UCI Kigali 2025
ucikigali2025.rw

Calendar:

It starts with Time Trials:

  • Sunday 21, morning: Elite Women (31 km)
  • Sunday 21, afternoon: Elite Men (41 km)
  • Monday 22, morning: U23 Women
  • Monday 22, afternoon: U23 Men
  • Tuesday 23, morning: Junior Women
  • Tuesday 23, afternoon: Junior Men
  • Wednesday 24 : mixed relays (2×21km)

Then come the mass start races:

  • Thursday 25, afternoon: U23 Women
  • Friday 26, morning: Junior Men
  • Friday 26, afternoon: U23 Men
  • Saturday 27, morning: Junior Women
  • Saturday 27, afternoon: Elite Women
  • Sunday 28: Elite Men

NB: Women Elite ride the same distance as U23 Men; U23 Women ride the same distance as Junior Men.

Here is the map of the circuit that all mass start races will use:

and an example of repeated profile:

In addition of this circuit, the Elite Men will also ride once a longer circuit:

which will result in this complete profile:

  • Deschanel2017OPMEnglish
    2·
    20 days ago

    Selection for France 🇫🇷

    Men

    B. Armirail and P. Seixas (both Décathlon) for the ITT.

    The same + P. Sivakov (UAE) for the mixed relay.

    For the mass start race:

    • J. Alaphilippe (Tudor)
    • L. Barré (Intermarché)
    • J. Bernard (Lidl-trek)
    • J. Jegat (Total)
    • V. Madouas (FDJ)
    • V. Paret-Peintre (Soudal-QS)
    • P. Seixas (Décathlon)
    • P. Sivakov (UAE)

    remarks:

    • Sivakov being selected again is a pure shame (this piece of $%@# rode for Pogatchar last year…)
    • Seixas, 19 years old, is the only rider who is supposed to ride the 3 races, WTF?

    Women

    C. Kerbaol (EF) and J. Labous (FDJ) for the ITT.

    The same + M. Squiban (UAE) for the mixed relay.

    For the mass start race:

    • L. Curinier (FDJ)
    • P. Ferrand-Prévot (Visma)
    • C. Kerbaol (FDJ)
    • M. Le Net (FDJ)
    • E. Muzic (FDJ)
    • M. Squiban (UAE)

    remarks:

    • I thought Muzic had been disappointing this year? Overall it looks like being in FDJ is a favourable point in order to be selected.
      • Deschanel2017OPM
        1·
        9 days ago

        Sorry for replying now, after the race; I haven’t connected in a few days.

        I don’t know what ‘stacked’ means in this context, I don’t suppose it means that they have big boobies, so I will assume in the following that it means ‘strong’ or ‘dense’. 😀

        As far as other teams are concerned, I don’t know them well, but Netherlands is always a favourite.

        Concerning France, Kerbaol has shown in the previous races that she wasn’t in shape; Muzic hasn’t been good this year; Le Net can’t take so much elevation; Curinier is about the same; and Squiban really didn’t dig the cobblestone climb during the mixed-relay TT where Labous had to wait for her. That leaves, as real chances, Labous and a Ferrand-Prévot who has only race 1 day in 2 months.

        So while that team may show a relatively good level of domestiques (especially once Kerbaol could be demoted to domestique), those were neither capable of winning, nor truly capable of keeping / catching up with other teams’ leaders’ attacks if it was needed.

        Once the race was on, then finished… Well, the strategy and the tactics of the French team were an unmitigated disaster (they were not the single team in this case, though).

        • Putting all their money on Ferrand-Prévot instead of balancing / switching to Labous;
        • Putting the wrong rider (Muzic) ahead: a great classic in this kind of races; worsened here by the fact that it was her who created the situation by herself;
        • Not pulling the peloton when you still have 3 domestiques, giving free minutes to the gals ahead; consequence: later, you have to pull harder than you’d have needed, your domestiques drop and you have to sacrifice leaders instead;
        • Attacking instead of pulling;
        • Pulling too hard in the slopes, instead of pulling more slowly in the slopes to save the peloton strength for the section where a peloton goes faster (when it is not cooked after your pacing in the climb);
        • Staying on the wrong leader, wasting the other one.

        France, Netherlands, Italy looked like they had 3 neurons for the whole team. Female races sometimes exhibit weird/crappy tactical sense; male races without earpieces sometimes exhibit weird/crappy tactical sense; when you sum both, you get female races without earpieces which are often outlandish…

          • Deschanel2017OPM
            1·
            9 days ago

            Hindsight is cheating.

            I cannot travel back in time 😀

            I did get it very wrong though!

            Well, no, I mean, like 2 turns (or 3?) from the finish, they still had the situation in hands, they still had personnel which could still be used, they still had their two leaders: so, there had been no misfortune, and the level displayed was OK. It still looked like a strong team, in a good position to control and later send its leaders for the final attack(s).

            And then they made all sorts of assessments and choices wrong.