{"id":497174,"date":"2026-02-24T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497174\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T22:03:09","slug":"the-longest-photo-finish-debate-clasica-de-almeria-jury-change-results-nine-days-after-the-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/497174\/","title":{"rendered":"The longest photo-finish debate \u2013 Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda jury change results nine days after the race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The results of the Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda<\/a> were updated on Tuesday, nine days after the race took place.<\/p>\n

After the lengthiest of reviews of the photo-finish, Dylan Groenewegen<\/a> (Unibet-Rose Rockets) was upgraded to the podium, at the expense of Matteo Moschetti (Pinarello-Q36.5).<\/p>\n

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Biniam Girmay<\/a> (NSN Pro Cycling) clearly won the Cl\u00e1sica de Almeria<\/a> in the south of Spain last Sunday, February 15, with Milan Fretin the runner-up just behind. But it was the tightest of calls for final podium place between Groenewegen and Moschetti, throwing their bikes to the line on either side of the Eritrean winner.<\/p>\n

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At the time, Moschetti was declared in third place, with Groenewegen in fourth.<\/p>\n

This was disputed at the time by Unibet-Rose Rockets, albeit in a tongue-in-cheek way. The team, which has built its marketing on social media and YouTube, posted a photo screenshot from the television coverage showing the moment Groenewegen\u2019s and Moschetti\u2019s wheels hit the line.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan someone share the finish photo? Asking for a friend\u2026\u201d read the caption.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: Unibet Rose Rockets on X (@rockets_cycling))<\/p>\n

More than a week later, they had their response.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAfter a reinvestigation of the finish photo at Clasica de Almeria, we got a message that Dylan actually finished 3rd instead of 4th, turning a strong sprint into a podium,\u201d said the team on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou didn\u2019t throw away those flowers already, right?\u201d they added, in a message to Moschetti\u2019s Pinarello-Q36.5 team.<\/p>\n

The UCI results have indeed been updated, with Groenewegen upgraded to third place. It’s not a win, but does add 25 UCI points to the team’s ranking \u2013 every little bit helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The results of the Cl\u00e1sica de Almer\u00eda were updated on Tuesday, nine days after the race took place.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":497175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82],"class_list":["post-497174","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\/497174","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=497174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}