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  "description": "Jayco-AlUla's Anders Foldager was best of a big bunch to win a mass gallop to the line at Friday's Brabantse Pijl, a tuneup for Sunday's big Ardennes opener at the Amstel Gold Race. The final kilometers were particularly tense and explosive, culminating in nearly a kilometer-long sprint to the line where several riders' hopes of victory were born and died in a matter of moments.\n\nAfter two earlier moves were launched and recaught, pre-race favorite Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ United) went clea",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-04-17T16:08:15.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Jayco-AlUla's Anders Foldager was best of a big bunch to win a mass gallop to the line at Friday's Brabantse Pijl, a tuneup for Sunday's big Ardennes opener at the Amstel Gold Race. The final kilometers were particularly tense and explosive, culminating in nearly a kilometer-long sprint to the line where several riders' hopes of victory were born and died in a matter of moments.\n\nAfter two earlier moves were launched and recaught, pre-race favorite Romain Gregoire (Groupama-FDJ United) went clear with 30 km to go on the final lap of the finishing circuit. Six other riders including previous winner Benoit Cosnefroy (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) and Tibor Del Grosso (Alpecin-Premier Tech) joined for a dangerous group of seven.\n\nAs counterattacks and catches behind blunted the chase momentum, with 6 km to go the attackers had a narrow 20-some seconds advantage over their pursuers. But eventually things organized for the chase and into the final uphill kick to the line in Overijse, the lead all but evaporated. Even as Ramses DeBruyne emptied himself to try to set up teammate Del Grosso, the catch was made in the big S-turn at the bottom of the climb.\n\nTotalEnergies' Mathieu Burgadeau threw a strong counterattack and briefly looked to have a gap but Uno-X Mobility's Anthon Charmig clawed him back, only for himself to get overhauled by a surging Caja Rural-Seguros RGA duo of Eduard Prades and Fernando Barceló. But it was Foldager, well back in the scrum, who had the best finishing kick to take the win on the line. It's the young Dane's second pro win after a stage of the 2024 Tour of Slovakia. Pinarello-Q36.5's Quinten Hermans was second, while in a sign of what might have been had the late break stayed clear, Cosnefroy managed third, just ahead of Gregoire.",
  "title": "Anders Foldager takes Brabantse Pijl in chaotic finish",
  "updatedAt": "2026-04-17T19:17:00.838Z"
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