The 28-year-old Belgian was our first rider home Wednesday afternoon.
The fourth edition of O Gran Camiño, Galicia’s most important race, got underway this year from Portugal, with a 189.7km stage between Maia and Matosinhos. It was a pretty straightforward day, without any important obstacles for the peloton, who was determined to have a bunch sprint at the finish.
Soudal Quick-Step, who came to the start with seven riders – three racing for the World Tour team and four for the Devo squad – was prominent from the beginning of the stage, controlling the gap of the six escapees. Our youngsters put in a huge amount of work at the front of the peloton, bringing back both the original breakaway as well as the one that formed later, inside the last hour of the race.
Ten kilometers from the line, the peloton was again as one, and on the finishing straight, last year’s Piccolo Lombardia runner-up Federico Savino piloted Jordi Warlop through the field, helping the Belgian score a solid top five on the stage won by Magnus Cort (Uno X-Mobility).
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