Tadej Pogaar won a tough edition of the GP de Montral on Sunday. After 221 kilometres of racing in the Canadian city, he was the first to finish on Avenue du Parc. The Slovenian from UAE Team Emirates beat Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma) in a hard sprint from a leading group of five. Andrea Bagioli (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) finished third.GP Montral’22:The leading group of the day consisted of six riders: Florian Vermeersch (Lotto Soudal), Antoine Duchesne (Groupama-FDJ), Tho Delacroix (Intermarch-Wanty-Gobert), Eddy Fin (Cofidis), Andreas Leknessund (DSM) and Antonio Nibali (Astana Qazaqstan). They managed a lead of more than 6 minutes. A total of eighteen laps of 12.3 kilometres were on the program, with the Cte Camillien-Houde (1.8km at 8%), the Cte de Polytechnique (780 metres at 6%), the Pagnuelo (535 metres at 7.5%) on each circuit. The finishing straight on the Avenue du Parc climbed 560 metres at 4%.Grand Prix Cycliste de Montral 2022 profileUAE Team Emirates and Jumbo-Visma set the pace in the peloton and reduced the lead, where Nibali and Fin had dropped out early, to 3 minutes. Especially the team of Tadej Pogaar wanted to make the race hard. A bad day for Biniam Girmay, who felt sick and had to give up five laps before the finish. Peter Sagan also didn’t make it to the finish. Vermeersch, Delacroix and Leknessund survived the longest. They started the last 50 kilometres with a 2:30 lead. Not much later, Leknessund left his two fellow escapees behind. The Norwegian of…
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