It's the 79th Tour de Romandie, the historically French-speaking region of Switzerland.

Traditionally, this race starts with a short prologue followed by a series of hilly and mountainous stages in the Jura mountains and the Alps before ending with an ITT somewhere close to Lausanne. This year, though, the final ITT has been replaced with a mountain top finish, apparently in an effort to remove all doubt about who will win.

Who will win? Well, Pogacar, of course. Here are the main competitors:

• POGAČAR Tadej
• SCHMID Mauro
• LIPOWITZ Florian
• ONLEY Oscar
• MARTINEZ Lenny
• GODON Dorian
• TIBERI Antonio
• ROGLIČ Primož
• FORTUNATO Lorenzo
• PLAPP Luke

You can see more details about each state on the PCS page for the race.

It's the Arrow in Brabant - the link between the cobbled classic and the Ardennes, and a damn good race.

It might even be enjoyable, given the absence of the big 4 or 5 or however many we're counting on to attack with 80 km to go in this terrain.

The route, usually, is on narrow hilly roads through the landscape in Wallonie, from Beersel to Overijse. Along the way, the riders will pass a number of sharp short climbs - the bergs and straats - until they reach Overijse and ride three laps and a winner is declared.

It is an open field, this year, with no clear favourite - but according to PCS we should look out for:

• Gregoire
• Schmid
• Del Grosso
• Vermeersch
• Venturini
• Wellens
• Zambanini
• Menten
• Leknessund
• Baudin

It's time for the 105th edition of the Volta Ciclista a Catalunya - a hilly and mountainous week-long WT race which has in the past been won by some true legends - Roglic, Pogacar, Higuita, Yates, Lopez, ValVerde, Quintana, Porte, Rodriguez, and so on and so forth.

This year the race has the following profiles in the peloton according to PCS:

• VINGEGAARD Jonas
• EVENEPOEL Remco
• ALMEIDA João
• PIDCOCK Thomas
• VINE Jay
• ONLEY Oscar
• MCNULTY Brandon
• CICCONE Giulio
• MARTINEZ Lenny
• GALL Felix

Which is... a weird sort of list, since it ignores Lipowitz, Skjelmose, Riccitello, Mas, Gaudu, and countless other strong riders.

The big question will of course be - will Vingegaard crush Evenepoel, Pidcock, and Almeida like he did to the competition in Paris-Nice? Surely this field is stronger?

All of that will be answered in the coming days!

• 23/03: Stage 1 — Sant Feliu de Guíxols to Sant Feliu de Guíxols
• 24/03: Stage 2 — Figueres to Banyoles
• 25/03: Stage 3 — Mont-roig del Camp to Vila-seca
• 26/03: Stage 4 — Mataró to Vallter
• 27/03: Stage 5 — La Seu d'Urgell to La Molina/Coll de Pal
• 28/03: Stage 6 — Berga to Queralt
• 29/03: Stage 7 — Barcelona to Barcelona

Bit late, but this week is also the week of Tirreno-Adriatico.

PCS Overview

It seems to be a pretty light edition - which makes it more interesting, I think.

PCS info page

Top competitors according to PCS:

• DEL TORO Isaac
• EVENEPOEL Remco
• MILAN Jonathan
• STORER Michael
• GALL Felix
• YATES Adam
• TIBERI Antonio
• JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland
• GEE-WEST Derek
• LÓPEZ Harold Martín

This year without Pogacar - so we'll hopefully get a good duel between Evenepoel & Del Toro. For the sprints it's hard to look past Milan.

Two lovely races this week:

• Volta Comunitat Valenciana
• Etoile de Bességes

This week we see the first races of some of the major players in the spring campaigns and the season overall.

Mads Pedersen, Joao Almeida, Biniam Girmay, and Giulio Pellizari will ride their first race against Evenepoel and the cat-killer Tiberi in and around Valencia.

And in the Bességes we will see French star Paul Lapeira battle it out with an assortment of other strong-but-not-quite-star rider such as Kubiš, Delettre, Costiou, Teuns and an apparently reanimated Groenewegen.

Enjoy!

Ok, so we're not going to create a race thread for ALL races this year, especially since we're only about 10 people reading here :)

This thread is available for you to write about all the races which don't have a race thread.

It's the 2026 Santos Tour Down Under kicking of the WT-season :)

Stages

• 20/01 Tuesday Prologue | Adelaide - Adelaide 3.6
• 21/01 Wednesday Stage 1 | Tanunda - Tanunda 120.6
• 22/01 Thursday Stage 2 | Norwood - Uraidla 148.1
• 23/01 Friday Stage 3 | Henley Beach - Nairne 140.8
• 24/01 Saturday Stage 4 | Brighton - Willunga Hill 176
• 25/01 Sunday Stage 5 | Stirling - Stirling 169.8

Top Competitors according to PCS

• VINE Jay
• BRENNAN Matthew
• NARVÁEZ Jhonatan
• STRONG Corbin
• ANDRESEN Tobias Lund
• YATES Adam
• PRODHOMME Nicolas
• VELASCO Simone
• BUITRAGO Santiago
• SCHMID Mauro

Enjoy!

It's 2026 and the pro cycling calendar is right around the corner!

Here are all the World Tour and ProSeries races for the year :)

If you're into smaller races - and who isn't? - here are all the 1.1 and 2.1 races you can look forward to this year:

Ok, so that's a wrap on the 2025 season! Thank you to everyone who participated, in a community of this size every comment matters :)

WT Races 2025

ProSeries races 2025

Tour du Limousin-Périgord - Nouvelle Aquitaine

The Tour du Limousin-Périgord – Nouvelle-Aquitaine is a professional four-day stage cycling race held every August in western France. Founded in 1968 and part of the UCI Europe Tour (2.1), it winds through the hilly landscapes of Limousin, Périgord, and Nouvelle-Aquitaine, covering departments like Haute-Vienne, Creuse, Corrèze, and Dordogne. Known for its rolling terrain with frequent climbs, the race showcases both rising talents and seasoned riders, while also promoting the scenic and cultural heritage of the region.

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Renewi Tour

The 2025 Renewi Tour, held from 20 to 24 August, is a five‑day WorldTour stage race in the Benelux region spanning 911 km. It kicks off with a flat opener from Terneuzen to Breskens, before two more stages through Belgium—Blankenberge to Ardooie and a decisive Aalter to Geraardsbergen stage featuring Flemish Ardennes climbs like the Taaienberg, Bosberg and multiple ascents of the famous Muur van Geraardsbergen—both crucial for the general classification. The fourth stage runs from Riemst to Bilzen, offering rolling terrain that favors both sprinters and attackers, while the finale in Leuven incorporates the traditional Tour of Leuven circuit, blending short climbs with circuit racing to close out the week in style.

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Lidl Deutchland Tour

The 2025 Lidl Deutschland Tour takes place from 20–24 August over five days. It begins with a short, explosive 3.1 km prologue in Essen through the UNESCO-listed Zeche Zollverein, followed by a 202.6 km hilly stage to Herford that winds through the Teutoburg Forest. The race then tackles its 190.3 km queen stage from Herford to Arnsberg, packed with Sauerland climbs like the Gauseköte and Seufzertal. On the fourth day, riders face a 175.7 km mountain-like stage to Kassel, with around 1,000 m of elevation and likely decisive attacks. The tour concludes with a 163.7 km flatter stage from Halle (Saale) to Magdeburg, opening with a punchy climb but expected to end in a fast sprint.

My other user - @[email protected] - is the only mod of the community [email protected].

I've tried to appoint other moderators and sticky threads, and it works on my local instance but doesn't show up when I log into lemmy.world using this account.

And then after something like 12 hours the appointment is reversed on the external instance as well, so the feddit.dk account is yet again the only mod.

1. This seems like a bug with federation
2. Would it be possible for you to add this account as a mod, so I can use that instead of the external account?

I would do this myseld, but, well, it doesn't work.

318-324 AD

DN VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, helmeted and cuirassed bust left holding spear and shield

IOVI CONSERVATORI, Jupiter standing left holding Victory on globe and eagle-tipped scepter, another eagle at feet to left, captive seated on ground to right, XIII in right field

Sear 15409

Mesembria, originally a Thracian settlement known as Menebria, became a Greek colony when settled by Dorians from Megara at the beginning of the 6th century BC, and was an important trading centre from then on and a rival of Apollonia (Sozopol).

Remains from the Hellenistic period include the acropolis, a temple of Apollo, and an agora. A wall which formed part of the fortifications can still be seen on the north side of the peninsula.

Bronze and silver coins were minted in the city from the 5th century BC and gold coins from the 3rd century BC. The town fell under Roman rule in 71 BC, yet continued to enjoy privileges such as the right to mint its own coinage.

It is now the city of Nesebar in Bulgaria. If you're European you might know it better as the city just south of Sunny Beach.

I don't actually remember when I bought this coins, but I've always really liked the design. The Crested Helmet is, of course, one of the most recognizable ancient Greek symbols, and I also like the symmetrical and aesthetically pleasing reverse with MEΣΑ inside the spokes of a wheel.

Bios:Megafauna starts where the predecessor game Bios:Genesis left off, with the invasion of the land on the daybreak of the Phanerozoic eon. Starting as either a plant, mollusk, insect, or vertebral skeletal type, your flapping, paddling, and squawking carnivores and herbivores make a beachhead on one of the drifting continental plates in the Cambrian, Their struggle for terrestrial dominance may eventually include language-based consciousness. Although this achievement elevated a certain mammal species to notoriety, in your game things may occur differently.

This second edition of Bios:Megafauna is an evolutionary descendant of American Megafauna but as a part of the Bios series of games it is linked to the game Bios:Genesis. It plays well independently but if you have both games you can let the end state of a game of Bios:Genesis affect the starting state of a game of Bios:Megafauna. A successor game, called Bios:Origins (which would be a descendant of Origin), is planned to cover the events of the Quaternary period including the rise of ideas and technology.

This is a fine little bronze issue struck in Antioch in modern day Syria under Flavius Delmatius, a Caesar of the Roman Empire and member of the Constantinian dynasty.

Delmatius was the nephew of Constantine I. His father, also named Flavius Delmatius, was the half-brother of Constantine and served as censor. He was the brother of Hannibalianus.

On 18 September 335, Delmatius the younger was raised to the rank of Caesar, with the control of Thracia, Achaea and Macedonia. He died in late summer 337, killed by his own soldiers. It is possible that his death was related to the purge that hit the imperial family at the death of Constantine, and organized by Constantius II with the aim of removing any possible claimant to imperial power other than the sons of the late emperor.

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Obverse: FL DELMATIVS NOB C

Reverse: GLORIA EXCERCITVS, two soldiers standing facing each other, each resting on spear and shield, a standard between them

15mm and 1.35g

Obverse: IMP CM Q TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG, cuirassed bust with radiate head right

Reverse: DACIA , Dacia standing left, holding draco standart

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I have a couple of these silver coins celebrating the (re)conquest of Dacia, modern day Romania, under Trajan Decius.

Dacia had been invaded by the Carpi from the 230s and forward, until the Philip I sent Decius to deal with them around 245 AD. He finally stabilized the area around 248 AD, and his troops then acclaimed him emperor.

A short civil war ensued, Philip was killed near Verona in AD 249, and Decius was recognized by the Senate. He would rule for only a couple of years as he and his son were killed by Goths at the Battle of Abritus in 251 AD.

Dacia is holding a so-called Draco-standart, which was apparently a dragon-like battle-standard used by the Dacians. When they attacked on horseback, the flow of air would create a sort of frightening howl. Dacian horsemen were also used in the legions, and famously a company of Dacian horsemen with a Draco-standard were stationed in the UK close to Wales.

Some people believe that the legend of King Arthur the Dragon grew from these Dacian knights being the only law and order around after the Romans left. Who knows, maybe they inspired the Welsh dragon too.

... to post race threads & result threads for at least all WT-races. Does anyone have the skills to run a bot like this?

I often want to throw a quick comment as a race is going on, but creating a race thread or a result thread is a LOT of work and it keeps me from engaging.

I think this is what we need to make this community grow.

This is a follis - at this point in time a small bronze coin with thin silvering - stuck in Thessalonica in Greece in AD 324. 18mm and 3.3g.

Obverse: CONSTANTINVS IVN NOB C, Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left

Reverse: VOT/·/X in three lines within wreath, TSBVI

I have it noted down as RIC VII 128 - which I suppose is true enough, but RIC (Roman Imperial Coinage) is a reference which few people have actual access to, so many dealers and collectors just accept whichever number is noted down at face value and don't double check :)

VOT X on the reverse refers to a vow to rule for 10 years. In reality, Constantine II was only ruler for 3 years - 337 to 340. This coin was struck when he was 8 years old.