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Checkmate: How one rider turned two seemingly doomed attacks into a victory at E3 – CyclingTips
Kasper Asgreen won the E3 Saxo Bank classic with two solo attacks, but was it all about the watts?
Kasper Asgreen put on a dominant display to win the E3 Saxo Bank Classic on Friday, making two solo attacks in the final 70km of the World Tour race named after a motorway. Along the way, he showed how a single rider can put in two seemingly doomed moves to secure a big victory.
Deceuninck-QuickStep signaled its intentions early in the race, splitting the peloton with a seven-man lead out on the flat roads leading to the Taaienberg setting up an attack from Stybar, Asgreen, Senechal, and Lampert…
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