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168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Strade Bianche is a race that always pairs dramatic racing with images to match, turning on scenery ranging from the green hills of Tuscany with dust from the white gravel roads billowing into the air through to the steep crowd-packed climb on the terrace-lined street that leads riders to the distinctive finish line in the Pi𝓡azzo del Campo.

The🧔 race may be one of the newest among the races that are given the title of Classi♋cs, with the men’s edition starting in 2007 and the women’s race being added in 2015, but it always remains one of the most photogenic. 

2023 was no exception, as while there may have been grey skies and rain in the lead up the sun shone on Saturday, leading to blue skies, and hard-packed roads, althoug𓆏h dry enough to still thro𓂃w up plumes of white dust.

What it did mean, however, was that the men’s edition was the fastest in race history, with 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tom Pidcock crossing the line solo to take victorꦜy in the race with an average speed of 40.636 kilometres per hour. 

The B🦄ritish Ineos Grenadiers rider started his move with over 50km to go, soon riding away from hiജs original companions Alberto Bettiol (EF Education-EasyPost) and Andrea Bagioli (Soudal-QuickStep) to join the riders from the early break. He then also left them behind, to take on the final 20km solo.

The gap at times shrunꩵk to within ten seconds, but his efforts to hold the chasers at bay meant Pidcock became the first Briton to win the me⭕n’s edition of the Strade Bianche, joining Lizzie Deignan as a victor at the event after she won the women’s race in 2016.

In the women’s event this year, 🦋Kristen Faulkner (Jayco-AlUla) was hold🍨ing out the front right until the final 600 metres, wh𝔉en SD Worx teammates Demi Vollering – who had earlier in the race had to contend with the unnerving presence of a horse on the course – and Lotte Kopecky made the junction. ♚;

They rode the final stages of the race together to distance the rider from the United States, but when the line approached while it was clear that the Strade Bianche win would go to SD Worx, 168澳洲5最新开奖结🔜果:the confusion over what was next 𒁏began. 

Was it the defending champion Kopecky who would take the line first or Vollering? Even after they crossed that question wasn’t answered, with the jury having to review a tight photo finish between the teammates after the Belgian 2﷽022 winner launched and th🅠en Vollering came back to terms with a surge to the line. 

In the end, it was 168澳洲5最新开𝓡奖结果:Vollering who took the Strade Bianche victory, taking the top step of the Italian race for the first time and giving SD Worx a three-year run of v꧟ictories at the race, each delivered by a different rider.

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