Arkéa Samsic have gotten a very important at Tirreno-Adriatico today, as Warren Barguil got himself in the breakaway of the day and had the best legs out of it. The Frenchman has showed good legs in the past few years in the hilly races, and today as gotten back to his winning ways on the steep streets of Fermo.
Benjamin Thomas (Cofidis), Xandro Meurisse (Alpecin-Fenix), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team), Warren Barguil and Clément Russo (Arkéa Samsic), Francesco Gavazzi and Vincenzo Albanese (EOLO - Kometa), Valentin Ferron (TotalEnergies), Gianluca Brambilla (Trek - Segafredo), Simone Velasco (Astana Qazaqstan Team), Jhonatan Restrepo (Drone Hopper - Androni Giocatolli) and Davide Ballerini (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team) set off on the day's breakaway. It was a furious start to the stage and a very strong group went up the road which made the task very hard for the teams who were looking to go for the stage win.
The group collaborated well and kept it's gap even as it entered the brutal final circuit around Fermo where UAE Team Emirates committed to a strong pace. On the penultimate ascent Warren Barguil and Benjamin Thomas went clear from the group, however most of the escapees came back together.
Barguil attacked again with 4.7 kilometers to go, he had seemed the strongest in the group and went solo once again before the final ascent into Fermo. He had the strongest legs out of the breakaway group and extended the gap in the final kilometers, taking a very important win, his first World Tour win since the 2017 Tour de France. Xandro Meurisse and Simone Velasco completed the podium, arriving a dozen of seconds after.
Whilst in the peloton Remco Evenepoel attacked with 8 kilometers to go, over the summit of the penultimate climb, with Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard the only ones responding. On the descent however, the trio completely missed a corner and not only were they caught, Evenepoel himself found himself chasing on the peloton he had just dropped, completely turning the race on it's head.
Whilst they all managed to make it back to the GC group, there was no footage of what happened in the final ascent, but the GC favourites arrived at the finish with only very small splits between them created in the sprint.
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- 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
- He will be lol, but he can still win on the climbs hahaawp04-11-2026
- I would love to have his inconsistency. How many wins this year? 2 TdF stages, a WC, a Euro championship, San Sebastian, multiple wins early year. Monument podiums. I'd take it. I don't think he has a chance in the TdF, but he is still amazing.mij04-11-2026
- He's not going to win the TdF. Maybe if they make every single stage a TT he could win. But I still believe Tadej would just sharpen his TT skills and win.mij04-11-2026
- You beat me to it. Should he make a full recovery (likely) and go light early in the year. One, two, three. Don't ask me, I don't give a damn. Should he be on a Feel-Like-He's-Fixin'-to-Die High.Yepperoni04-11-2026
- The deciding factor may be the (TBD) number of (any type of) kilometers without Pogacar.Yepperoni04-11-2026
- Unexplained chronic fatigue is an all too common bitch. The hard to find definitive answer may lie buried in gut mechanisms. A mystery of the deep.Yepperoni04-11-2026
- It's weird to say Evenepoel would be making a "serious mistake by adding the 2027 Giro d'Italia to his calendar, warning that such a decision could even be interpreted as a lack of confidence in his ability to win the Tour de France." It may well be a mistake but with so many commentators (of all sorts) continuously claiming almost everything Remco does as being a mistake, almost nobody should care what the pundits and the disparagers should say. His team may not want him to do the Giro, and that matters. But it's possibly or probably up to Remco to decide and it may not have to be decided on until a month or so ahead of the race. Yes , Remco is inconsistent much like the majority of the best riders but he's enjoying a period of not having been recently injured (or sick). Whatever he does he need not be concerned with critics who will second guess any perceived failure no matter what. I suspect he will have enough other races on his schedule so he won't be considering it. But the worst reason to not race it is because of what some will say - humorous that be.Yepperoni04-11-2026
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