 14:45h CET.
After the time trial of the fourth stage, Brandon McNulty practically closed the final classification. The UAE Team Emirates - XRG American is now 47 seconds ahead of Mattias Skjelmose. Third is Ecuador's Richard Carapaz, 1:04 behind.
All of them will be strong contenders for stage victory on the fifth and final day of competition. If nothing unusual happens, they should also be the three riders who take the podium positions at the end of the race.
Another man who could have something to say is Jhonatan Narvaez, McNulty's teammate and Carapaz's compatriot. Nor can we rule out Jordan Jegat, who will want to redeem himself after a rather weak time trial, showing that it is not at all his fetish specialty.
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Mersch - Luxembourg (176.4 kilometers)
As for stage 5 itself, the route that will decide the Tour of Luxembourg will be a total of 176.4 kilometers and will finish on a beautiful and very tough classic format route, starting in Meersch and ending in the capital of Luxembourg.
Another day that, although it does not have titanic climbs, will not give truce at any time of the day. Undoubtedly, a very worthy way to finish a race that aims to be one of the most beautiful of this final stretch of the season, having a final circuit that is very explosive and could still see some meaningful GC differences.
Prediction stage 5 Tour of Luxembourg
*** Mattias Skjelmose, Jordan Jegat
** Brandon McNulty, Marc Hirschi, Jhonatan Narvaez, Jhonatan Narvaez
* Richard Carapaz, Marco Brenner, Urko Berrade, Toms Skujins, Nicolas Prodhomme, Davide Piganzoli
** Brandon McNulty, Marc Hirschi, Jhonatan Narvaez, Jhonatan Narvaez
* Richard Carapaz, Marco Brenner, Urko Berrade, Toms Skujins, Nicolas Prodhomme, Davide Piganzoli
Pick: Jordan Jegat
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- Just looked again at the photo. Yeah I stand by that. If MS had fallen over in Brands direction I don’t even think she would have hit her. You must be a UCI race commissioner. I’ll be sure to check my sock height should I ever see you on a ride. Looks like everyone else on here sees what I see.mij08-11-2026
- I said looking at the photo it doesn’t appear she deviated. Chill out, not stating my word is the final judgement. Just commenting that based on the photo I don’t see it. And BTW the Dutch coach even said she didn’t impede her.mij08-11-2026
- Blah Blah Blah !frieders308-11-2026
- MS said she was changing gears so that caused her slight deviation. Nothing was intentional.frieders308-11-2026
- How can you use a photo post incident to judge the incident itself (which is not hard to find if you’re prepared to invest the same amount of time in searching as writing that comment? It’s harsh but technically right even though this or worse is not always sanctioned in every race. The two things that went against MS (who unfortunately for her would still have won without making her mistake) are that it was not a bunch sprint where there could have been an overlooked incident or mitigating circumstances explaining a deviation. Everything was focused on just those 2, Schreiber was riding beautifully balanced which made her sudden deviation look unnatural stroke as if it could have been in some part intentional whilst she was slowly drifting ever closer towards the barrier to a point that would have reached obstruction level. In her defence, it might have been the realisation she was heading towards that that made her react suddenly and caused the deviation involuntarily. In any case, congratulations to her for the ride of her life, in people’s minds she will be credited for it.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- Good boy Obviously doesn’t need that much help dealing with pressure, as some have suggested. Wiser (and humbler) than many far further along their careers. About offering him the moon, recently someone came up with an explanation of the downfall of a football great (either referring to Maradona or Portuguese Ronaldo) saying it was kind of normal after coming back from the moon, except that others, including some who actually did go to the moon like Armstrong (Neil in case anyone is too switched off to realise) didn’t go through any of the same motions after coming back. A lot of how you deal with situations has less to do with the situation than with your character.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- I think that they're not really used to dealing with this type of incident in a cyclocross race, and the situation has been magnified because it was a race for a championship title. It's very unfortunate that the race had to be decided in this way.
santiagobenites07-11-2026 - Seriously why do they keep doing stupid things like this. Its one thing to relegate when the placings are minor, when the action is blatant. But when it is ambiguous, why dont they at least take advice from some higher up to avoid embarrassing themselves. This is similar to the Halland goal when his teammate was clearly offside and interfered in play and VAR gave them the goal. if you dont have evidence you cannot convict. Even for doping they have these rulesabstractengineer07-11-2026
- So all those who went to watch, including all from abroad, waled there, spent nothing? Most places hosting events of the sort manage to make it worthwhile. If it was so obviously fruitless, don’t you think by now they’d have run out of hosting candidates? Why do you think the Tour can command such high prices for departure and arrival locations? If it didn’t bring anything locally they’d have to pay to get authorisation to use cities.Jumpyjohn07-11-2026
- What a travesty ! That little deviation did nothing to impede Brand !frieders307-11-2026
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