Cristian Scaroni does it again! Second win in as many days for the Italian on stage 1 of the 2025 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes
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XDS Astana Team's Cristian Scaroni has gone back to back in France with his second one day win in as many days. At the 2025 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes, the Italian upset the odds to take victory ahead of Bahrain - Victorious duo Santiago Buitrago and Lenny Martinez to take the stage 1 win.
Heading into the final 50km, just six riders from the breakaway remained ahead of the peloton. Those being Quentin Pacher (TotalEnergies), Baptiste Veistroffer (Lotto), Edoardo Zamperini (Arkéa - B&B Hôtels Continentale), Sergio Meris (Unibet Tietema Rockets), Morné Van Niekerk (St Michel - Preference Home - Auber93) and Kenny Molly (Van Rysel Roubaix).
With the time gap to the peloton already dropping below the one minute mark though, their hopes of holding on for victory looked slim. As it turned out, with 35km to go they were caught. Although there were no big attacks on the penultimate climb of the day, the steady pace at the front of the peloton did thin things out considerably.
On the final ascent of the Gourdon, Andrea Vendrame quickly went out on the attack. With 8km to go though, the Italian had already been reeled back in by the EF-led peloton.
The next big move came from Santiago Buitrago inside the final 7km, although Richard Carapaz was quickly on the wheel of his fellow South American, dragging Lenny Martinez and Cristian Scaroni clear with him. As Buitrago continued to stamp on the gas though, Carapaz himself was soon in trouble. Despite Scaroni being outnumbered by the Bahrain - Victorious duo of Martinez and Buitrago, the Astana man was content to roll through and work with his companions in the lead group.
The trio stayed together right until the line as well and despite being outnumbered, it was Scaroni who led from the front, holding off the power of Buitrago to take his second win in as many days.
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- Just shows that LA is not truly repentant. JUSTICE was served. No winner, no second , no third on the podium for those 7 years. No real winners could be determined, ever. Lance got to keep most of his money , he really should can it . He is toxic to cycling.dave08-04-2025
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- Even if not technically against the rules, this is just bad etiquette and frankly I hope the rest of pelaton remembers Arkea don't care about etiquette or honoring tradition which means they shouldn't benifit from it.HoopoeChai07-04-2025
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- Crash did not help, Out of position for first attack did not help, illness did not help, pacing was not the best either. MVDP has never raced to his limits against other riders but this is his characteristics when he cracks, he cracks big time just like his first elite men WC RR. Against Pogi he needed to be optimized and he is notabstractengineer07-04-2025
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