Benoit Cosnefroy leads home Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team one-two on stage 2 of Tour des Alpes Maritimes securing GC in the process
CyclingSunday, 18 February 2024 at 17:03
On a brilliant day for Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team, Benoit Cosnefroy led home and one-two finish from Aurelien Paret-Peintre on stage 2 of the Tour des Alpes Maritimes.
Five men had forced their way into the day's breakaway, including the brother of Jonathan Milan, Matteo Milan. As the race began to break up however, they were quickly swallowed by the attacks and counter-attacks from the bunch.
Heading into the final 10km, only Ewen Costiou was out ahead of the pack but his hopes of victory were soon quashed too. In the finale, it was Benoit Cosnefroy of Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale Team who took the win ahead of his teammate, Aurelien Paret-Peintre with Vincenzo Albanese completing the podium.
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- I thought he did quite well in that team if not for the illnesses and strings of bad luck.
KerisVroom13-05-2025 - For his sacrifice, he was rewarded with nice haircut by his team lead. It's heartwarming to see a team lead who appreciates his domestique.KerisVroom13-05-2025
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When you consider how often the elite have technical problems with their bikes, you have to wonder if given the choice (and paid for through some other form than sponsorship), some of the riders wouldn’t prefer being on a 2-3000€ bike.
My whole biking life has been spent on cheap second-hand bikes with minimal servicing, ridden to the end except twice where I bought a 1500€ new bike and I’ve ridden with groups of allsorts including national level where almost no-one falls outside the regularly replaced 5-10K range of purchases and I get fed up that there’s always someone that destroys the ride with their mechanical or now even « electrical » All I ever had were punctures, some broken spokes (which doesn’t matter for riding on on my kind of wheels) and one broken chain. How is it possible that on a bike like Remco’s he couldn’t switch gear today?
And a good one/two result for the cheapest world tour bikes. Approx 8,500 euros compared to 13 to 15k. for some other team bikes.