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Too clever by half: Alaphilippe’s Tirreno sit-up backfires – CyclingTips
Alaphilippe tried to get a stage win for his teammate Stybar with a clever sit-up maneuver. It didn’t work.
It’s not often that Deceuninck-Quickstep gets it wrong, and when they do, the hiccup often involves Mathieu van der Poel or Wout van Aert. This one involved both.
On Friday at Tirreno-Adriatico, on a nasty little kicker of a climb to the finish, DQS botched it. Julian Alaphilipp’s intentions were good; the execution, well, that got Van Aerted.
The maneuver was a classic sit-up, the less aggressive sibling of the brake-check. Quickstep’s Zdenek Stybar was on the front, charging forward with Alaphilippe…
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