I CANNOT Believe What These Two Riders Just Did! Paris-Tours 2025

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The join cycling lantern rouge indoor series is live on Zift. Ride with me every Thursday at 8:00 PM European time with a mix of races and cool group workouts. Sign up through the link in the description below to get started today. Par one of the most uh prestigious autumn classics on the calendar especially one for the the cobbled guys where I think we should move Peru Baya to autumn. We have Da, the gravel worlds, Parour, and Rube in autumn. I think that adds a lot more to the end of the season. Particularly if you’re going to have world championships for all these hilly parkour, which the classics guys just can’t compete in. Why not have something for them with more prestigious races in the autumn? But we have this one here. It’s got a lot of gravel sectors, harsh gravel, too, uh, in the back end of the race interspersed with some hilly, punchy, shorter hills. So only 1,700 m of climbing in the race, but you have to have some punch. So it suits guys like Leaport who won last year, Ve Classics Specialists as well as Hill Classics, guys like Paul Lara, his teammate Jordan Leos was in the breakaway and he flats. And that’s also the story of this race. There’s some sharp gravel and you got to be lucky. You can flat out of this race pretty easily. And with 62ks to go, there were some echelons pre- coverage, but the attacks begin off the sectors. There weren’t really any gaps created on the sectors. It thinned it out. It would create like a group of 30 and then off the sectors. You see the trek were really trying to force something with VTK with Albert Philipsson. Uh TUDA were responding. Matteo Trenton had won this race twice before, but I think when it was a different route, Nicola Bruyard for Michelle was good. I think he goes to world tour next year and we just see yeah attacks again axelons before Josh Tarling Trek and so Matthew Brennan was having to respond maybe too eager or maybe he knew that Kristoff Leaport was the man to defend for Vizma camps comes back so Vizma had controlled early they then control in that phase but the Kathon have got other ideas on this kicker so there’s a steep uh paved kicker that then goes into the shaman deer vineyard Dear Gross, Pierre. So, Big Peter’s uh flat uh gravel sector comes straight afterwards and Vizma fall apart. Camponauts, Koi, Brennan gone, gone, gone. Trenton presses on and all of a sudden a group is created with like 12 strong guys. Dele, but Leaport’s isolated. So, the last hour and 20 of this race, Leaport’s on his own. Trek got numbers. Dathlon got numbers. Tibo Gruel looking good for uh group arama FDA Kovi also attacking and so for Leaport when these groups get created with two trek dele and mult multiple dathlon he’s just gambling he’s hoping they close each other down and don’t cooperate well enough that actually does happen vic was closed down and then a French duo go clear and Paula you can see biscus thinking about closing Grill and then La Perea jumps to his left. He drops the wheel of La Perea. It was in sort of just a the one stalled moment of the race on a nothing hill. I’m not even sure it was a categorized one or anything. They go, they get a gap as other groups came back. And there’s flats, Arabansen flats, Ano Dele flats. So that’s two strong teams. They’re out of the running. UX they’re not going to pace and they’re also riding for UCI points. Like UNOX are not riding for the win. Neither Aophodus. They’re riding to maximize UCI points with multiple riders. So they’re not going to pull, especially not when Abrahamson’s had a flat. So Trek, it was all falling to them. They were now the strongest team in the race with Dathlon the second strongest up the road. Sturban launches VTK Philipsson and they’re trying to just create a group with two of those guys in that maybe will cooperate for Leaport and Trenton who are isolated. This is good to have a a break that’s catchable ahead is good because it stops Tre attacking you. It makes them work. And they were closing. They were trying to get that group together. Here you see Philipsson pacing the climb. Vach going back to the group of Philipsson pacing the port back to the wheel. But then on this steep narrow kickas I don’t know what happened to Vic. We didn’t see. Did he hit the wall? Did he just uncip? He unclips. They were just about to get across. They were on six seconds of Gruell and La Perea. And then Leap’s looking around like, “Hold on, where’s Tre? Why Tre gone from pacing to blocking?” And now sitting at the back and you see Albert Phillipsson or no maybe another Trek rider looking behind a Dathon rider just had rolled off the front. The gap goes from 6 seconds to 42 seconds because Tre waited for Vachic to get paced back in and then now you’re attacking and stopping into a much bigger gap and you you’re not going to close 40 seconds with one attack with one rider and so Leaport tries to thin it out more. It’s still a good situation as I said for him in Trentin. He’s trying to get rid of Visiga. It cuts back. That group’s created. Trenton saying, “Let’s work.” Visa is trying to muck things up. But now you’ve got two trek, but for Trenton and Leaport, the Trek can’t attack them. If they attack them, they’re not going to get across to Lea and Gruel. And then it’s somewhat surprising then to see Leaport attack on this hill. Maybe he was trying to get rid of Biser who was sitting on. Biser is able to close him down, but Vachk’s dropped. And because he’s dropped at this moment, Philipsson’s still thinking about playing the numbers game. Also, because Leaport is faster than him, so he skips a turn with the other two just ahead. So, with him skipping a turn with Biscus skipping a turn, that just means they’re not going to catch the two ahead. When it’s two versus two and the two behind, they’re not going to pull fully committed if they’ve got two guys sitting on their wheel. Eventually, Philipsson gets the call to pull. That was the right one. Vach wasn’t coming back. And yeah, you’re just not going to win the race unless you pull with the gap at 10 seconds with 3.6ks to go. So he and Trick do the right thing. Those three contribute, but for Biser and Dathlon, it’s looking gravy. You got a rider in the group behind in case it comes back. You’ve got Lea who’s maybe equally as fast as Tibo Gruel in front. It’s about 50/50 in the sprint between them. Leaport’s having to work all out and then Lea just stops pulling. 1K to go. I kind of expected this to happen. The two completely bluff each other out. I mean, Dafflon like Bis is not going to win the sprint behind. It’s now too late to play the numbers game. The Kathon do have two, but you can’t roll attacks with 2Ks to go if they’d even stopped earlier. They’re they’re pot committed now to the sprint with Grill. And Grill also just stops pulling. And Bisa, I was thinking, okay, at least you throw in one dig. 700 meters to go. He’s going to attack from behind. At least he forces Leaport. He forces Trenton to close him. No, he goes to the front. So instead of Dathlon and Lea accepting a one-up sprint against Tibo Grill, they wait so that Biziger can do a lead out for Lea to sprint against Trenton and Leaport. So Leaport and Trenton probably couldn’t believe their luck for Tre. They got unlucky with whatever happened to VC in that narrow hill. Maybe they could have played the numbers game, but uh in the end, the two isolated veteran classics riders, both of whom have won this race before, got their chance, perfectly timed to sprint for the win without anyone rolling attacks on them. And Trenton launched first from the backward speed and takes his third parry tour victory. Very, very entertaining last hour I must say. If you want to watch some good racing after Lombardia yesterday, maybe go and watch this on replay. Trent in winning ahead of Leaport Phillips and La Pera Gruel Bisa Vach then got on the sprint behind. Well, I hope you enjoyed the videos this year. This is my last race recap of the year. Quite a good one to finish and uh I guess I’ll see you with the Alula tour in the end of January next year. Chacha.