PREVIEW | Vuelta a Murcia 2025 - UAE the team to beat in hilly classic
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On the 15th of February we have got another high-level one-day race in Spain, this one guided towards the climbers and puncheurs. The Vuelta a Murcia is a race with a lot of history and tradition, and it promises to deliver another exciting edition in 2025. We preview the race ahead.
The consists of a long 200-kilometer route which will be wanted by some riders to prepare for the spring, and it's a race that will feature some climbing. However, as they say, the riders make the race... If it is conservative, then the final ascent shouldn't be hard enough to destroy the peloton, and we could have a reduced group sprint or late attack succeeding.
However, if the Alto Collado Bermejo (7.3Km; 6.9%; 86Km to go) is attacked hard, then we will already have a small group coming out of it, and it can become very tactical in the last hours of racing as was the case in the 2024 edition. The ascent to Alto Cresta del Gallo (4.3Km; 6.6%; 13Km to go) could be the decisive moment of the race, with a short downhill and flat section following to the finish in Murcia.
Prediction Vuelta a Murcia 2025:
*** Brandon McNulty, Tim Wellens
** Aurélien Paret-Peintre, Marc Soler, Clément Champoussin
* Clément Berthet, Nairo Quintana, Gonzalo Serrano, Isaac del Toro, Lorenzo Fortunato, Milan Vader, Eduard Prades, Eric Fagundez, Iván Sosa
Pick: Brandon McNulty
How: Late attack in the final flat meters, UAE might have numerical advantage in the finale.
Original: Rúben Silva
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🚴♀️ Ya conocemos el recorrido de la @VueltaRM
— La 7 Deportes (@la7deportes) January 29, 2025
🏁 Salida desde Jumilla hasta la Gran Vía de Murcia
➡️ Casi 200 km de prueba
🔴 Contará con 3⃣ puertos de montaña
⛰️ Tercera categoría: Alto El Portazgo, Alto Cresta del Gallo
⛰️ Uno de primera categoría: Alto Collado Bermejo pic.twitter.com/6gExLyE4Ju
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- He'll certainly last it and prob ride his own race, at the front 😁
leedorney31-03-2025 - Gaio Primus Caesar Roglus, Rome is waiting for you, Imperator :-)).
maria2024202431-03-2025 - And he probably wasn’t even at the limit ;-) Have to wonder how much Mads could catch up if he’d tune his physique to be as sharp as MVDPs’Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Respect for giving Van Eetvelt credit there.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- He’s already a star for me for HAVING complained about it, the recent trend having been, let them then try to take advantage by making them sign NDAs ;-)Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- Agreed, but if it was a radio thing then all the riders should have the same story and it would be easy to call anyone out. Kind of surprised this isn’t cleared up half officially afterwards, just like the Alaphilippe divorce, seems like once something spreads on the net it kind of gets accepted that everyone wants to have their own truth so no-one bothers to contest anything that’s verifiable anymore, we all just move on.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- maybe. what makes that a LITTLE fishy is that they suddenly hit the gas and started hammering it. even mathieu, who i’ve never heard complain about ANYTHING (other than teenage girls waking him up and being spit on by belgians) was pretty hacked off about the race tactics after the split. i think he was upset for what his teammates had to do, not for the fact he ended up isolated as a result.OCexile31-03-2025
- It seems that in E3 it wasn’t legit to criticise teams that « took advantage » because there was no radio communication about the incident so they couldn’t know to slow down. Only one source so far but should be quite easy to verify.Mistermaumau31-03-2025
- mads SMOKED it at ghent! love that guy. he’s just the best interview ever, always smart and hilarious and with a biting intolerance for stupidity. happy for him. just as a secondary thought, consider that mvdp beat THAT version of mads by a full minute at E3 two days ago. the gap between pog/mvdp and even tho other GREAT riders like mads is kinda staggering to comprehend. this is a time in cycling history that’s certainly worth paying attention to while it lasts.OCexile31-03-2025
- i watched the race. jasper and roodhooft have a legit anger about this. alpecin burned everyone to pull it back. they did the SAME THING after the split in E3, burning all their guys and thus leaving mathieu to fend for himself (which worked out ok because van der poel is van der poel, but still…). yeah, christopher and jasper should be a little pissed this time.OCexile30-03-2025