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Milan wins Dauphine stage two to take over yellow jersey
Jonathan Milan has won four Grand Tour stages - all at the Giro d'Italia in the past two years [Getty Images] Jonathan Milan won stage two of the Criterium du Dauphine with a sprint finish in Issoire. Lidl-Trek's lead-out train hit the front during the final kilometre of the 204.6km ride from Premilhat, and they left Milan alone with 150m remaining. Advertisement This year's Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix winner Mathieu van der Poel then fought hard to catch Milan. But the Italian held on to clinch his first road race win in France, with British rider Fred Wright edging out Van der Poel for second. Milan also claimed the yellow jersey from reigning Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champion Tadej Pogacar, who won the opening stage on Sunday. "It was really tough," said Milan, 24. "Yesterday and today, I suffered a lot. "At one point I was really on the limit, but I have to say thanks to my team-mates because they brought me back. Advertisement "We knew we had to take the last corner at the front, and it was just a perfect lead-out. I'm really happy because this means a lot to all of us." Local rider Romain Bardet, who is competing in his last professional race, attacked on the final categorised climb of the day and built a 20-second lead. But Bardet did not get any support in the breakaway so the peloton soon closed the gap, with Lidl Trek putting Milan in a prime position during the finish. Stage three will begin in the 34-year-old Bardet's hometown of Brioude. Stage two results Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) 4hrs 54mins 49secs Fred Wright (GB/Bahrain Victorious) Same time Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) Stian Edvardsen-Fredheim (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) Emilien Jeanniere (Fra/TotalEnergies) Bastien Tronchon (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz/XDS Astana) Matis Louvel (Fra/Israel-Premier Tech) Clement Venturini (Fra/Arkea-B&B Hotels) Matteo Trentin (Ita/Tudor Pro Cycling) (all same time) General classification after stage two Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) 9hrs 34mins 51secs Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) Same time Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) +2secs Fred Wright (GB/Bahrain Victorious) +4secs Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +4secs Hugo Page (Fra/Intermarche-Wanty) +8secs Anders Foldager (Den/Jayco-AlUla) +9secs Nils Politt (Ger/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +9secs Bastien Tronchon (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +10secs Emilien Jeanniere (Fra/TotalEnergies) +10secs Advertisement
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Milan wins Dauphine stage two to take over yellow jersey
Jonathan Milan has won four Grand Tour stages - all at the Giro d'Italia in the past two years [Getty Images] Jonathan Milan won stage two of the Criterium du Dauphine with a sprint finish in Issoire. Lidl-Trek's lead-out train hit the front during the final kilometre of the 204.6km ride from Premilhat, and they left Milan alone with 150m remaining. Advertisement This year's Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix winner Mathieu van der Poel then fought hard to catch Milan. But the Italian held on to clinch his first road race win in France, with British rider Fred Wright edging out Van der Poel for second. Milan also claimed the yellow jersey from reigning Tour de France and Giro d'Italia champion Tadej Pogacar, who won the opening stage on Sunday. "It was really tough," said Milan, 24. "Yesterday and today, I suffered a lot. "At one point I was really on the limit, but I have to say thanks to my team-mates because they brought me back. Advertisement "We knew we had to take the last corner at the front, and it was just a perfect lead-out. I'm really happy because this means a lot to all of us." Local rider Romain Bardet, who is competing in his last professional race, attacked on the final categorised climb of the day and built a 20-second lead. But Bardet did not get any support in the breakaway so the peloton soon closed the gap, with Lidl Trek putting Milan in a prime position during the finish. Stage three will begin in the 34-year-old Bardet's hometown of Brioude. Stage two results Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) 4hrs 54mins 49secs Fred Wright (GB/Bahrain Victorious) Same time Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) Stian Edvardsen-Fredheim (Nor/Uno-X Mobility) Emilien Jeanniere (Fra/TotalEnergies) Bastien Tronchon (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kaz/XDS Astana) Matis Louvel (Fra/Israel-Premier Tech) Clement Venturini (Fra/Arkea-B&B Hotels) Matteo Trentin (Ita/Tudor Pro Cycling) (all same time) General classification after stage two Jonathan Milan (Ita/Lidl-Trek) 9hrs 34mins 51secs Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) Same time Mathieu van der Poel (Ned/Alpecin-Deceuninck) +2secs Fred Wright (GB/Bahrain Victorious) +4secs Jonas Vingegaard (Den/Visma-Lease a Bike) +4secs Hugo Page (Fra/Intermarche-Wanty) +8secs Anders Foldager (Den/Jayco-AlUla) +9secs Nils Politt (Ger/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) +9secs Bastien Tronchon (Fra/Decathlon AG2R La Mondiale) +10secs Emilien Jeanniere (Fra/TotalEnergies) +10secs Advertisement
The Guardian
27-04-2025
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Tadej Pogacar and Mauritius' Kim Le Court claim Liège-Bastogne-Liège glory
Tadej Pogacar launched one of his trademark uphill attacks to win the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic race for the third time on Sunday. The defending champion made his move some 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the end of the undulating 252km (156 mile) trek to open up a gap of 10 seconds at the top, and then kept increasing it all the way to the line. It was his third victory overall at the spring classic race, which is also one of the five 'monuments' in one-day cycling along with Paris-Roubaix on the cobbles, the Tour of Lombardy, Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders. Pogacar now has nine 'monument' victories. The Slovenian was so far ahead Sunday that he even had time to turn and smile at the roadside camera filming him, then touched hands with fans near the finish before raising his arms in the air with victory assured. Pogacar won in just over six hours and finished one minute, three seconds ahead of Italian Giulio Ciccone in second and Irishman Ben Healy in third. Ciccone and Healy contested a sprint to the line for second place. In decent racing conditions, Pogacar's UAE Team-Emirates teammates increased the speed at the front of the main pack and the peloton caught a small group of front-runners with 60 kilometers to go, and with the main favourites still in contention. But when Pogačar surged ahead on the Côte de La Redoute climb, no rider could follow him. It was a similar story to Wednesday, when Pogacar launched a trademark uphill attack to win the Flèche Wallonne classic for the second time. It was a disappointing race for the two-time champion, Remco Evenepoel, as the Belgian rider was dropped by Pogacar up the Redoute climb. Evenepoel could not gain any time back and instead dropped down to finish in 59th place, 3min 11sec behind Pogačar. The Mauritian rider Kim Le Court won the women's race for the first time as four riders contested a sprint finish. The 2023 champion, Demi Vollering, attacked first but Le Court countered her and then held off Dutch rider Puck Pieterse, who won the Flèche Wallonne classic on Wednesday. Pieterse finished second ahead of compatriot Vollering and French rider Cédrine Kerbaol in fourth. The four riders completed the 152.9km (94.8 mile) route in four hours, 15 minutes and 42 seconds. It was the first classics win for the 29-year-old Le Court. Kerbaol broke ahead near the end and led by 14 seconds with 11 kilometers left and threatened to extend her advantage, but Pieterse went after her. The world road race champion, Lotte Kopecky of Belgium, could not follow and cracked in the final climb up Roche-aux-Faucons. But Pieterse, Vollering and Le Court caught Kerbaol with a few kilometers remaining to make it a four-way sprint finish. Kopecky rolled in fifth, 24 seconds behind.
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27-04-2025
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Pogacar wins third Liege-Bastogne-Liege title
World champion Tadej Pogacar won his third Liege-Bastogne-Liege with a dominant showing in the Belgian one-day classic as Mauritian Kim le Court took the biggest win of her career in the women's race. Slovenian Pogecar attacked on the Cote de la Redoute climb with 35km of the 252km course remaining and expertly stayed clear to defend his title, having also won in 2021. Italy's Giulio Ciccone edged out Ireland's Ben Healy to claim second, finishing just over a minute down on Pogacar. Pogacar, 26, is the first rider to finish on the podium in six successive 'Monuments' - the five most prestigious one-day races in men's cycling. After winning Liege and Il Lombardia last year, he finished third at this year's Milan-San Remo, won the Tour of Flanders and was runner-up at Paris-Roubaix. The three-time Tour de France champion has also finished on the podium in the past eight Monuments he has entered, winning five. This is Pogacar's ninth Monument win overall. Only Eddy Merckx, widely regarded as the greatest cyclist of all time, with 19, and fellow Belgian great Roger de Vlaeminck (11) have more victories in these famous races. Victory in Belgium caps another stunning spring classics campaign by Pogacar, with the UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider also winning Strade Bianche and Fleche Wallonne, as well as narrowly finishing second in the Amstel Gold Race. Le Court had enjoyed two fifth-place finishes this spring in the Milan-San Remo and Tour of Flanders. But it was still a shock when the 29-year-old AG Insurance-Soudal rider came out on top in a four-way sprint for the line ahead of Dutch duo Puck Pieterse and Demi Vollering, and France's Cedrine Kerbaol. "I can't believe it. On the climb to La Roche-aux-Faucons [13 km from the finish line], I was completely out of breath. So to win ahead of the stars of the peloton, I can't believe it," said Le Court - the first African winner of a Monument race. World champion Lotte Kopecky was fifth. Pogacar overcomes wet conditions to win Fleche Wallonne Pogacar & record-breaking Kopecky claim Tour of Flanders wins The race was billed as a showdown between Pogacar and Olympic champion Remco Evenepoel, who won back-to-back Liege titles in 2022 and 2023 before suffering multiple bone fractures in a serious crash on a training ride last year. However, the Belgian struggled, caught out of position when Pogacar attacked and later dropped by the peloton on the final climb of the day. Instead it was the familiar sight of Pogacar mounting an attack no-one could match. Britain's Tom Pidcock attempted to bring him back alongside Healy but Pogacar built up a lead of 30 seconds within 5km and the gap kept growing. Ciccone and Julian Alaphilippe joined Pidcock and Healy but they could not get organised, with Ciccone and Healy eventually getting clear to compete for the two podium spots left. Pidcock finished ninth. In reality this was just about Pogacar's increasingly possible quest to rival Merckx's standing as the greatest. Pogacar is only the seventh rider to win three or more editions of Liege, the oldest of the Monuments, with Merckx holding the record of five wins. Mercx won five Tours de France - including 34 stages - five Giro d'Italia titles, one Vuelta a Espana and three world road crowns, as well as his 19 monuments. Pogacar has three Tour victories, including 17 stages, one Giro, one Vuelta, one world title and nine monuments. Only Merckx (1974), Ireland's Stephan Roche (1987) and Pogacar (2024) have completed the triple crown of winning the Giro, Tour and world championship in the same year. Pogacar is unlikely to win as many Giro titles as Merckx, given the demands of targeting the Tour each year, but every other tally could well be in his sights. After he attempts to defend his Tour title in July, Pogacar will be heavily favoured to claim a 10th Monument before the season ends at Il Lombardia in October. Pogacar has won the last four consecutive editions of the one-day race in Italy and will be seeking to equal Fausto Coppi's record of five wins overall. Tadej Pogacar (Slo/UAE Team Emirates-XRG) 6hrs 0mins 9secs Giulio Ciccone (Ita/Lidl-Trek) +1min 03secs Ben Healy (Ire/EF Education-EasyPost) Same time Simone Velasco (Ita/XDS Astana Team) +1min 10secs Thibau Nys (Bel/Lidl-Trek) Same time Andrea Bagioli (Ita/Lidl-Trek) Daniel Martinez (Col/Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe) Axel Laurance (Fra/Ineos Grenadiers) Tom Pidcock (GB/Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team) Neilson Powless (US/EF Education-EasyPost) Kim le Court (Mus/AG Insurance-Soudal) 4hrs 15mins 42secs Puck Pieterse (Ned/Fenix-Deceuninck) same time Demi Vollering (Ned/ FDJ-Suez) Cedrine Kerbaol (Fra/ EF Education-Oatly) Lotte Kopecky (Bel/Team SD Worx-Protime) +24s Marlen Reusser (Swi/Movistar) same time Mary Niamh Fisher-Black (NZ/Lidl-Trek) Monica Trinca Colonel (Ita/Liv-Alula-Jayco) Katarzyna Anna Niewiadoma (Pol/Canyon-Sram Zondacrypto) Yara Kastelijn (Ned/Fenix-Deceuninck)
Toronto Star
27-04-2025
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- Toronto Star
Cycling star Pogačar wins Liège–Bastogne–Liège for third time. Kim Le Court takes women's race
Cycling star Tadej Pogačar launched one of his trademark uphill attacks to win the Liège–Bastogne–Liège classic race for the third time on Sunday. The defending champion made his move some 35 kilometers (22 miles) from the end of the undulating 252-kilometer (156-mile) trek to open up a gap of 10 seconds at the top, and then kept increasing it all the way to the line. It was his third victory overall at the spring classic race, which is also one of the five 'monuments' in one-day cycling along with Paris-Roubaix on the cobbles, the Tour of Lombardy, Milan-San Remo and the Tour of Flanders. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW Pogačar now has nine 'monument' victories. He was so far ahead Sunday that he even had time to turn and smile at the roadside camera filming him, then touched hands with fans near the finish before raising his arms in the air with victory assured. He won in just over six hours and finished 1 minute, 3 seconds ahead of Italian Giulio Ciccone in second and Irishman Ben Healy in third. They contested a sprint to the line. In decent racing conditions, Pogačar's UAE Team Emirates teammates increased the speed at the front of the main pack and the peloton caught a small group of front-runners with 60 kilometers to go, and with the main favorites still in contention. But when Pogačar surged ahead on the Côte de La Redoute climb, no rider could follow him. It was a similar story on Wednesday, when Pogačar launched a trademark uphill attack to win the Flèche Wallonne classic for the second time. The 26-year-old Slovenian will aim to win the showcase Tour de France for the fourth time later this year. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW It was a disappointing race for two-time champion Remco Evenepoel as the Belgian rider was dropped by Pogačar up the Redoute climb. The two-time Olympic champion could not gain any time back and instead dropped down to finish in 59th place, 3:11 behind Pogačar. Le Court stuns race favorites Mauritian rider Kim Le Court won the women's race for the first time as four riders contested a sprint finish. The 2023 champion Demi Vollering attacked first but Le Court countered her and then held off Dutchwoman Puck Pieterse, who won the Flèche Wallonne classic on Wednesday. Pieterse finished second ahead of countrywoman Vollering and French rider Cédrine Kerbaol in fourth. The four riders completed the 152.9-kilometer (94.8-mile) route in 4 hours, 15 minutes, 42 seconds. ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW It was the first classics win for the 29-year-old Le Court. Kerbaol broke ahead near the end and led by 14 seconds with 11 kilometers left and threatened to extend her advantage, but Pieterse went after her. World road race champion Lotte Kopecky of Belgium could not follow and cracked in the final climb up Roche-aux-Faucons. But Pieterse, Vollering and Le Court caught Kerbaol with a few kilometers remaining to make it a four-way sprint finish. Kopecky rolled in fifth, 24 seconds behind. ___ AP sports: Read more cycling news at
