Quinn Simmons<\/a> (Lidl-Trek) and Louis Barr\u00e9 (Intermarche-Want\u00e9) on the tough C\u00f4te de Camillien-Houde inside three laps to go. He then made his big move one lap later.<\/p>\nUnleashing a seated acceleration, he gapped Simmons and McNulty right away, with Barr\u00e9 losing contact moments before. Poga\u010dar gained time but then waited for McNulty after he shook off Simmons.<\/p>\n
The world champion did all the work inside the final 15km, being visibly stronger than McNulty on the climbs but riding within his limits for his teammate. They raced towards the finish together, where a beaming Poga\u010dar pushed his teammate forward to the biggest one day win of his career.<\/p>\n
Simmons raced in for third, with Neilson Powless (EF Education-EasyPost) taking fourth ahead of Adam Yates (UAE Team Emirates).<\/p>\n
McNulty\u2019s success was one of the most significant of his career, and is an experience he will cherish for a long, long time. <\/p>\n
\u201c[It means a lot] when you go one-two with a teammate, but when he is the world champion, obviously the best guy in the world, it is super special to go across the line like that,\u201d he smiled. \u201cIt\u2019s one of the most memorable days of my career so far.\u201d<\/p>\n
Poga\u010dar also savored it, and seemed back to his usual chirpy self. He had been subdued in the final week of the Tour de France, the reason for which his agent detailed this week to Velo. <\/p>\n
Big break clear, big names crack<\/p>\n
The Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al was the more difficult of the two Canadian WorldTour races and one deemed more suitable to climbers like Tadej Poga\u010dar. Even if the end of the race was more straightforward than that seen in Qu\u00e9bec, the C\u00f4te de Camillien-Houde was a tougher ascent than that encountered on Friday.<\/p>\n
The 1.8km climb averaged 8 percent and would be covered on each of the 17 laps. Together with three smaller climbs on the 12.3km circuit, it made for a very difficult day.<\/p>\n
Frank van den Broek (Team Picnic PostNL) raced clear 5km after the start and with 212km still to cover.<\/p>\n
Despite the distance from the finish Pascal Eenkhoorn (Soudal Quick-Step) quickly reacted, with American riders AJ August and Artem Shmidt (Ineos Grenadiers), J\u00f8rgen Nordhagen (Visma-Lease a Bike), Victor Lafay (Decathlon Ag2r La Mondiale Team) and Embret Svestad-B\u00e5rdeng (Ark\u00e9a-B&B Hotels) also keen to get involved.<\/p>\n
Nine riders jumped away from the bunch and joined up with the leaders with 120km left. Alex Baudin and Harry Sweeny were there for EF Education-EasyPost, while Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe had Laurence Pithie and Jan Tratnik.<\/p>\n
Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Marius Mayrhofer (Tudor Pro Cycling), Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ), Mauro Schmid (Jayco-AlUla) and Fredrik Dversnes (Uno X Mobility) were the others involved.<\/p>\n
Various riders faded out of the break due to the pace and tough course. UAE Team Emirates was chasing behind and reeled in the last of those out front with 69km left.<\/p>\n
Their momentum ensured that various big names had got into difficulty, with Wout van Aert (Visma-Lease a Bike), Michael Matthews (Jayco AlUla) and Friday\u2019s Qu\u00e9bec winner Julian Alaphilippe (Tudor Pro Cycling) all dropped. Giro winner Simon Yates (Visma-Lease a Bike) also went out the back and withdrew from the race.<\/p>\n
The UAE Team Emirates Show
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Brandon McNulty and his UAE Team Emirates-XRG teammate Tadej Poga\u010dar near the finish line at the 14th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al. Poga\u010dar gifted McNulty the win in the race (Photo: Szymon Gruchalski\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
UAE Team Emirates continued driving the bunch along, softening the peloton up for an almost-certain Poga\u010dar power show. Last year\u2019s runner-up Pello Bilao (Bahrain-Victorious) had a flat tire with 43km to go, while Tour de France podium finisher Oscar Onley (Picnic-PostNL) appeared to be in difficulty three kilometers later.<\/p>\n
US champion Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) and compatriot Brandon McNulty (UAE Team Emirates-XRG) darted clear 37km out and were joined by Louis Barr\u00e9 (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty). Poga\u010dar leaped clear very soon afterwards on the C\u00f4te Camillien-Houde and quickly bridged across, making for four strong leaders.<\/p>\n
The quartet had an advantage of 31 seconds 30km from the line, with McNulty driving the pace of the group and Poga\u010dar sitting on and saving energy. They had 53 seconds with two laps to go, with Barr\u00e9 dropped soon afterwards.<\/p>\n
Poga\u010dar put in one of his famous seated attacks on the C\u00f4te de Camillien-Houde with 23.4km to go, quickly moving clear of Simmons and McNulty. The latter subsequently attacked and with Poga\u010dar waiting ahead, joined his team leader with 15.4km to go.<\/p>\n
They raced through the start\/finish line for the final time some 32 seconds ahead of Simmons, with Poga\u010dar doing all the work. The Slovenian continued leading on the big climb, visibly stronger than McNulty there, and drove on towards the finish.<\/p>\n
The duo had a brief discussion just outside 2km to go before Poga\u010dar resumed at the front. He then pushed his teammate forward just before the line, both riders grinning broadly as they rolled across the line.<\/p>\n
It was the fourth win in a row for UAE Team Emirates, who triumphed with Poga\u010dar in 2022 and 2024, and with Adam Yates in 2023.<\/p>\n
More significantly, it was UAE\u2019s 85th success this year. That equals the historic total set by Team Colombia-HTC in 2009 and with several weeks left until the end of the season, it is almost certain that a new record will be set.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Defending champ Tadej Poga\u010dar gives up chance of third career win in Grand Prix Cycliste de Montr\u00e9al, waiting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,54263,82,77319,74266,68115,54266,77932,54267],"class_list":{"0":"post-145672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-parent_category-road","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tag-brandon-mcnulty","13":"tag-tag-grand-prix-cycliste-de-montreal","14":"tag-tag-quinn-simmons","15":"tag-tag-tadej-pogacar","16":"tag-tag-uae-team-emirates","17":"tag-type-article"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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