{"id":256724,"date":"2025-11-02T13:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256724\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:05:10","slug":"milan-the-fastest-in-criterium-singapore-but-healy-almost-upsets-sprinters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/256724\/","title":{"rendered":"Milan the fastest in Criterium Singapore, but Healy almost upsets sprinters"},"content":{"rendered":"

You’ve read this right \u2014 there\u2019s still racing going on in November! On the other side of the world, to be precise, in Singapore. In the small city-state, the organizers of the Tour de France laid out a compact but fast circuit where the riders battled for victory in a criterium. Jonathan Milan<\/a> (Lidl\u2013Trek) proved to be the strongest, beating Biniam Girmay<\/a> (Intermarch\u00e9\u2013Wanty) and Jasper Philipsen<\/a> (Alpecin\u2013Deceuninck).The EFGH Singapore Criterium has now been organized for several years<\/a> by A.S.O., the same company behind the Tour de France. Each year, they manage to bring some of the biggest Tour stars to Asia, roughly a month after the road season officially ends. This year was no different, with Milan, Girmay, and Philipsen joined by Primoz Roglic, Ben Healy<\/a>, Iv\u00e1n Romeo, and Jordi Meeus.The course wasn\u2019t exactly mountainous, so a sprint finish was expected. Still, there were plenty of attacks in an attempt to avoid one. Healy wasn\u2019t part of those \u2014 the Irishman from EF Education\u2013EasyPost punctured<\/a>, and the mechanics weren\u2019t ready to help him immediately. It took ages, and the delay was long enough that he had to wait a lap before he was allowed to rejoin the race. He had done one lap less \u2014 but could he still try to win?<\/p>\n

Read on below the video!<\/p>\n

Healy attacks, sprinters chase<\/p>\n

With fresh legs, Healy managed to rejoin the peloton and even launched an attack, but he was caught under the flamme rouge. From there, it was all about the sprint. It wasn\u2019t a huge bunch anymore \u2014 the field had been heavily reduced. The teams of Milan and Philipsen set up their lead-outs, and the tension rose.<\/p>\n

Philipsen was the first to exit the final corner and kicked off the sprint early. But on the opposite side of the road, Girmay and Milan surged past him with ease. The Italian, wearing his green points jersey, proved to be the fastest of them all and claimed victory in Singapore. After the race, he was interviewed by none other than Sir Mark Cavendish \u2014 the perfect finish to a show race in the tropics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You’ve read this right \u2014 there\u2019s still racing going on in November! On the other side of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-256724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256724","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=256724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}