1) What team will have the most stage wins? UAE
2) What rider will be part of the first breakaway of the Tour? (simply a breakaway attempt will not count, must be ‘long’ enough) Tronchon
3) What rider will lead the U25 classification during the first rest day? Evenepoel
4) What team will win the team’s classification? UAE
5) Will a goat, cow, dog or other animal disrupt a stage this year, (almost) causing a crash? Yes
6) What rider will win back-to-back stages? (Write no rider or sth if you think it won’t happen) No rider
7) How many stages will be won by a French rider? Three
8) Will the final Tour podium (Top 3 overall) include a rider who has never before podiumed at a Grand Tour? Yes or no. No
9) Will there be a stage where the peloton finishes more than 12 minutes and 35 seconds behind the breakaway winner? Yes or no. No
10) What team will not win any stage? Picnic PostNL
11) Will somebody younger than 23 (max. 22 y/o and 364d) win a stage? Yes
12) Will somebody older than 34 (including 34) win a stage? Yes
13) Will both Van Aert and van der Poel win a stage? No
14) What will be the nationality of the rider winning stage 10 on the French national holiday? French
15) How many riders will wear the yellow jersey for the first time in their career during this Tour? One
S2: Pogacar, Jorgenson, van der Poel, T Halland Johannessen, Vauquelin, Van Aert, Skjelmose, Vingegaard, Gregoire, Onley
Edited by ember on 06-07-2025 11:10
Thank you all for joining! 15 participants this time, so that's 1,5x the counting for me (and excel, mostly). One thing is for sure, just like in the Giro, we start the Tour with a 100% correct winner prediction rate! Everybody picked Philipsen, and apart from me and knockout, everybody picked nr. 2 Girmay as well. Both of them good for six points.
First two positions were still rather predictable, but because of the echelons the rest of the top-10 wasn't. Five people were able to predict number 3 Waerenskjold, giving them sixteen points each. Four others predicted Penhoet correctly as well, giving 10 points per person. New member Dane Bramage comes in with a bang, having all four of those riders in his top-10, and immediately wins the first stage this way. Because obviously there wasn't anything else before this, he's also the first maillot jaune, congratulations!
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Philipsen
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Nemolito
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seancoll
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ember
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jaxika
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sammyt93
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alexkr00
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kb26
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knockout
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Fun fact: seancoll and I predicted a breakaway rider correctly, scoring 25 points at the end of the Tour. I had Le Berre, Sean had Vercher. Nice work from Sean, as he was also the only one predicting a breakaway rider correctly at the giro!
