From the 21st to the 26th of January we have got the first men's World Tour event of the year. In Australia, the Tour Down Under is every single season the first big race of the year and we preview stage 6.
The race finishes with the traditional criterium in Adelaide, where the sprinters will fight for one final win in a very fast stage. There really isn't too much to say about this stage, it's completely flat and features around two dozen laps of a small and explosive circuit. If a breakaway goes up the road, it won't be easy to catch them.
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But this is terrain for all-out pace from the start, and the sprinter teams should be able to control it. All eyes on a bunch sprint and the final corner which comes very close to the finish, ending at around 200 meters to go.
Leadouts will be crucial here as whoever starts their sprint from the front may very well be close enough to the finish to avoid being surprised by the fast men coming from behind.
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- He’s good at messing up his WCs ;-)Mistermaumau09-01-2025
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- Yes, I also think teams should start re-evaluating their TdF commitments according to rider goals. As long as a rider doesn’t have any realistic chance of sone form of glory, don’t force them just to end up with a forgettable result, give someone else on the team the experience and chance to prove themselves and let your better rider focus on goals they CAN aim for. You really get the feeling some riders are being forced to pretend they can achieve something when they know they haven’t got a hope.Mistermaumau09-01-2025
- It’s very difficult to say now since he’s hardly ever raced over the last 5-6 years. Had he continued when he was good at it he’d most definitely have won it at some point, the type of course playing a decisive role. But business dictated he should focus more on road racing. Much as he tries, you can’t be everywhere at once and win it all and there are only so many years to a career.Mistermaumau09-01-2025
- I hope for the sake of others she doesn’t become an expert ;-) As OCexile has pointed out she’s capable enough of winning already. The others won’t be as tolerant of her as the men are of Pog if she starts sweeping everything up.Mistermaumau09-01-2025
- i’m ashamed to admit that i really don’t know enough about mtb and xco to know mathieu’s chances of winning world’s if he dedicates his season to that discipline once the spring classics are over. anyone want to take a moment to enlighten me i’d appreciate your take on it.OCexile09-01-2025
- So he goes to FDJ lol.Suipedali09-01-2025
- Cannot blaim him with those 2 super humansspock12309-01-2025
- Hopefully she won't be a male goat...vappaxbipmv09-01-2025
- Can you name a few others to see of there's a rule? Also, he wasn't an indoor cyclist, he was a normal cyclist that also did Zwift and that's how he got his chance at the highest levelvappaxbipmv09-01-2025