Talossan Cycling Association Tour Season 4 Leg 3: Torino -> Madrid

[Glüc]

Talossan Cycling Association Tour
2025
Third Leg
Torino -> Madrid


_{(Logo created by Sir Lüc)}

We're getting closer to the end of the season as we start the final leg of TCAT 2025. Eleven teams from 6 different provinces will do another 3100 kilometers of cycling in the coming three weeks while the team captains sit at home and enjoy the show. The goal is to score the most points by winning stages and doing well in three classifications: the King of the Mountains classification (polkadot jersey), the points classification (green jersey) and the general classification (the famous yellow jersey) which determines which individual rider wins this leg of TCAT. Esqipă Velocostă has managed to win the first two legs of the season. Can they be beaten?

Let's have a look at the teams:

- Esqipă Velocostă - (EVC, Belacostă) Season score: 18064 Vingegaard Tiberi Gall Landa Biermans Pidcock Bagioli Bjerg Jorgenson -----------------------------------------------------	- Port Maxhestic AC - (PTM, Maritiimi-Maxhestic) Season score: 16427 Vingegaard Ayuso Fortunato Chaves Pedersen Bisiaux Armirail Küng Frigo -----------------------------------------------------	- Gordon Hiatus Support Team - (GHS, Belacostă) Season score: 16369 Vingegaard Jorgenson Bernal Ciccone Philipsen Silva Campenaerts Azparren Vine -----------------------------------------------------
- Velociposse Florencia - (VFL, Florencia) Season score: 16051 Ayuso Tiberi Buitrago Hindley Philipsen Pidcock Bouwman Ganna O'Connor -----------------------------------------------------	- Cyclohexane - (CHX, Belacostă) Season score: 15749 Vingegaard Tiberi Ciccone Pellizzari Viviani Armirail Campenaerts Bagioli O'Connor -----------------------------------------------------	- Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs - (BDC, Cézembre) Season score: 15220 Vingegaard Soler Pellizzari Fortunato Philipsen Ganna Pidcock Bisiaux Buitrago -----------------------------------------------------
- Cézembre Fieschā - (CFA, Cézembre) Season score: 14577 Vingegaard Almeida Hindley Kuss Coquard Jungels Küng Rickaert O'Connor -----------------------------------------------------	- Els Talossaes Rexhitais - (REX, Maricopa) Season score: 14092 Almeida Tiberi Buitrago Hindley Zingle Pidcock Aleotti Ganna Philipsen -----------------------------------------------------	- Naziun Cjovani - (CJO, Belacostă) Season score: 13390 Vingegaard Ayuso Ciccone Bernal Aular Balderstone Arcas Gamper Sheffield -----------------------------------------------------
- Dirnalaiset Mortescu - (DED, Vuode) Season score: 12798 Almeida Vine Buitrago Fortunato Philipsen Pidcock Ganna Aleotti Pedersen	- Maricopa Cabana Boys - (MCB, Maricopa) Season score: 7425* Vingegaard Jorgenson Ciccone Buitrago Pedersen Armirail Barceló Bagioli Gamper

Links:
Registration thread
Information about the route and riders

[Glüc]

No fewer than 8 out of 11 teams picked Vingegaard. It's clear that people are expecting him to do well.

Also interesting that the season top 3 all went for three all rounders, the mid table teams all went for 3 climbers and the rest went for 4 unclassed/2 sprinters.

[Glüc]

Limited time to write update unfortunately. Philipsen (GHS/VFL/BDC/REX/DED) won the first stage in a bunch sprint, taking the maillot rojo, after winning the first stage of the tour de france as well. Unsurprisingly the five teams who picked him take an early lead in TCAT.

Standings after stage 1:

Pos	±		Team	Pts Ove	Pts Today
1st	(=)		Velociposse Florencia (VFL)	400	+400
2nd	(=)		Dirnalaiset Mortescu (DED)	387	+387
3rd	(=)		Gordon Hiatus Support Team (GHS)	364	+364
4th	(=)		Els Talossaes Rexhitais (REX)	353	+353
5th	(=)		Cézembre Caçeirs dals Mailintzarăs (BDC)	353	+353
6th	(=)		Naziun Cjovani (CJO)	188	+188
7th	(=)		Cyclohexane (CHX)	156	+156
8th	(=)		Cézembre Fieschā (CFA)	126	+126
9th	(=)		Esqipă Velocostă (EVC)	89	+89
10th	(=)		Port Maxhestic AC (PTM)	42	+42
11th	(=)		Maricopa Cabana Boys (MCB)	34	+34

[Breneir Tzaracomprada]

This may be the only time the Posse graces first place so we are enjoying it.