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<\/p>\nVan der Poel crushes Van Aert, Ganna, Del Toro and a bunch of hitters at Tirreno-Adriatico in tactical small-group finale. \n<\/p>\n
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Updated March 12, 2026 11:55AM<\/p>\n
Mathieu van der Poel<\/a> uncorked a wild long sprint to deny the best of the bunch on Thursday at Tirreno-Adriatico<\/a>.<\/p>\n The flying Dutchman left the likes of Wout van Aert, Filippo Ganna, Matteo Jorgenson, and Isaac del Toro choking on his exhaust with a 300m sprint toward his second victory of the week at the Italian tour.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s victory coming just nine days ahead of Milan-San Remo, MVDP is looking more than ready for a brawl with Tadej Poga\u010dar over the Poggio and down the Via Roma.<\/p>\n \u201cI could play a bit of a gamble, because I\u2019d already won a stage,\u201d Van der Poel said at the finish. \u201cI waited for the sprint and did everything perfectly in the final kilometer, I think.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was a tough day. I\u2019m glad I was able to finish it off, and I\u2019m happy with my form,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Giulio Pellizzari and Tobias Johannessen were next-best behind Van der Poel after a tense, tactical final 10km of racing.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Visma-Lease a Bike lit the fuse of Thursday\u2019s stage but came away empty-handed.<\/p>\n Jorgenson split and then controlled the group through the final 15km for Van Aert, but the Burly Belgian ultimately couldn\u2019t match his long-time rival\u2019s long-burning kick.<\/p>\n Del Toro was also active in the final but lost his leader\u2019s jersey to Pellizzari. Bonus seconds at the line put the Italian star two seconds up on GC.<\/p>\n Del Toro and Pellizzari will be front and center of Friday\u2019s extra-hilly stage. With close to 4,000m climbing across 185km, Van der Poel might struggle to secure his hat-trick before the weekend.<\/p>\n Results: Tirreno-Adriatico Stage 4<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Van der Poel crushes Van Aert, Ganna, Del Toro and a bunch of hitters at Tirreno-Adriatico in tactical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[168574,49,48,635,54263,82,73156,88388,75783,207193,54267],"class_list":["post-532294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-audio-true","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-parent_category-road","tag-sports","tag-tag-giulio-pellizzari","tag-tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-tag-mathieu-van-der-poel","tag-tag-tirreno-adriatico","tag-type-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532294","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=532294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}