Hottest Takes In Cycling 2025! | GCN Racing News Show

On this week’s GCN Racing News Show, Dan runs through his HOT takes in cycling for 2025. 🌶️
After last year's success rate of… 1 out of 8, he’s feeling confident with 7 bold new predictions.
Will Juan Ayuso conquer the Giro? Can Wout van Aert claim a cobbled monument? And will Tadej Pogacar somehow get even better? Tune in to find out!

00:00 Welcome to the GCN Racing News Show!
00:17 This year in the world of racing
01:26 Juan Ayuso will win the Giro
02:18 Lotte Kopecky will win the Tour de France Femmes
02:56 Wout van Aert will win a cobbled monument.
03:53 Tadej Pogacar will be even BETTER in 2025
04:40 Anna van der Breggen WON’T win La Fleche Wallonne
05:25 Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe will win a cobbled classic
06:19 Jonathan Milan wins the Tour de France Green jersey
07:23 Best comments from last year
08:52 Happy and healthy 2025!

🚴 Missed last year’s hot takes? Watch them here 👉 2024 Hottest Takes

Which prediction do you think is most likely to come true? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

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Which prediction do you think is most likely to come true? Let us know in the comments below! 👇

[TLam]

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.

[tonyg]

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

[the_mystery_ray]

Thibau Nys will win an Ardenne classic

[clarencecorbeil]

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!

[marcr]

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

[georgehugh]

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.

[sltgaming]

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.

[Russettapple]

I'm amazed Tom Pidcock didn't even get a mention - Oh ye of little faith - he's going to smash it this year, which races I have no idea but you'll regret the no mention.

[shahrynnedmunds]

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.

[carsoncikovic]

Pidcock will have his best season yet not sure what races but he’s going to crush it

[Chiller]

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.

[cameronread]

Emil Herzog and Johannes Staune-Mittet will make noise next season, hopefully a win

[peterarmstrong]

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….🤞

[danhutjens]

At 3:23 Dan says MVDP has won 7 monuments. Isn’t it actually 6? San Remo, Flanders x3, Roubaix x2.

[cb]

Thanks Dan and crew for another great year of stuff ! Be well, eh ? Happy New Year, bit shit over here .

[monsiogabar]

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!

[chrisjenkins]

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!

[connorparadis]

Demi Vollering wins the TdFFAZ by at least 2 minutes.

[arcticchrisx]

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.