None, like every year. Something more serious, that Pog is going to win a lot seems very likely to me. That WvA is going to win a cobblestone monument, is possible, but VDP is better and Pog is coming to Flanders. See WvA only have a chance in PR for RVV, he is just not good enough. VDP has always been the better of the two in RVV. Only Pog can beat a good VDP in RVV.
For Ayuso it will be difficult to win Giro d'Italia but he can do it.The problem he will face is Roglic who will be firs favourite to win Giro d'Italia considering that most likely Pogacar and Vingegaard will not start at the Giro d'Italia.Since begining of 2019 season Roglic won 3 out of 5 Grand Tours when there was no both Pogacar and Vingegaard.So that hot I don't think it will happen in 2025 and for me most likely hot take that can happen is Milan winning green jersy at Tour de France.
1. Vingegaard and Pogacar will be separated by less than 1 minute at the end of the Tour. 2. Pogacar will not participate in La Vuelta after his epic battle with Jonas in the Tour to focus on destroying everyone in WC and Lombardy. 3. WVA will beat MVDP in a majestic sprint in Roubaix, finally catching his dream. 4. Remco Evenepoel will not win any prestigious road race (GT / monuments / WC). 5. Mads Pedersen will race smartly (boldest prediction by far) 6. MVDP will be WC in CX and MTB, beat Tadej Pogacar in a sprint in Sanremo before losing another epic battle with the slovenian in Flanders. 7. Roglic will beat Ayuso and Yates on the Giro. 8. Pogacar will attack on Monte Sante Marie again, just because he finds it funny.
MvdP - MTB; Which discipline? Marathon, Short Track, or XCO??? He'll need to get back on the MTB and race it regularly; he can't just turn up like Pidcock can.
@@Andy_ATB I’m no expert in MTB I’m sorry I didn’t even know there were several categories. I was thinking about the Olympic type of race which Pidcock won, but I don’t know which category it is.
Well, on the subject of Hot Takes...in the slightly less prestigious GCN racing ranks, Dan deserves to take a victory lap for predicting the exact order of GCN Presenter drop-outs.
Is GCN obligated to only highlight racing being available on Discovery+ and Max? In the US, Max provides coverage of RCS races, Peacock has ASO races, and FloBikes has Flanders Classics races. I know it'd be complicated to put all that detail in a video (especially country-by-country), but it would be a valuable service if GCN compiled info on how to watch any given race and left the link in the video description. THANKS as always for the wonderful content produced by the team! We're grateful to have GCN!! Happy New Year!
my hot takes: 1. EF wins a grand tour (wishful thinking but would love to see it!) 2. Wout gets it together and is focused on one goal and wins big in Roubaix 3. Marlen Reusser wins le tour because she has nothing to lose 4. Marc Hirschi is the first on Mont Ventoux with Alaphilippe helping him on the Tour 5. no major doping scandal during the season 6. Ghirmay wins a classic 7. Ineos is being dissolved and a big pharma team replaces it
Strade: Pogi Paris-Nice: Jonas Tirreno-Adriatico: Roglic Milan Sanremo: Pedersen Catalunya: Almeida E3: MVDP Gand-Wevelgem: WVA Ronde: Pogi Itzulia Basque: Jonas Roubaix: Milan Amstel: Pogi La Flèche Wallone: Pogi Liège: Pogi Romandie: Remco Giro: Jonas Dauphiné: Jonas Tour de Suisse: Remco Tour: Pogi San Sebastian: Lenny Martinez Vuelta: Remco WC + Chrono: Pogi (The chrono is hard) Il Lombardia: Pogi Révélation (tap in): Pablo Torres, Widar, Seixas, Albert Philipsen, Behrens, Tim Torn Teutenberg Explosion: Valentin Paret-Peintre, Morgado, Magnier, Segaert Best teams: 1UAE 2Trek 3Visma Best little teams: 1 Israel 2 AG2R 3 Bahrein Worst teams : 1 Ineos 2 FDJ 3 Alpecin Philipsen will not win any stage of the Tour.
@louisfourie800 He was very strong in the cobbles last year. I imagine that trek bora and visma will attack MVDP a lot of times to get him tired. After this Milan will beat Philipsen and WVA in the Velodrome
I would watch del toro and abrahamsen this year. They may not win, but I think they will both start to rise toward the top and stand out in the next couple of years.
Great content as always. No idea if any predictions will turn out to be correct though. I just hope that we don’t suffer as many big names being hurt like in 2024….🤞
I think Jonas would win tdf as the course, as seen, is built around all the climbs where he dropped Pogi. Another prediction for me is that MDVP will take Paris-Roubaix but Wout would take the rest when the course is more hilly.
Rather the other way around. VDP is better and more explosive on the short climbs. LBL is too heavy for Van Aert, and he has no chance against Pog and Remco. RVV is between Pog and VDP this year. In PR Van Aert is equal to VDP.
Glad to have been featured on the video after getting 3 out of 4 predictions right. Thanks! Well, since Pogi got me featured on the video, I will take it up a notch. Pogacar makes history again in 2025, winning four Monuments in a single season (MSR, RVV, LBL, and Lombardia) and the not-yet-achieved version (for males at least) of the Triple Crown (Tour, Vuelta, and the WCRR). He'll also reach 30 wins next season. Thanks for the vids this year! Happy New Year!
@@Blog4Justice Not as easy to predict. - MSR is always a lottery and is still the hardest Monument to predict. - Who knows how Pogi vs MVDP will go at RVV 2 years after their battle in 2023? (I still see Pog as the favorite) - Who knows how much better Jonas can go this time at the TDF if he has an uninterrupted preparation? Also, that TDF battle can affect how much fatigued Pog will be ahead of the Vuelta (which is also unconfirmed at this time)
@@monsiogabar525At the very least it is not a very sophisticated prediction: Pogi will win everything, after winning everything except MSR last year. It would be more interesting if you could predict which races he will nothing.
@@monsiogabar525 Of course, it's a big ask, but he has never been better placed to achieve it. - After Strade Bianche, he has thirteen days in which to prepare for MSR, and the team will be laser-focused on that objective. Pogacar has placed 5th, 4th and 3rd respectively in the last three editions, so he's an established contender. It's a tough nut to crack, but this is an itch he has to scratch and he'll be bringing his A++ game. - I'd like to see MVDP break the record for wins at the Ronde, but that will have to wait until 2026 (when Pog will probably be otherwise occupied). - Jonas will be in better shape for the Tour, no doubt, but I still think Pogacar will win convincingly (taking at least four stages) - Before the course was announced, I wasn't sure whether Pog would attempt the Vuelta, but the hilly/mountainous parcours across northern Spain offers an abundance of opportunities and is climatically favourable; it should be just be a matter of by what margin he wins, and how many stages he chooses to take in the process (six or more, quite possibly), bearing in mind that he will need to keep enough in the tank for the WC in Kigali on 28.09. The team has hinted that he will ride the Vuelta, but confirmation should come mid-January. With the inclusion of the Vuelta, Pogacar's 2025 schedule so far adds up to 67 days of racing (nine more than in 2024), making thirty wins a distinct possibility: 17.02 UAE Tour (7 stages) -23.02 08.03 Strade Bianche 22.03 Milano-Sanremo 28.03 E3 Saxo Classic 30.03 Gent-Wevelgem 06.04 Ronde van Vlaanderen 20.04 Amstel Gold Race 23.04 La Flèche Wallonne 27.04 Liège-Bastogne-Liège 08.06 Critérium du Dauphiné (8 stages) -15.06 05.07 Tour de France -27.07 23.08 Vuelta a España **TBC** -14.09 28.09 UCI Road World Championship [04.10 Giro dell'Emilia] ?? [07.10 Tre Valli Varesine] ?? 11.10 Il Lombardia Pogacari finished 2024 in 17th place in the ProCyclingStats all-time rankings; by the end of 2025, if all goes according to expectations, he should have bumped Jacques Anquetil off 7th spot. Happy New Year! P.S. World Championships in Montreal in 2026 and Haute-Savoie in 2027 suggest an opportunity for four consecutive titles...
My predictions (mostly hopes) -Wout wins again (whatever it is, but he does win). -Jonas winning again -Pog doing Pog things (winning Milan-San Remo, and races he hasn't won yet) -Roglič winning Tour de Suisse (because that's the only one-week WT race he hasn't won yet) -We have a real EPIC quartet battle on TdF (Roglič, Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel battling it out for the ages) -Vollering winning with a team entirely behind her -Derek Gee having more wins (and more attacks) -Remco doing Remco things (with no crashes) -And for us viewers: having a blast watching all these races during 2025!
I do hope Wout wins a couple races in 2025. He and Visma were snakebit in 2024. I think Jonas wins one grand tour, perhaps the Giro. I believe Tadej will defend his Tour de France victory and will once again finish in yellow.
Your predictions on the presenter drop race was pretty spot on! So you're either a genius or... you've used all your luck already and none become a reality
World Tour Racing Predictions: 1. TdF helicopter pilots will threaten a strike/action unless they get a contract vs drones 2. A limit on the armada of motorcycles for racing events will be announced 3. Change to age limits for WT Pro riders
Definitely it will be an interesting season. We'll see the continued battle between Jonas and Tadej with Primoz in tow to take where those two will mess up. And Dan, a true broom vagen Volkswagen should have a broom on it....
@@tobiasurey1434 I doubt Demi can win everything. She will probably be selective. Also it helps to work for others when you are on a TEAM. Pay it forward or back. It doesn't matter which.
Pogi will win MSR, MVDP in his best form ever will win RVV, but gets a flat during a crucial point in Paris-Roubaix after which WVA grabs the win in front of a chasing Philipsen - Pedersen, Pogi will dominate LBL and Lombardia. Furthermore, Roglic wins the Giro just ahead of Ayuso & Yates, Pogi wins the Tour after a fierce, close battle with Vingegaard and doubles up with a Vuelta win, after which he will demolish everyone once more in the WC RR. Remco will get his share by winning the WC TT title
Pogacar to win all 5 monuments plus Tour and WC RR. Paul Seixas to win a stage in the Dauphine. AWP to win a classic. Del Toro to finish top 5 in the Giro and ahead of Ayuso. Hottest take of all - The Cipressa finally sees the race winning move in MSR after so long in the shadows of the Poggio.
1. Vollering wins TDF Femmes (she's finally got a support squad) 2. SD Workx throws away at least two GT or Monument wins with their usual tactical ineptitude 3. Pogacar doesn't win a GT but murders everyone at the WC RR 4. Vingegaard wins the TDF 5. XDS Astana does not win a WT level race
Great takes 👀 Although 1. is not that hot and 2. seems unlikely since they now have a clear leader and AvdB is not like Demi. But as i said, great takes
My hot takes for the 5 Monuments + the World Championships: 1. Sanremo --> Pogacar 2. Flanders --> Van Aert 3. Roubaix --> Van Aert 4. Liege --> Evenepoel 5. Lombardia --> Pogacar 5+1 Worlds --> Vingegaard At the end of 2025 we will see how many I got wrong 😄 Happy holidays everybody!
My hot takes: 1. Vingegaard will podium the WC RR 2. Roglic won’t win the Giro 3. Another bardiani rider will shine at the Giro and get signed by a WT team for the 2026 season 4. Jack Burke will get a trainee contract in the mid season on a WT or PC team 5. Alaphilippe will podium a stage in the tour if Tudor gets a wildcard 6. Andreas Kron will win a 1.1 race or a minor classic for Uno-x 7. Wout Van Aert doesn’t win any major classic 8. Pogacar will accomplish all of his goals for 2025 (except Milan-san remo) 9. Roglic is not on Bora after the end of the 2025 season 10. Laurence Pithie will win either Gent-Wevelgem or Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 😉
VDP wins flanders WVA wins roubaix Vingegaard has very though battle with pogi but still loses the tour by a tiny bit. Evenepoel tries for world champion double. And might do it. Evenepoel wins a gran tour. Bold one incomming: gc-kuss takes grand tour win again!! (Really hoping for this one) Nys takes a classic win Jorgensen takes a monument Hope i get some right
I think they're generally safe bets Dan! No real leftfield shockers. What about? neither Jonas or Tadej make it to the end of the Tour through crashes but Primos still doesn't win cos Remco beats him but with a margin under 15 seconds! Put a tenner on that happening!😊
I soooo hope Jonathan Milan is made Trek's #1 Sprinter. He was amazing in the Giro. So many more opportunities in the Tour and Mads has not been delivering.
nah, Pog wouldn't have the same monumental success for 2025. I'm not rooting for something bad to happen to him but I do think having Vinegegard around would make it more of a challenge for Pog. either way, would be entertaining for us viewers.
If Vlab sends a line up that is full of climbers with Wva just like the UAE line up this year. Then i got Jonas winning the TdF25 lets assume Jonas is healthy as his 2022 and 2023
1 van gils top 3 in amstel, fleche and liege. 2 van eetvelt wins at least 1 GT stage. 3 pedersen wins gent and paris roubaix. 4 mvdp beats pogi in RVV. 5 pithie wins E3. 5 de lie learns how to properly sprint. 6 Axel Zingle riceives the "Jorgenson" treatment and becomes a huge threat in one day races and a great domestique in stage races. 7 Marco Brenner takes the maglia azzurra at giro d'italia. 8 O'connor pulls another insane upset out of his butt and he gets a top 3 in a major race. 9 niklas berhens demolishes a bunch of second level races No risk no glory
Not to forget women's cycling. 1 ELB gets an underwhelming season but wins the WC. 2 Kopecky beats vollering in the tour de France fammes only thanks to bonus seconds. 3 Neve Bradbury wins on jabel hafeet, then gets a top 3 in the tour 4 Pauline ferrand prevot gets strong comeback season (at least 1 win and top 3 in some one day races) 5 Charlotte kool dethrones Lorena Wiebes as the strongest sprinter in the world. 6 Cat Ferguson wins 3 pro level races
1. Vingegaard will win the Tour De France by a whisker 2. WVA will finally lose his patience with Visma using him as a domestique, get proper classics leadership and win at least one cobbled classic, probably Roubaix 3. MVDP will win Flanders 4. Pogacar will have his best season for wins, despite losing the TdF 5. Pidcock will win Amstel Gold
My guess is that Pogacar will win the tour-vuelta double and three monuments but will not win the world championship. Because Remco will win it. The other two monuments will be won between Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert. Roglic will win the giro and will crash out at the tour.
UAE is going to do a crazy fast leadout on the Poggio and Pogi will win MSR (against all odds). Pogi once again beats Jonas at the Tour. Jasper P. wins Roubaix and the green jersey at the Tour. VdP beats Pogi and Wout in a sprint finish at Flanders. Remco takes a third LBL and Pogi a fifth Lombardia. And, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm completely off with my predictions, but, anyways, it's going to be a really exciting season!
@@cryptocalc6884 Sounds entirely plausible but Pog will do everything he can to avoid said 3 man sprint in Flanders. He would know he would lose if it comes to that.
1. Ayuso will not end top 10 in giro. 2. Kopeky win IF ... TdF is a flat liner... or If she get enough time before the climbs. 3. WVA monuments wins in 2025, 0!... why MVD PoG Remco... and the luck of some french men or Italian as always 4. Van der Bregen up to some surprise... I don't see that happen 5. Bora to take the Giro! and some But not yellow IF and only IF Rog makes to giro start line 6. J Milan well he is a rocket ... in green ... my money still on grimay back t o back My own prediction MVDP back on the rainbow jersey
VERY HOT takes 🔥🔥🔥: 1. Giro will NOT be won by UAE, Visma or Red Bull 2. Pogacar wins again the Tour (this time with tight margins against Vingegaard) 3. Almeida will win La Vuelta (if Pogi doesn't go) 4. Pogacar finally wins Milano-Sanremo 5. Mathieu van der Poel wins the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix double again 6. Jonathan Milan wins the Tour de France Green jersey (agree with this one!) 7. Remco & Roglic will not podium any Grand Tour
Wally van Aert to win two monuments. Demi to beat Kopecky plenty of times. Lucinda Brand to win CX World cup team Jayco to have a great year Trek womens and mens have big wins and year.
You're dreaming Pogi are MVDP for Ronde, the best Wout is behind us. Pidcock will never win a monument, he is not that good in road. Enric Mas will never win the Vuelta, always anyone better than him
What!? MVDP will wipe off cobbles clean anyday with that Jonas' domestique. Wout's only hope is getting into a postman van and opening doors when he sees a rainbow jersey approaching.
Jonas had 2 collapsed lungs and unknown amount of muscle mass loss when he rode the tour de france and i think Pogacar is stronger next year to , but im curious about Jonas who hopefull have rebuild the muscle mass he lost this year .. will it be enough ? .. time will tell :)
How many years do you think Tadej needs to break Mark's TdF stage wins? Tadej is 26 and has 18 stages more to win to equal Mark's record. I think by the time Tadej is 31 he could have a new stage wins record. Wout deserves to win a monument again and if not for bad karma he would have had few more wins already. I wish Tadej wins Milan - San Remo only to see him gain few pounds and try winning Paris-Roubaix. He said that the only way he will race Paris Roubaix if he had won Milan San Remo. Maybe a Milan-San Remo win from Tadej would save Mark's stage record.
Tom precook will win Tour de France or the giro is he competes. MVDP will win the uci mountain biking and pogi will dominate all of the cobbled classics etc.
Congratulations on your pronunciation of Kasia Niewiadoma's name! Thank you for taking the time to improve it. I appreciate it's not a priority for circa half of cycling Anglosphere but for those of us who die a little with every Pogakar, Rojelic and Kasya, it's a welcome relief. There is a happy middle to be found between "pronouncing every Dutch name with a brewing spit" snobbery and "English no can speak forrin" snobbery. The latter usually cultivated by a made up notion of limited ability of "true Brits" to acquire fluency in foreign languages, which is more like self fulfilling prophecy than reality. You only need to hear Bradley Wiggins effortlessly switch between less than posh English accent and fluent French.
Doubt it...Kopecky is getting stronger in GC and the femme classics, and Anna van der Breggen is coming back to replace vollering. Early testing shows van der Breggen has her old form back. SDW will still be winning, bank on that.
@ No Reusser. No Vollering. AvdB is past her prime and will probably be put out to pasture after one season. So I doubt SDW will be able to compete as it has.
1. Derek Gee will podium at the Giro. 2. Vingegaard will defeat Pogačar at the Tour, the way he did in 2023. 3. Van Aert will win Flanders and Paris-Roubaix 4. MVDP will have a tough season
nothing will be done about rider safety. ( more could be done about road furniture and too many cars and motos)Also really stupid sprint finish layouts)
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None, like every year. Something more serious, that Pog is going to win a lot seems very likely to me. That WvA is going to win a cobblestone monument, is possible, but VDP is better and Pog is coming to Flanders. See WvA only have a chance in PR for RVV, he is just not good enough. VDP has always been the better of the two in RVV. Only Pog can beat a good VDP in RVV.
For Ayuso it will be difficult to win Giro d'Italia but he can do it.The problem he will face is Roglic who will be firs favourite to win Giro d'Italia considering that most likely Pogacar and Vingegaard will not start at the Giro d'Italia.Since begining of 2019 season Roglic won 3 out of 5 Grand Tours when there was no both Pogacar and Vingegaard.So that hot I don't think it will happen in 2025 and for me most likely hot take that can happen is Milan winning green jersy at Tour de France.
Alaphilippe will (finally) win Liege Bastogne Liege in 2025
My predictions:
1. SD Workx will get their tactics wrong at least once.
2. Pog will win something
3. Roglic will crash at least once
Here, I said it
i dont know man, bold predictions
Three completely safe predictions. They will all come true. Anyone want to bet against that? No, I didn't expect that either.
@@larsmunch4536 I think that was intentional…
@@eeemilfhunter99eee67 I aint in it for the game mate, I am in it for the winning 😂😂
1. Vingegaard and Pogacar will be separated by less than 1 minute at the end of the Tour.
2. Pogacar will not participate in La Vuelta after his epic battle with Jonas in the Tour to focus on destroying everyone in WC and Lombardy.
3. WVA will beat MVDP in a majestic sprint in Roubaix, finally catching his dream.
4. Remco Evenepoel will not win any prestigious road race (GT / monuments / WC).
5. Mads Pedersen will race smartly (boldest prediction by far)
6. MVDP will be WC in CX and MTB, beat Tadej Pogacar in a sprint in Sanremo before losing another epic battle with the slovenian in Flanders.
7. Roglic will beat Ayuso and Yates on the Giro.
8. Pogacar will attack on Monte Sante Marie again, just because he finds it funny.
MvdP - MTB; Which discipline? Marathon, Short Track, or XCO??? He'll need to get back on the MTB and race it regularly; he can't just turn up like Pidcock can.
@@Andy_ATB I’m no expert in MTB I’m sorry I didn’t even know there were several categories. I was thinking about the Olympic type of race which Pidcock won, but I don’t know which category it is.
@@Andy_ATBXCO, he said that he hesitate to do the second part of his season in mtb
While I don't believe half of that will materialize, kudos for some very well thought out predictions. 🙂
Im a fan of #8😂
Well, on the subject of Hot Takes...in the slightly less prestigious GCN racing ranks, Dan deserves to take a victory lap for predicting the exact order of GCN Presenter drop-outs.
Thibau Nys will win an Ardenne classic
Is GCN obligated to only highlight racing being available on Discovery+ and Max? In the US, Max provides coverage of RCS races, Peacock has ASO races, and FloBikes has Flanders Classics races. I know it'd be complicated to put all that detail in a video (especially country-by-country), but it would be a valuable service if GCN compiled info on how to watch any given race and left the link in the video description. THANKS as always for the wonderful content produced by the team! We're grateful to have GCN!! Happy New Year!
my hot takes:
1. EF wins a grand tour (wishful thinking but would love to see it!)
2. Wout gets it together and is focused on one goal and wins big in Roubaix
3. Marlen Reusser wins le tour because she has nothing to lose
4. Marc Hirschi is the first on Mont Ventoux with Alaphilippe helping him on the Tour
5. no major doping scandal during the season
6. Ghirmay wins a classic
7. Ineos is being dissolved and a big pharma team replaces it
Strade: Pogi
Paris-Nice: Jonas
Tirreno-Adriatico: Roglic
Milan Sanremo: Pedersen
Catalunya: Almeida
E3: MVDP
Gand-Wevelgem: WVA
Ronde: Pogi
Itzulia Basque: Jonas
Roubaix: Milan
Amstel: Pogi
La Flèche Wallone: Pogi
Liège: Pogi
Romandie: Remco
Giro: Jonas
Dauphiné: Jonas
Tour de Suisse: Remco
Tour: Pogi
San Sebastian: Lenny Martinez
Vuelta: Remco
WC + Chrono: Pogi (The chrono is hard)
Il Lombardia: Pogi
Révélation (tap in): Pablo Torres, Widar, Seixas, Albert Philipsen, Behrens, Tim Torn Teutenberg
Explosion: Valentin Paret-Peintre, Morgado, Magnier, Segaert
Best teams: 1UAE
2Trek
3Visma
Best little teams: 1 Israel
2 AG2R
3 Bahrein
Worst teams :
1 Ineos
2 FDJ
3 Alpecin
Philipsen will not win any stage of the Tour.
An Alpecin and MVDP hater....are you mental sick?
Roubaix is verry bold
@louisfourie800 He was very strong in the cobbles last year. I imagine that trek bora and visma will attack MVDP a lot of times to get him tired. After this Milan will beat Philipsen and WVA in the Velodrome
My main takeaway is that you hate Alpecin.
I would watch del toro and abrahamsen this year. They may not win, but I think they will both start to rise toward the top and stand out in the next couple of years.
Great content as always. No idea if any predictions will turn out to be correct though. I just hope that we don’t suffer as many big names being hurt like in 2024….🤞
I think Jonas would win tdf as the course, as seen, is built around all the climbs where he dropped Pogi. Another prediction for me is that MDVP will take Paris-Roubaix but Wout would take the rest when the course is more hilly.
Rather the other way around. VDP is better and more explosive on the short climbs. LBL is too heavy for Van Aert, and he has no chance against Pog and Remco.
RVV is between Pog and VDP this year. In PR Van Aert is equal to VDP.
which are the others?
@@Nescio527 Yeah. Make sense
The only wins we’ll see from Jonas will be in 1 week stage races. He will not race the Giro, if he does it’s because he knows he cannot win the Tour.
Glad to have been featured on the video after getting 3 out of 4 predictions right. Thanks! Well, since Pogi got me featured on the video, I will take it up a notch.
Pogacar makes history again in 2025, winning four Monuments in a single season (MSR, RVV, LBL, and Lombardia) and the not-yet-achieved version (for males at least) of the Triple Crown (Tour, Vuelta, and the WCRR). He'll also reach 30 wins next season.
Thanks for the vids this year! Happy New Year!
You don't have to be Mystic Meg to foresee that! 🙂
@@Blog4Justice Not as easy to predict.
- MSR is always a lottery and is still the hardest Monument to predict.
- Who knows how Pogi vs MVDP will go at RVV 2 years after their battle in 2023? (I still see Pog as the favorite)
- Who knows how much better Jonas can go this time at the TDF if he has an uninterrupted preparation? Also, that TDF battle can affect how much fatigued Pog will be ahead of the Vuelta (which is also unconfirmed at this time)
@@monsiogabar525At the very least it is not a very sophisticated prediction: Pogi will win everything, after winning everything except MSR last year. It would be more interesting if you could predict which races he will nothing.
@@monsiogabar525 Of course, it's a big ask, but he has never been better placed to achieve it.
- After Strade Bianche, he has thirteen days in which to prepare for MSR, and the team will be laser-focused on that objective. Pogacar has placed 5th, 4th and 3rd respectively in the last three editions, so he's an established contender. It's a tough nut to crack, but this is an itch he has to scratch and he'll be bringing his A++ game.
- I'd like to see MVDP break the record for wins at the Ronde, but that will have to wait until 2026 (when Pog will probably be otherwise occupied).
- Jonas will be in better shape for the Tour, no doubt, but I still think Pogacar will win convincingly (taking at least four stages)
- Before the course was announced, I wasn't sure whether Pog would attempt the Vuelta, but the hilly/mountainous parcours across northern Spain offers an abundance of opportunities and is climatically favourable; it should be just be a matter of by what margin he wins, and how many stages he chooses to take in the process (six or more, quite possibly), bearing in mind that he will need to keep enough in the tank for the WC in Kigali on 28.09. The team has hinted that he will ride the Vuelta, but confirmation should come mid-January.
With the inclusion of the Vuelta, Pogacar's 2025 schedule so far adds up to 67 days of racing (nine more than in 2024), making thirty wins a distinct possibility:
17.02 UAE Tour (7 stages)
-23.02
08.03 Strade Bianche
22.03 Milano-Sanremo
28.03 E3 Saxo Classic
30.03 Gent-Wevelgem
06.04 Ronde van Vlaanderen
20.04 Amstel Gold Race
23.04 La Flèche Wallonne
27.04 Liège-Bastogne-Liège
08.06 Critérium du Dauphiné (8 stages)
-15.06
05.07 Tour de France
-27.07
23.08 Vuelta a España **TBC**
-14.09
28.09 UCI Road World Championship
[04.10 Giro dell'Emilia] ??
[07.10 Tre Valli Varesine] ??
11.10 Il Lombardia
Pogacari finished 2024 in 17th place in the ProCyclingStats all-time rankings; by the end of 2025, if all goes according to expectations, he should have bumped Jacques Anquetil off 7th spot.
Happy New Year!
P.S. World Championships in Montreal in 2026 and Haute-Savoie in 2027 suggest an opportunity for four consecutive titles...
Thanks Dan and crew for another great year of stuff ! Be well , eh ? Happy New Year , bit shit over here .
1. Pogacar
2. Pogacar
3. POGACAR
Thanks Dan, always a pleasure to watch your reports.Have a happy and healthy new year.
My predictions (mostly hopes)
-Wout wins again (whatever it is, but he does win).
-Jonas winning again
-Pog doing Pog things (winning Milan-San Remo, and races he hasn't won yet)
-Roglič winning Tour de Suisse (because that's the only one-week WT race he hasn't won yet)
-We have a real EPIC quartet battle on TdF (Roglič, Pogačar, Vingegaard and Evenepoel battling it out for the ages)
-Vollering winning with a team entirely behind her
-Derek Gee having more wins (and more attacks)
-Remco doing Remco things (with no crashes)
-And for us viewers: having a blast watching all these races during 2025!
Emil Herzog and Johannes Staune-Mittet will make noise next season, hopefully a win
Honestly you are looking healthy Dan. Quite literally keep up your fitness!
At 3:23 Dan says MVDP has won 7 monuments. Isn’t it actually 6? San Remo, Flanders x3, Roubaix x2.
Will you do a neo’s to Watch in 2025 video? There’s a great group this year
Pidcock will have his best season yet not sure what races but he’s going to crush it
I do hope Wout wins a couple races in 2025. He and Visma were snakebit in 2024. I think Jonas wins one grand tour, perhaps the Giro. I believe Tadej will defend his Tour de France victory and will once again finish in yellow.
Yes, Lotte will win the TdF, Adam Yates will win the Giro, Wout will win Paris Roubaix, Jonas V will win the TdF.
I think Pogi will be even stronger this year. He is in his PEAK right now and unbeatable
Your predictions on the presenter drop race was pretty spot on! So you're either a genius or... you've used all your luck already and none become a reality
Demi Vollering wins the TdFFAZ by at least 2 minutes.
World Tour Racing Predictions:
1. TdF helicopter pilots will threaten a strike/action unless they get a contract vs drones
2. A limit on the armada of motorcycles for racing events will be announced
3. Change to age limits for WT Pro riders
Just thinking about these predictions gets me excited for 2025. I just want these big named riders to stay healthy (sorry, Remco)….then bring it on!
Definitely it will be an interesting season. We'll see the continued battle between Jonas and Tadej with Primoz in tow to take where those two will mess up. And Dan, a true broom vagen Volkswagen should have a broom on it....
Elise Chabbey wins Tour de Suisse
Only if Demi was ill Right before 😅
@@tobiasurey1434 I doubt Demi can win everything. She will probably be selective. Also it helps to work for others when you are on a TEAM. Pay it forward or back. It doesn't matter which.
I predict Dan will start riding his bike regularly again in 2025 and enter a body building comp😊
Pogi will win MSR, MVDP in his best form ever will win RVV, but gets a flat during a crucial point in Paris-Roubaix after which WVA grabs the win in front of a chasing Philipsen - Pedersen, Pogi will dominate LBL and Lombardia. Furthermore, Roglic wins the Giro just ahead of Ayuso & Yates, Pogi wins the Tour after a fierce, close battle with Vingegaard and doubles up with a Vuelta win, after which he will demolish everyone once more in the WC RR. Remco will get his share by winning the WC TT title
Pogacar to win all 5 monuments plus Tour and WC RR.
Paul Seixas to win a stage in the Dauphine.
AWP to win a classic.
Del Toro to finish top 5 in the Giro and ahead of Ayuso.
Hottest take of all - The Cipressa finally sees the race winning move in MSR after so long in the shadows of the Poggio.
He is not going to Roubaix, so that is a very hot take indeed
@ big IF but if he mins MSR and RVV he will definitely line up for Roubaix
1. Vollering wins TDF Femmes (she's finally got a support squad)
2. SD Workx throws away at least two GT or Monument wins with their usual tactical ineptitude
3. Pogacar doesn't win a GT but murders everyone at the WC RR
4. Vingegaard wins the TDF
5. XDS Astana does not win a WT level race
Great takes 👀
Although 1. is not that hot and 2. seems unlikely since they now have a clear leader and AvdB is not like Demi.
But as i said, great takes
100 percent healthy Jonas with full of moutain domestique with Wva clears Pogacar and his UAE with full of mountain domestiques.
@@LeonardoBelogot-u4b😂😂😂😂😂
@@LeonardoBelogot-u4b I hope we'll get the answer next summer. I genuinely have no clue about which one is above the other.
My hot takes for the 5 Monuments + the World Championships:
1. Sanremo --> Pogacar
2. Flanders --> Van Aert
3. Roubaix --> Van Aert
4. Liege --> Evenepoel
5. Lombardia --> Pogacar
5+1 Worlds --> Vingegaard
At the end of 2025 we will see how many I got wrong 😄
Happy holidays everybody!
My hot takes:
1. Vingegaard will podium the WC RR
2. Roglic won’t win the Giro
3. Another bardiani rider will shine at the Giro and get signed by a WT team for the 2026 season
4. Jack Burke will get a trainee contract in the mid season on a WT or PC team
5. Alaphilippe will podium a stage in the tour if Tudor gets a wildcard
6. Andreas Kron will win a 1.1 race or a minor classic for Uno-x
7. Wout Van Aert doesn’t win any major classic
8. Pogacar will accomplish all of his goals for 2025 (except Milan-san remo)
9. Roglic is not on Bora after the end of the 2025 season
10. Laurence Pithie will win either Gent-Wevelgem or Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne
😉
*MVDP has 6 monuments not 7 (and a WC ofcourse)
He's got lots of WC wins......
@@Andy_ATB we are only talking about road race here.
Milan for green is a quite cold take
Kasia to win TdF again😉
Happy new 🎉 year
Lotte Kopecky will win Paris Roubaix and Tour De France
VDP wins flanders
WVA wins roubaix
Vingegaard has very though battle with pogi but still loses the tour by a tiny bit.
Evenepoel tries for world champion double. And might do it.
Evenepoel wins a gran tour.
Bold one incomming: gc-kuss takes grand tour win again!! (Really hoping for this one)
Nys takes a classic win
Jorgensen takes a monument
Hope i get some right
I think they're generally safe bets Dan! No real leftfield shockers. What about? neither Jonas or Tadej make it to the end of the Tour through crashes but Primos still doesn't win cos Remco beats him but with a margin under 15 seconds! Put a tenner on that happening!😊
I soooo hope Jonathan Milan is made Trek's #1 Sprinter. He was amazing in the Giro. So many more opportunities in the Tour and Mads has not been delivering.
nah, Pog wouldn't have the same monumental success for 2025. I'm not rooting for something bad to happen to him but I do think having Vinegegard around would make it more of a challenge for Pog. either way, would be entertaining for us viewers.
Dan's hot take was proven true for the GCN presenter end of year challenge 😆😆
If Vlab sends a line up that is full of climbers with Wva just like the UAE line up this year. Then i got Jonas winning the TdF25 lets assume Jonas is healthy as his 2022 and 2023
Jonas will never win a TdF again. Ever.
@@tonyg3091 nice
AvdB retires AGAIN at end of the season. Put out to pasture again
I hope and pray for the WVA hot take
1 van gils top 3 in amstel, fleche and liege.
2 van eetvelt wins at least 1 GT stage.
3 pedersen wins gent and paris roubaix.
4 mvdp beats pogi in RVV.
5 pithie wins E3.
5 de lie learns how to properly sprint.
6 Axel Zingle riceives the "Jorgenson" treatment and becomes a huge threat in one day races and a great domestique in stage races.
7 Marco Brenner takes the maglia azzurra at giro d'italia.
8 O'connor pulls another insane upset out of his butt and he gets a top 3 in a major race.
9 niklas berhens demolishes a bunch of second level races
No risk no glory
Not to forget women's cycling.
1 ELB gets an underwhelming season but wins the WC.
2 Kopecky beats vollering in the tour de France fammes only thanks to bonus seconds.
3 Neve Bradbury wins on jabel hafeet, then gets a top 3 in the tour
4 Pauline ferrand prevot gets strong comeback season (at least 1 win and top 3 in some one day races)
5 Charlotte kool dethrones Lorena Wiebes as the strongest sprinter in the world.
6 Cat Ferguson wins 3 pro level races
1. Vingegaard will win the Tour De France by a whisker
2. WVA will finally lose his patience with Visma using him as a domestique, get proper classics leadership and win at least one cobbled classic, probably Roubaix
3. MVDP will win Flanders
4. Pogacar will have his best season for wins, despite losing the TdF
5. Pidcock will win Amstel Gold
I have a hot take; the UCI will ban hookless rims in the pro peloton 🙂
Dan to do Manchester to London
YESSSS……😊
Sure, Pogacar's gonna be even better for this 2025
Demi Vollering goes back to winning ways and wins loads of stuff
Tom Pidcock gets dropped in the tdf again but wins another ‘monument’
My guess is that Pogacar will win the tour-vuelta double and three monuments but will not win the world championship. Because Remco will win it.
The other two monuments will be won between Mathieu van der Poel and Wout van Aert.
Roglic will win the giro and will crash out at the tour.
Roglic comes 2nd in TdF behind Pog.
Remco beats Pog in a classic.
VDBreggen wins 2 classics/monuments.
Jonas wins the world RR.
Bring back tandem tour de France
John Andrews getting shown the door 😂
VDP has "only" won 6 Monuments
UAE is going to do a crazy fast leadout on the Poggio and Pogi will win MSR (against all odds). Pogi once again beats Jonas at the Tour. Jasper P. wins Roubaix and the green jersey at the Tour. VdP beats Pogi and Wout in a sprint finish at Flanders. Remco takes a third LBL and Pogi a fifth Lombardia. And, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm completely off with my predictions, but, anyways, it's going to be a really exciting season!
@@cryptocalc6884 Sounds entirely plausible but Pog will do everything he can to avoid said 3 man sprint in Flanders. He would know he would lose if it comes to that.
I think that the only bad thing that you said is that Pogi will not win Ronde. He will destroy VDP. Van Aert is not even a rival.
1. Ayuso will not end top 10 in giro.
2. Kopeky win IF ... TdF is a flat liner... or If she get enough time before the climbs.
3. WVA monuments wins in 2025, 0!... why MVD PoG Remco... and the luck of some french men or Italian as always
4. Van der Bregen up to some surprise... I don't see that happen
5. Bora to take the Giro! and some But not yellow IF and only IF Rog makes to giro start line
6. J Milan well he is a rocket ... in green ... my money still on grimay back t o back
My own prediction MVDP back on the rainbow jersey
VERY HOT takes 🔥🔥🔥:
1. Giro will NOT be won by UAE, Visma or Red Bull
2. Pogacar wins again the Tour (this time with tight margins against Vingegaard)
3. Almeida will win La Vuelta (if Pogi doesn't go)
4. Pogacar finally wins Milano-Sanremo
5. Mathieu van der Poel wins the Ronde van Vlaanderen and Paris-Roubaix double again
6. Jonathan Milan wins the Tour de France Green jersey (agree with this one!)
7. Remco & Roglic will not podium any Grand Tour
Wally van Aert to win two monuments.
Demi to beat Kopecky plenty of times.
Lucinda Brand to win CX World cup
team Jayco to have a great year
Trek womens and mens have big wins and year.
Primoz wins the Giro again
Wout wins Flanders
Pidcock wins a monument
Tour is Pogi but not easy
Enric Mas wins the Vuelta
You're dreaming Pogi are MVDP for Ronde, the best Wout is behind us. Pidcock will never win a monument, he is not that good in road. Enric Mas will never win the Vuelta, always anyone better than him
Pogacar will win most of the races on the Colnago Y1RS!!
What!? MVDP will wipe off cobbles clean anyday with that Jonas' domestique. Wout's only hope is getting into a postman van and opening doors when he sees a rainbow jersey approaching.
Red Bull Bora will win more then three coblle classics
Jonas had 2 collapsed lungs and unknown amount of muscle mass loss when he rode the tour de france
and i think Pogacar is stronger next year to , but im curious about Jonas who hopefull have rebuild the muscle mass he lost this year .. will it be enough ? .. time will tell :)
@@gandalf6700 Jonas never had any muscle mass to speak of in the first place 😂
@@tonyg3091 not true... right before the 24' crash he had significantly built his muscle mass...google some pics
@@tonyg3091 ????
Pogacar came exausted to TDF after winning the classics and giro..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I can make a very safe prediction: MVDP will win a 7th Cyclocross world title
Which one was corrected in 2024?
Alan Hatherly wins a TDF stage
Sanremo: pogi flanders: vdp roubaix: van aert lbl: pogi Lombardia: evenepoel
Giro: vingegaard tour: pogacar vuelta: pogacar
Wc: vdp
Wc tt: van aert
Ec: evenepoel
Ec tt: evenepoel
Wc are to hard for MVDP 😂😂 and the same for the chrono, not to Van Aert
Sarah Gigante or Neve Bradbury will win a Grand tour
You spelled GCN curse wrong in the title ;)
More GCN training pls...
Uno X Wins multiple(!) Tour stages
How many years do you think Tadej needs to break Mark's TdF stage wins? Tadej is 26 and has 18 stages more to win to equal Mark's record. I think by the time Tadej is 31 he could have a new stage wins record.
Wout deserves to win a monument again and if not for bad karma he would have had few more wins already.
I wish Tadej wins Milan - San Remo only to see him gain few pounds and try winning Paris-Roubaix. He said that the only way he will race Paris Roubaix if he had won Milan San Remo. Maybe a Milan-San Remo win from Tadej would save Mark's stage record.
Pogacar will win Tour and get 2nd in Vuelta win Milano San Remo and I’ll lombarda and strade Biachinic
Tom precook will win Tour de France or the giro is he competes. MVDP will win the uci mountain biking and pogi will dominate all of the cobbled classics etc.
TdF isn't on Max though :(
Congratulations on your pronunciation of Kasia Niewiadoma's name! Thank you for taking the time to improve it. I appreciate it's not a priority for circa half of cycling Anglosphere but for those of us who die a little with every Pogakar, Rojelic and Kasya, it's a welcome relief.
There is a happy middle to be found between "pronouncing every Dutch name with a brewing spit" snobbery and "English no can speak forrin" snobbery.
The latter usually cultivated by a made up notion of limited ability of "true Brits" to acquire fluency in foreign languages, which is more like self fulfilling prophecy than reality. You only need to hear Bradley Wiggins effortlessly switch between less than posh English accent and fluent French.
FDJ SUEZ clean sweep in WWT. SDW will be winless in one day races and GC for stage races
Doubt it...Kopecky is getting stronger in GC and the femme classics, and Anna van der Breggen is coming back to replace vollering. Early testing shows van der Breggen has her old form back. SDW will still be winning, bank on that.
@ No Reusser. No Vollering. AvdB is past her prime and will probably be put out to pasture after one season. So I doubt SDW will be able to compete as it has.
Are we going to see GMBN do similar for MTB racing, or have they given that up?
This one is scorchingly hot but here goes:
Primoz Roglic will win the tour de france
no
2025 TdF is climbing madness...
Hot take - Pod wins La Vuelta
Is it ever possible to win all 3 tours?
Yes. If you dope. Probably requires expert ‘advice’
They have been won continuously before but never in a single year (it was across two calendar years).
@@DunDun-e43 Pog will do it in 2 years time at the peak of his physical abilities. Mark my words.
lipowitz win two gt stages
Kasia will win the tour de france femmes avec zwift again! Heard it here first.
Olympic RR in 2025? what am I missing here!???
My hot takes for 2025? Not everyone manages to keep the rubber side down 😢
Hot take: UAE won't win any of the grand tours in 2025. It is not a hope, just a prediction
Roglic wins the TDF
Pogacar will win at least 3 monuments but no GT!
Prediction: I will not win anything in 2025 but I will substantially improve my FTP. 🤣
Where is MVDP, is he not riding in 2025
Mads Pedersen will win Paris Robaix 🚴🏼♂️💨💨
1. Derek Gee will podium at the Giro.
2. Vingegaard will defeat Pogačar at the Tour, the way he did in 2023.
3. Van Aert will win Flanders and Paris-Roubaix
4. MVDP will have a tough season
nothing will be done about rider safety. ( more could be done about road furniture and too many cars and motos)Also really stupid sprint finish layouts)