Lotto Dstny's Arnaud De Lie has continued to star on his return from Lyme Disease with a fabulous victory at Tro-Bro Léon from a reduced bunch sprint.
Seven riders got free early on to form the day's breakaway. With 50km to go, their lead was just over a minute from a much-thinned-out peloton, where a crash had meant only around 30 riders remained. As things began to come back together behind though, the breakaway was soon reeled in by the bunch and with around 20km to go, only Morne van Niekerk remained ahead.
With Arnaud De Lie out the back with an all-timed puncture, the Lotto Dstny leader's rivals were attempting to keep the pace high so that the Belgian couldn't get back into contact. With 15km to go though, De Lie finally regained contact.
Still around 15 seconds clear of the peloton heading into the final 10km though, was van Niekerk. When the South African was caught however, an elite group of three led the race into the final 2.5km of De Lie, Riley Sheehan and Pierre Gautherat. Despite the fact those three were caught in the finale by the chasers, there was no stopping De Lie from taking victory ahead of Clement Venturini and Gautherat.
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- 18 broken bones. 78 crashes, among 30 rider per year is a lot. so for a rider over 15 seasons, they will break their bones 7-8 times and crash 38 times.abstractengineer04-11-2026
- i dont think he is ready ot win against the top 2 or the 2nd rung of evenepoel, del toro , Almeida. In the third week in the TDF he was very very defensive, no attacks. i think he was exhausted. right now he needs time not the brutal Giro or the intense TDF.abstractengineer04-11-2026
- Rota is an excellent rider to get in a break with because he always does his turnchapmanesque04-11-2026
- That 3000 extra that the Tour de France is built up in the flat stages
Rafionain-Glas04-11-2026 - maybe this is something else they can protest in the streets of France.mij04-11-2026
- his Roubaix win was amazing. not to take anything away from him - arguably one of MVDP's wins was at the expense of a WVA flat - but so many things need to line up to get one of these. He had a perfect race with fewer bike issues on an attritional course. And crazy strong as usual. Glad he got this done.mij04-11-2026
- Orts was a super smart signing with the new rules regarding cross and UCI pointsmij04-11-2026
- yeah... you're right...PogiSloFans04-11-2026
- Podcast sounds great. Two so called experts stating the f*cking obvious.wrsty04-11-2026
- A mindset that reminds me of Tim Declerq. I loved watching that guy just pound away the kilometers, hours at the front, holding an entire breakaway in check on his own. Bjerg seems like a similar guy. Curling, the team sport.RidesHills04-11-2026
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