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Race thread: 🇨🇭 Tour of Switzerland 2025 (June 15 to 22) (www.tourdesuisse.ch)

submitted 5 days ago by Deschanel2017@lemmings.world to c/procycling@lemmy.world

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As the mutants are still on the Critérium du Dauphiné which overlaps with this race (for one day!), this Tour de Suisse should be much more open.

Skjelmose🇩🇰, who won the race 2 years ago, should have been the main favourite but he isn't showing up on this race either, after cancelling his participation on the Dauphiné. Therefore, Almeida (🇵🇹 UAE) becomes the favourite.

PCS profiles: https://www.procyclingstats.com/race/tour-de-suisse/2025/route/stage-profiles

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[–] Deschanel2017@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Out of 4 stages so far, we can say that we already have had 3 days of fine cycling 👍:

one where the peloton/favourites let a too large breakaway go, with a good battle in the breakaway too in the end, rain and wet roads, and Grégoire🇫🇷 taking much risk in a descent to get rid of the 3 others riders who broke away from the breakaway in the last climb;
one with a performance by Simmons🇺🇸, whose breakaway was almost caught up 20 or 25 km away from the goal (gap down to 15-20 seconds) and yet, alone then, managed to keep and increase the gap;
one with the biggest favourite (Almeida🇵🇹) trying to reduce his delay over first day's riders, with lots of different splits with those riders battling behind him.

The main favourite having from the start a significant gap behind not-top-climbers-nor-TT-specialists-but-not-horrible-at-those-specialties-riders ensures that almost all stages will be disputed.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to have a 'handicap' Tour of France. At the start, you'd give Vingegaard a 4 minutes handicap, and Pogatchar an 8 minutes one, and more stages would be interesting at different levels. 😁

[–] Deschanel2017@lemmings.world 1 points 1 day ago

Another hectic day. Grégoire (🇫🇷 FDJ) hadn't recovered from yesterday's efforts, he completely exploded in the relatively short but very hard climb that was to be ridden twice in the final 25 kilometres, and lost the yellow jersey by a huge margin. Vauquelin (🇫🇷 Arkéa) and Alaphilippe (🇫🇷 Tudor) did a much better climb and lost less time to Almeida (🇵🇹 UAE) and Onley (🇬🇧 Picnic) who arrived together, respectively second and first of the stage. Gall (🇦🇹 Décathlon) seems to revive too, contrarily to O'Connor (🇦🇺 Jayco).

Vauquelin is the new leader, Alaphilippe 2^nd^ but they only have a small margin left ahead of Almeida.