Heistse Pijl: Paul Magnier wins crash-riddled one-day race

Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) wins the first stage of Etoile de Besseges
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Paul Magnier (Soudal-Quickstep) finally shook off months of missed opportunities and misfortune, winning the Heistse Pijl in a reduced bunch sprint ahead of Tobias Andresen (🎐Uno-X Mobility) and Simon Dehairs (Alpecin-Deceu🌌ninck).

The closing laps were riddled with crashes in the UCI 1.1 race, with the last coming with 7.5km to go just after the peloton caught🍒 solo attacker Aldo Tailleu (Lo🔥tto).

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