Siri, define acrobat 😇 Not a ‘regular photo finish’, but our Arnaud De Lie takes the win anyway in the Lotto Famenne Ardenne Classic 😀 #ForTijl Pictures: PhotoNews
"I prefer to sprint with two legs" - Arnaud De Lie doesn't plan to make a habit of incredible win at the Famenne Ardenne Classic
CyclingSunday, 01 October 2023 at 19:00
Arnaud De Lie took the win at the 2023 Famenne Ardenne Classic to continue his brilliant run of form, but that was only half of the story due to an incredibly dramatic finale.
When the Belgian of Lotto Dstny launched his sprint, victory looked assured however with less than 100m to go he broke a cleat and unclipped. Despite this untimely mistake, De Lie kept peddling one-legged and somehow managed to hold off Kaden Groves with his lunge for the line.
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"I prefer to sprint with two legs to the finish," he laughed in his post-race interview, looking back on the incident. "My cleat broke off and I lost my pedal. I'm glad I won, because I would have been a bit depressed if I would have lost."
"I was lucky that it happened fifty meters from the finish and not a hundred meters," he reflects. "I was a bit panicky, but I'm happy that I can win in my own region. A very special victory."
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- I think this was because there were junior women in the race. If a race has junior women am pretty sure it has to be less than 45 minutes. I believe a rule is coming in for next season that will fine organisers that don't put on a junior women's race a fine equivalent to the prize money. So fingers crossed we should see more longer elite and junior women's races from next season.NorrisHippocampe18-11-2024
- Of course he CAN. Big salary in cycling is not when you win but when they talk about you (and your team / sponsors). For every news about Jonas, MVdP or Wout there are 10 times more(!) news about Pidcock (like everyday for last 2 months?). Since cycling is advertising sport not competitive sport (in terms of from money comes from) Pidcock is winner and GOAT - change my mind. ;-)averagecyclist18-11-2024
- Why do the women CXs keep getting short changed with the length of theor races? They could have easily done another lap to put them at 50 minutes which is their time limit. Yet another CX race where they fail to reach this when they had a chance to. Come on ... the math isn't that hard to figure out lap times and divide into 50 min!frieders318-11-2024
- All pro cyclists are massively underpaid! The amount of riding and physical exertion they put their bodies through is crazy compared to other sports. I can't think of any other sport where you are physically active at a very high level of power output for hours on end each day.Pogboom17-11-2024
- When I was working for Starkist/Heinz my manager quit. So the next week my group was put under another manager. During our first meeting he asked if there was anything we needed to tell him. I said that I would be out the following week on vacation. He said "I don't know if I can let you go on vacation". I replied, "You can't tell if I can go. You can only tell me if I can come back".Sweep17-11-2024
- :-)Sweep17-11-2024
- What a mess there :-)
DareDevil17-11-2024 - So he read the comments here probably :-)DareDevil17-11-2024
- Alpecin is a MVDP and sprinter's team. It is unlikely that he will get a chance there as wellabstractengineer17-11-2024
- There’s no crying in cyclocross…Crashjames17-11-2024