WCS 2025

[Vos]

  Söderqvist wins the time trial of 14,3 km. M.Pedersen still GC leader.

CFF League stage 3 winner = Patrick Kok 
Patrick Kok is still the GC leader with 2 more stages to go.

  Caicedo wins stage 8. Nych still GC leader.

CFF League stage 8 winner = Mitte 
Mitte is still the GC leader with 3 more stages to go.


the next tour starts soon ! ;
Tour de Romandie Féminin ; 4 hours and 17 minutes left to join.
previous winners ; Vos ( 24 ), Mitte ( 23 ), ophiuko ( 22 ).

[Vos]

Tour de Romandie Féminin ;
In my opinion a sort of soap-episode in stage 1 of this tour.     

If you are interested in what happened, up to you to search it / figure it out.
Impossible for me to explain it in just a few sentences, and that is, if I understand this situation / I'm not entirely sure.

Just this ; it seems that 5 top teams were disqualified.
And it seems that WCS deleted this entire tour, so, no CFF League.
Understandable of WCS and even the best thing to do, according to me.

[Aurora Australis]

Quote: "have there with opted to be excluded from the Tour de Romandie Féminin"
I love the UCI wording here.  Pretending that it was the teams' choice.  Soap opera indeed.  They sure aren't putting the sport in a good light.

[ophiuko]

If you go to the tour page in WCS and click on game you can still see the picks in the CFF league  I had Blasi and Zigart 

PCS summary of what happened:
Before the start of the race, the UCI announced a safety test using GPS tracking devices to be conducted during this Tour de Romandië Féminin. As part of this test, each team had to pick one of their riders to have the device installed on their time trial bike. Some teams refused to elect one of their riders, handing the choice back to the UCI. When the UCI in turn refused to pick the riders, the teams who ultimately decided against picking a rider themselves, were refused the start.

I've also read it could have been a matter of financial partners. Apparently those five teams could have some sort of agreement with a GPS systems supplier different from the one that UCI uses, hence why they refused to participate. I can't believe it was just a matter of choosing one of their riders, it must be more than that. Once again, economic interests spoil a sport. Let's hope this is an isolated case and cycling does not go as bad as football has.

[ophiuko]

https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/collaboration-not-coercion-teams-disqualified-over-gps-safety-trackers-at-tour-de-romandie-concerned-about-lack-of-consent-and-fairness/

Teams do not consent to the UCI’s imposition of the use of the tracking devices in the race (or any race for that matter).

However, as the UCI is threatening the Teams with disqualification should a Team resist/refuse this, the Teams will not stop the UCI and/or its partner(s) from attaching tracking devices on its bicycles as the Teams do not have the time to legally challenge this position and believe it would be grossly unfair to all teams, the Teams’ riders, the race organiser and the fans if the Teams are disqualified from the race over a tracking test the UCI wishes to impose as the regulator for for the benefit of itself as a race organiser.

However, the UCI is hereby put on notice that this will be done at the UCI/its partners’ own liability, vis-à-vis the Teams and the relevant riders. We have instructed our staff to take a picture of any person attaching a device on the bicycle of the Team and to request full ID information from such person. Such person will also be held personally liable for any accident, injury or damage resulting from such device.

This article sheds more light on the issue. It has been transpired as if the issue was only about picking one of the riders, but after seeing this communication from the teams it is quite clear that they were not cooperating and threatening with legal actions to UCI individuals if anything happened to any rider that was carrying the device. Ultimately, I understand UCI decision of not taking any risks (a crash could happen for any other reason and then the teams would still put the blame on the tracker device) and not letting the teams take part in the race.

On the other hand, if this was announced with enough notice, teams should have spoken to UCI way before the race to raise their concerns, rather than just not cooperating before the race.

The UCI spokesperson concluded: "It should be noted that most of these teams are part of the Velon organisation which is the owner of its own data transmission system and is working on the development of its own GPS tracking system.

Again, I put the blame on the teams and the economic interests/companies that are behind them which probably has encouraged them not to cooperate with UCI's testing methods.

I'm on UCI's side on this one.

[Vos]

Thanks for the reactions, very interesting to read.

About the method of still seeing the picks in the CFF League.
This tour dissapeared of the tour page.
But if you go to the home page of WCS, there is an overview of upcoming races ;
click the Tour de Romandie Féminin(stage2), then click Game, then click cycling for fun(league).
Another method is to go the 2024 CFF League of this tour, and then click 2025.

Funny to see that I would have started this tour with just 3 picks.  


  GC leader M.Pedersen wins solo the in the past often decisive stage 4 to Vejle.

CFF League stage 4 winners( split victory ) = Mitte     &    ophiuko     
Patrick Kok is still the GC leader.

  Tene wins stage 9. Nych still GC leader.

CFF League stage 9 winner = Vos 
Mitte is still the GC leader.


next race ;
  26½ hours left to join.
previous winners ;
ophiuko ( 24 + 23 ), Animatoca ( 22 ), Kalarratas & Vos ( split victory in '19 ), Averatalm ( 18 ), Lamanzana ( 17 ).

[Vos]

  M.Pedersen wins also the last stage.
Final GC ;  1st M.Pedersen 0:00",  2nd Söderqvist 1:28",  3rd N.Larsen 1:30"

CFF League stage 5 winner = Patrick Kok     

GC winner = Patrick Kok 
Patrick Kok wins also the sprint- and youth jerseys.
Vlominck wins the mountain jersey.

  solo victory of Tivani in stage 10. Nych still GC leader.

CFF League stage 10 winner = Mitte 
Mitte is still the GC leader with 1 more stage to go.

[Vos]

In the picture ; in disbelief Townsend passed the finish line as first, the biggest victory of his career.
As only one left of the early 4-men-break-away that was almost 200 km in the front,
he managed to stay ahead, with a very tiny margin to the sprinting peleton ; 2nd De Lie 0:00" and 3rd Magnier 0:00"

CFF League winner = Vos 

  Reis wins the last stage, a time trial in Lisbon.
Final GC ;  1st Nych 0:00",  2nd Guérin 1:15",  Munton 1:51"

CFF League stage 11 winner = Mitte 

GC winner = Mitte 
Mitte wins also the sprint- and mountain jerseys.
ophiuko wins the youth jersey.

[Vos]

SEASON TR0PHIES 2025 :
( the only rule= when there is an equal amount of victories, the person who won last will be ranked higher )

TOP 10 Divine Champions Trophy

1 Mitte   16  --> winner of this season trophy, if WCS does not add a tour.
2 Vos   8
3Patrick Kok   7
4 ophiuko   4
5 Kalarratas   3
6B.E-L   1
7 Mlb   1
8 Vlominck   1
9 AJFactoryCycling   1
10 HtcHun   1

TOP 9 Chief of Classics Trophy

1 Vos   16
2 Mitte   12
3 ophiuko   12
4 Kalarratas   6
5 WinterIsComing   3
6 Vlominck   3
7Patrick Kok   3
8 Mlb   1
9 JGonmar   1

TOP 22 Emperor of Stage Wins Trophy 
( including prologue )

1 Vos   53
2 Mitte   51
3 ophiuko   45
4 Kalarratas   24
5 Vlominck   23
6Patrick Kok   21
7 Mlb   13
8 Combuijs   12
9 Animatoca   10
10 WinterIsComing   7
11 AJFactoryCycling   6
12 PieterJanVB   5
13 JGonmar   5
14B.E-L   2
15 ValeronIdolo   2
16 Sjiz   2
17 bicis   2
18 edu5   1
19 Foeke   1
20 Aurora Australis   1
21 HtcHun   1
22 azerite   1

TOP 11 Royal Sprint Trophy

1 Vos   11
2 Mitte   8
3Patrick Kok   7
4 ophiuko   7
5 Kalarratas   3
6 Vlominck   2
7 Sjiz   1
8 Mlb   1
9 Animatoca   1
10 AJFactoryCycling   1
11 WinterIsComing   1

TOP 13 King of the Mountains Trophy

1 Kalarratas   10 
2 Mitte   8
3 Vlominck   6
4 Vos   5
5 ophiuko   5
6 Combuijs   2
7 Mlb   2
8 azerite   2
9 ValeronIdolo   1
10 WinterIsComing   1
11 Animatoca   1
12 HtcHun   1
13 bicis   1

TOP 12 Prince of Youth Trophy

1 Vos   11 
2 ophiuko   10
3Patrick Kok   8
4 Mitte   8
5 Vlominck   8
6 Mlb   7
7 Kalarratas   3
8 Animatoca   2
9 azerite   2
10 HtcHun   2
11 AJFactoryCycling   1
12 Combuijs   1

[Vos]

next tours ;
Renewi Tour ;  27 hours left to join.
previous winners ;
Patrick Kok ( 24 ), Mitte ( 23 ), ophiuko ( 21 ), Cosminelul ( 20 ), WinterIsComing ( 19 + 18 ), Txonys ( 17 ), luckeyluc ( 16 ).
  30 hours left to join.
previous winners ; ophiuko ( 24 + 22 ), Kalarratas ( 23 ), Vos ( 21 ), Patrick Kok ( 20 ), WinterIsComing ( 19 ).
  4 days left to join.
previous winners ;
AJFactoryCycling ( 24 ), Aurora Australis ( 23 ), Foeke ( 22 ), Patrick Kok ( 21 ), Kalarratas ( 20 ),
GaoYao ( 19 ), Txonys ( 18 + 17 + 16 ), Tarod ( 15 ).

[Vos]

  Merlier wins sprint stage 1 in Breskens.

CFF League stage 1 winner = Mitte 

  Wærenskjold wins the 3,1 km TT-prologue in Essen.

CFF League stage 1 winner = ophiuko 

[Vos]

  Brennan wins stage 2.

CFF League stage 2 winner = ophiuko 
ophiuko is still the GC leader.

  Kooij wins stage 2.

CFF League stage 2 winner = Vlominck 
Patrick Kok is the new GC leader.

[ophiuko]

No Tour de l'Avenir game this year 

[Vos]

Too bad, I always like the Tour of the Future, thé most prestigious youth tour.

  Narváez wins stage 3. Wærenskjold takes back the GC lead.

CFF League stage 3 winner = Patrick Kok 
ophiuko is still the GC leader with 2 more stages to go.

  vd Poel wins the up-cobblehill-sprint-a-deux vs new GC leader De Lie.

CFF League stage 3 winner = ophiuko 
Combuijs is the new GC leader with 2 more stages to go.

[Aurora Australis]

I give myself 3 stars