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