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Enric Mass has pulled off a win that was unthinkable just one month ago.

I'll be looking back at a final week of La Vuelta

that was full of incredible performances

and looking at what we learned about the upcoming UCI World Championships through the Grand Prix of Quebec and Montreal.

There, Remco Eamonholt and Isaac Del Toro looked in tremendous form.

This week in the world of racing,

we learned that the final stages of Grand Tours are not to be raced, at least not to the finish for GC times.

After much last-minute discussion, the race organizers bowed to the want of the rides

and took the GC times with one lap to go on yesterday's final stage of La Vuelta in Granada.

The whole thing was a bit embarrassing for the sport, if I'm honest.

More on that later on.

We also learned that Remco Evenenpol and Isak Del Toro have cemented their status as favorites to win this year's world championships.

They won the Grand Prix of Quebec and Montreal respectively on Friday and yesterday, races which I shall delve deeper into very shortly.

And finally this week, we learned that Enric Mass is a Grand Tour winner.

And I feel I should repeat that.

Enric Mass is a Grand Tour winner, not something that I or most of you would have thought possible four weeks ago.

But then that's where the world of sport can throw out some big surprises, especially when someone named Tadej Pogacar is not around and racing.

When Pogacar crashed out of the race at the end of the first week, Mas inherited the leader's red jersey by default.

He refused to wear it on the podium that day, out of respect, but he came out one day later and won the stage,

only his second ever stage win at La Vuelta and his first in eight years.

From that moment on, he and his team Movistar barely put a foot wrong.

In fact, the only road stage on

which he lost any time on his GC rivals was the very final mountain of the race, where he conceded just 17 seconds to Felix Gall.

Yes, he lost time to Roglic in the individual time trial, but perhaps not as much as many expected, just 33 seconds.

I mean, maybe the race motorbikes did help him a bit that day, but it was still a solid performance and one which all but put the race to bed.

It's quite understandable to see the emotion pour out of Enric Mas as he crossed the finish line of

that final mountain stage on Saturday.

Mas has been the nearly man of cycling, particularly La Vuelta, for many, many years.

This edition was his 16th Grand Tour start and he'd already amassed eight top six GC results, including four podium finishes.

It wasn't just Pogaccia being on the start line in Monaco, which meant that Mass wasn't seen by many as having a chance of overall victory.

This last year and a half or so has been tough for the Spaniards with injuries and bad luck.

So he went into the race without a win to his name in almost four years, but he's come out of it with the biggest win he could ever have dreamed of.

And I'd say it's hard to not feel happy for him, isn't it?

Even if he was supporting one of the other GC favourites.

I mean, he's been heavily criticised over the years, especially in his home country of Spain, over the course of his career,

so this win must feel both euphoric and vindicating, I would imagine.

So huge congratulations to Enric Mas and the whole of Team Movistar.

The final GC looked like this with one lap in Granada to go.

Mas beating Roglic by 2 minutes 15 seconds with Felix Gau a further 29 seconds back in third.

Richard Carapaz, despite all his attacking and swashbuckling, had to settle for fourth over four minutes behind Gau.

The biggest mover over the last few days of the race was Sepp Kuss.

A long-range move on stage 20 saw him vault up six places on GC to fifth,

whilst Onely, Onzeor, Bertet and Rodriguez all fell down one place.

Harold Tahada rounded out the top 10, giving XTS Astana two riders in that top 10.

For Onely, it was a bit of a roller coaster race, just like the rest of his season really, but given everything he's been through this year on his bike,

I think he'll be content with sixth overall and the best young rider.

Probably the biggest loser over that final week was Lidl Trek's Matthias Schellmose, who fell outside the top 10 on that penultimate day.

Long hard season clearly started to show for him

and he's actually now pulled out of the Danish team for the World Championships in Canada.

Back to the podium riders though, and what a performance by Primoz Roglic.

You'll all know this, but I'll remind you anyway.

He lost around 10 days of training just before La Vuelta after a nasty training crash.

I was in the balance actually as to whether he'd even make it to the start line in Monaco.

To battle to second place is like a win in itself.

In fact, I believe that's how he described it himself in his interviews yesterday.

Now at 36 years of age, he continues to prove his class.

That was his ninth podium finish at a Grand Tour despite coming to the sport quite late

and no current riders can match that.

The last rider to achieve the same was Alejandro Valverde

when he finished second to Roglic in 2019

and only eight riders in the history of our sport had more Grand Tour podiums to their name.

We still don't know where Roglic is going to be riding next year but that won't have done his value any harm.

Nor will it have harmed Felix Gau.

I think Lille Tret will be pleased to see how he performed ahead of a rumoured move to that team next year.

Second at the Giro, third at La Vuelta, so he's the only male rider who's still on the podium of two Grand Tours this year.

If he can make another leap forward next season on the climbs and Lidl Trek can improve his time trialling, he'll have a decent chance at winning a Grand Tour.

Now there are some other very notable performances over the last week of La Vuelta and even in the last two days,

but I've got to start with Mikel Landa, the enigma himself.

Like others that I've already mentioned today, he's had a horrific couple of years with some nasty crashes and long rehabilitation afterwards.

It's fair to say he came to the La Vuelta a bit undercooked

and we didn't really see much of him for three weeks until Saturday, the queen stage of this year's race.

There he managed to get into the day's winning breakaway and then on the brutally steep slopes to the finish line, he dropped his remaining two companions to go onto one of the most popular wins

that I can remember in a long time in our sport.

No wonder he was emotional after the stage.

This is what he had to say.

I feel very happy.

Something that I've been looking for.

Long time and finally, I win again.

A very emotional victory for you today, no?

Yes, really emotional.

It's been really hard season, really hard vuelta for me.

And today, yeah, it was the last chance.

Nice, touch.

Thank you, congratulations.

Wow, what a message that will be to his kids later in their lives.

Now, the person he beat that day was Tobias Hannanjohannsen.

You know ex-riders had some really solid results over the last couple of years in particular, but it had been around three years since he'd won a race, and he was getting a little bit sick of coming second.

Understandably, really.

I thought it out that he's had 12 second places since his last victory.

And so it was incredible to watch him convert all those second places into a win at the very last opportunity.

So on the final stage around Granada yesterday, he attacked, got away with Ramele, and then just about out sprinted him to the finish line.

And what a race it was in general for Uno X.

Two stage wins and some seriously impressive team performances throughout.

I mean, I'm not supposed to have favourite teams as a cycling commentator, but sod it.

I think Uno X are my favourite team.

Just love the way they race.

Now, going back to roller coasters, what about Eddie Dunbar?

On Friday he broke the heart of Santiago Butrago by catching

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and dropping him almost inside the line on the mountain top finish.

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It was a brilliant win though, and the first at a grand tour for his Team Pinarello Q36.5.

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However, less than 24 hours later, he was out of the race, crashing on stage 20 and breaking his collarbone.

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So get well soon, Eddie, but also congratulations.

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Another rider who won a stage and then abandoned immediately afterwards was Stefan Kuhn.

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The Swiss rider lived up to his billing as one of the favourites for the time trial on Thursday, narrowly beating Callum Thornley of Red Bull Bora Hansgrohe.

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Kuhn then withdrew from the race ahead of stage 19, presumably with an eye on the World Time Trial Championships, which are around 10 days from now.

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The first two stages last week were both won by the same man, Matthew Brennan.

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It was already clear to see for everybody before La Buelta that he's an exceptional talent on the bike, but my word did he underline that fact over the last three weeks.

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He became the youngest rider ever to win five stages of their debut Grand Tour, and the first since Fons de Wolff in the late 70s.

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Now some people may say the sprinting field wasn't that strong this year, but you can only beat the riders that were there, and I think above all it's his versatility which has been astounding.

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Plus Jordi Maes is no slouch when it comes to sprinting.

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Brennan is the real deal, and Wisma have a big decision on their hands as to whether

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or not they take him to the Tour de France next year.

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Normally of course they design their team entirely around the GC and Jonas Wiener Goor, but maybe that will change in 2027.

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Sticking with Wisma, man of the match, man of the three weeks for many people, was of course Wout van Aert.

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It wasn't just the wins or the way that he rode almost every single day, it was the fact

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that it was redemption for the time he crashed out of the race two years ago with a serious knee injury.

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That year he'd been flying and was in the green jersey, This year, he was also flying and took the green jersey all the way to the finish.

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And I don't think anybody was disappointed to see him back at his best in this race.

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And there's a great chance that he could get even better this season for him at the World Championships in Canada.

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He will need to, of course, recover from what was a big three weeks of effort.

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But with the form he's on, that should not be a problem.

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Now the only jersey winner I haven't properly mentioned yet is Bahrain's Santiago Butrago.

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The Colombian was distraught at losing stage 19 to Dunbar.

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He'd been so close on previous occasions as well, with a second and a third and other stages.

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However, he did take home the King of the Mountains prize

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and is the first Colombian to do so since Felix Cárdenas in 2004.

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Right, with that I'm going to go back to what I'm going to describe as the fiasco of the final stage.

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A final stage in which we'd all known the exact route for months and months.

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Then a couple of days before it, rumours started circulating that the Rhyers wanted the GC Times neutralised on the day, citing safety as their reasoning.

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They were okay with the stage winner declared, safe enough for the people who wanted to win the stage, they could feel their boots of course, but not safe enough for the general classification men.

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So after much to-ing and fro-ing with the race organisation, ASO eventually had to bounce to the wishes of the riders, not wanting the stage to be ruined through potential rider strikes.

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Now, a lot of the time when it comes to safety and things like the extreme weather protocol, I'm very much on the side of the riders.

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However, on this occasion, I think they were wrong and I think they made the sport look completely amateur.

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Maybe if it was raining, it could have been perceived to have been too risky, but in my mind no riskier than some of the other stages of the race that were race to the finish.

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Personally, I get the feeling that a few generations of riders, including mine, have gotten used to a processional final stage in Grand Tours.

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They want to sip on their champagne and enjoy the photographs and parade.

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They don't want to be in full concentration mode right through to the final moment.

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I mean, it would be kind of a shame to lose the race

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or your position in it due to a crash or some bad luck on the final day, but apart from it coming late on, surely that's not really any different to any other day, in my opinion at least.

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There are 21 stages in the Grand Tour, not 20.

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Now perhaps your view differs on this, or perhaps I haven't got all the facts and opinions properly.

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If I've missed anything or you disagree, you can let me know in the comments below.

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I'm always happy to be wrong if that's the case.

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Now just to finish La Vuelta on a more positive note, on the final day there was a lovely show of respect

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and admiration for the riders in the race who were retiring at the end of this Steven.

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Steven Kreuzweich, Peo Bilbao and Magnus Kort have been pro for a total of 45 years combined, all with their own brilliant performances over the years.

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The fact that all three were incredibly solid in riding through their final Grand Tour shows just how professional they all are.

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Congratulations to all of them.

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Moving on to the two one-day races in Canada now, which played an extra significant role this year given

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that the World Championship takes place in under two weeks' time on a very similar course in Montreal.

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I'll start with the Grand Prix Quebec though, because that came first on Friday.

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A cracking race it was, I've got to say.

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In fact, they both were.

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In Quebec, the early move was caught with around 57k to go, and it was there that the big favourites started making their own moves.

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Quite the move it was too.

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Seixas, Simmonds, Healy, Ayuso, Jorgensen and Pidcock.

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Remco Eveniford wasn't initially in that split, but bridged across soon after.

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Heading towards the final lap of the race, the Belgian then got away with Giulio Ciccone and Anton Czarmic.

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The Dame was unable to hold the wheel though as the

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Belgian launched a big acceleration on the Cote de la Montagne and so it came down to a sprint à deux.

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There, Avonapol opened up quite a long way from the line, given that it's an uphill drag, but Ciccone could not come past him.

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That ended a 14-year drought for Belgians at the race, their last winner being Philippe Gilbert in 2011.

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And for Avonapol, well the signs are ominous, aren't they, ahead of the World Championships.

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That said, he might not start as the bookmaker's outright favourite, given that he didn't have it all his own way yesterday in Montreal.

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As the winning move went there, he found himself a bit blocked in and then spent the rest of the race chasing.

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I've got to say it was still very impressive what he did there though, even if fifth place probably wasn't the result he was hoping or expecting.

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Anyway, the decisive move in that race yesterday came on the final ascent of the Code Chameleon Oud, where poor Sexass attacked from what was already a vastly reduced group of favourites,

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storming past Ben Healey, who'd been on a characteristic long-range attack.

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The only rider able to bridge the Frenchman was Isaac del Toro, and the two of them quickly built up a healthy and eventually unassailable lead over the rest.

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In the sprint, Sexas found himself on the front, but for a long time, sort of looked like he was doing the right thing, hugging the barrier on the left side of the road

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and constantly looking over his shoulder to check when del Toro was going to launch.

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Except when he did launch, Sexas didn't didn't seem to look to the side for an eternity.

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It was an incredibly slow reaction, to be honest.

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Now, I don't think he'd have beaten Del Toro anyway, but he certainly would have made it a lot, lot closer.

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I won't forget he's still a teenager, though.

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He'll learn very quickly, I'm sure.

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Anyway, a convincing win there for Del Toro becomes the first Mexican ever to win a World Tour level one-day race.

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That was his 13th win in a one-day professional race, in fact, and UAE have now won that particular race five years in a row.

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And they were absolutely dominant yesterday.

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At one point, they had three rides in a group of four off the front.

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Del Toro plus McNulty, who ended up in third, and Yates along with Seixas.

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Now, as I mentioned earlier, the Grand Prix Montreal was a dress rehearsal for the World Championship, which will use exactly the same circuit, albeit only doing 12 laps instead of 16.

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However, with an extra run-in of over 100 kilometers at the start, the world is going to be around 60km longer.

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So who's now the favorite for the World Championships?

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Well, according to the early odds, it's Remco Evenepoel.

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Second is Del Toro, then it's Sixass.

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Van der Poel is only four favorites, but not only six favorites with Pitcock sandwiched in the middle.

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Presumably, the bookmakers are looking at the sheer amounts of climbing involved, with over 3,800 meters.

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But as a comparison, the world to which Van der Poel won in Glasgow ago, had 3,600 meters of climbing.

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I guess the difference is that those climbs were significantly shorter, but he also came close to winning in Zurich one year later, and that one had almost 4,500 meters of climbing.

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Are he and Van Aert being underestimated by the bookmakers, or have they got it right?

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You can let me know in the comments below.

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Okay, on to some other races from last week now, and Uno X had more success down in Italy.

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The Trofeo Macciotti, Sicarius Lolland took his second pro victory.

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Both of them come in Italy, incidentally.

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The circuit around Pescara culminated in a reduced bunch sprint, which Lolland won ahead of Crescioli.

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The race was one of three one-day classics in Italy last week, actually.

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At the Giro della Toscana, Giulio Pellizzaro took the win.

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He was part of a 10-man group that got clear on the second ascent of the Montesera.

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He then attacked the group just inside the Flamme Rouge, or Fiamma Rossi, I guess, holding off Jordan Jaegard and Christian Scaroni.

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Yonez Aguirre is another rider who is in fantastic form, even though he is set to retire too at the end of the season.

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He won the 4-up sprint to the line at the Memorial Marco Pantani, head of Pellet Zari, whilst Benoit Cousnefrois took another win for UAE at the Coppa Sabatini.

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The uphill finish suited him perfectly and he held Clement Venturini of Unibet and Romain Gregoire to the line.

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La Charly Formier Femina, Lorena Vibes, powered to her 20th win of the season after her team SD work set her up perfectly in the finale.

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Meanwhile, UAE's Dominika Vlodicic spoiled the sprinters' fun at the women's cycling Grand Prix Région Stuttgart.

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She attacked with about a K to go and held on to the line.

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Second went Elisa Balsamo.

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At the Grand Prix de Formier, a late breakaway attempt was foiled by Jonas Abrahamsson and Lionel Tamino.

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They were caught inside the final three Ks and a big crash disrupted the peloton with about 400 metres to go.

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Arvid De Kline and Tudor Pro cycling navigated through it all to take his second career victory at the race

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and his first win since last year's Tour de Langkawi.

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And just finally, FDJ's Juliette Berte took overall honours at the Fon Tour Femme, taking two stage wins, a second and a seventh across the four days.

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And believe it or not, outside of the French Nationals, they were her first wins in over four years.

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That team also won the final stage with a rider who'd never won a pro race previously, so congratulations to Lauren Dixon.

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22-year-old Solène Muller had herself taken her maiden pro victory on stage one.

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Right, I'll move on to the latest transfer confirmations now.

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Lotto and Tomasche have lost yet another rider in the last week, this time in the form of Georg Zimmermann.

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He's off to Lidl Trek, but once again, just like last week, Lotto have also made a new signing announcement, Frenchman Clément Von Turini from Unibet Rose Rockets.

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Spanish rider Christian Rodriguez, who just finished ninth overall at the Vuelta, is heading to Bahrain-Victorias from Exeges Astana.

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22-year-old Artem Schmidt will leave net company Ineos after just two years, so the US time Central Champion is off to Team NSN, where he'll be for at least the next three seasons.

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Groupama have signed 22-year-old Italian Ludovico Crescioli from Palti Visit Malta.

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He won the Giro della Panina this year, whilst Total Energies have lost another two riders.

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Thomas Bonnet goes to Burgos BH, whilst Pierre Thierry is heading to Cofidis.

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In other news, Pauline Ferron-Pravot won't race again in 2026.

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After abandoning the Tour de France with illness back in August, she and the team decided some extended recovery will be the best thing in order to be back

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and ready for next season.

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Enjoy your time off Pauline.

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Just finally, it seems

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that Decathlon are moving their team paying agent to Switzerland in order to get around some French employment laws

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that make it more expensive to pay rider salaries than in other countries.

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From what I can gather, they will remain a French registered team, as they always have been, but they've registered a new entity in Geneva in Switzerland, Decathlon Cycling Team Swiss S.A.

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That should free up enough budget to be able to make

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their superstar rider Paul Sexass an offer of salary more in line with other big budget teams.

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Okay, that's the end of what was rather long racing news show I think for another week.

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Thanks as always for watching.

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I'll be back this time next week giving an update on

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much of Van der Poel's form at the Tour of Luxembourg amongst other races.

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I will see you then.

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