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  "description": "20-year-old Andrew \"AJ\" August has won stage 6 of Itzulia Basque after spending a dramatic day up the road in the breakaway. The race's finale was staged over a punchy 135.2 km with six classified climbs and over 3,000 metres of elevation – wall to wall rain made the day extra-complicated.\n\nWith much of the race so far dominated by French phenom Paul Seixas who held a comfortable lead going into the final stage, his team Decathlon-CMA CGM was happy to let more than 30 riders up the road to conte",
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  "textContent": "20-year-old Andrew \"AJ\" August has won stage 6 of Itzulia Basque after spending a dramatic day up the road in the breakaway. The race's finale was staged over a punchy 135.2 km with six classified climbs and over 3,000 metres of elevation – wall to wall rain made the day extra-complicated.\n\nWith much of the race so far dominated by French phenom Paul Seixas who held a comfortable lead going into the final stage, his team Decathlon-CMA CGM was happy to let more than 30 riders up the road to contest the stage. Ben Healy, Mattias Skjelmose and Marc Soler were particularly keen to get things moving, but it was a late attack from August and Movistar's Raúl García 12 km from the finish that defined the outcome, with August going solo 2 km later to seek out his first WorldTour win.\n\nIn the GC competition, Red Bull-Bora Hansgrohe tried once again to pressurise the young French wonder, but Seixas had no time for it, even distancing second-overall Florian Lipowitz for a number of kilometres before the groups came back together. Third-place Primož Roglič, however, had a very bad day, dropping off the podium and out of the top five altogether, as Tobias Johannessen and Uno-X Mobility made good use of a day in the break to leap from 11th to a close third overall, the Norwegian's first ever WorldTour GC podium.\n\n[race_result id=6 stage_id=90112 count=5 gc=0 year=2026]\n\n[race_result id=6 stage_id=90112 count=5 gc=5 year=2026]",
  "title": "AJ August wins Itzulia Basque Country finale, Seixas seals overall",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-11T16:03:35.792Z"
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