Dusan Rajovic<\/a>, Davide Persico and Marceli Boguslawski (winner of 7 sprints in 2025).<\/p>\n
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However at the end of the three-hour race, it was ultimately a 19-year-old Czech sprinter Adam Brad\u00e1\u010d (Factor Racing) whose dominance allowed for a celebration already before the finish line… At least that’s what he probably thought at that moment.<\/p>\n
The biggest race favourite Dusan Rajovic was not going to give up just yet and in a last-ditch effort, he threw his bike across the finish line next to the celebrating Brad\u00e1\u010d. A moment of silence. Who won? Did Brad\u00e1\u010d throw away his first elite-category victory and did an ‘Alaphilippe’?<\/p>\n
The jury has taken its sweet time to decipher this mystery and when the final decision came, it was a shock for everyone… The race has two winners!<\/p>\n
After a thorough examination of the photo finish, the jury could not find a clear difference between the front wheels of Brad\u00e1\u010d and Rajovic, declaring a draw. Thus, both riders got to share the race trophy and a title of “winner”. Ex-pro Erik Fetter (United Shipping) completed the podium.<\/p>\n
A heart-warming finish to the race, but the die-hard cycling fans can be saddened that we haven’t seen UCI’s ‘Dead Heat’ rule in practice. (In case of a draw for 1st place, riders would be to race one-on-one in a 1-kilometer duel for the victory).<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An old saying goes that “at the end of the day, only one can win in a race”.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,205335,82],"class_list":["post-520289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-dusan-rajovic","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520289","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=520289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}