{"id":656537,"date":"2026-05-08T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656537\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:45:09","slug":"andresen-and-milan-angry-and-disappointed-after-giro-sprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/656537\/","title":{"rendered":"Andresen and Milan angry and disappointed after Giro sprints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia<\/a> should have delivered a spectacular mass sprint \u2014 but a huge crash in the final kilometre meant only a handful of riders made it to the front. Paul Magnier won, beating men who were, above all, disappointed and frustrated after a chaotic finale.Second on the day was Tobias Lund Andresen<\/a>, who was just far enough forward for Decathlon CMA CGM to escape the crash. Speaking to Eurosport<\/a>, the 23-year-old Dane was gutted. “My team did exactly what I wanted, but as expected it was a madhouse.”<\/p>\n

“I lost the wheel briefly, but we stuck to our plan and I told Tord (teammate Gudmestad \u2014 Ed.) that I wanted an early sprint. That was necessary because those other guys are faster. If someone other than Paul had been on my wheel in the end, I would have won.”<\/p>\n

And there lies the source of the frustration \u2014 it was so close, and Decathlon CMA CGM had done everything right. On top of that, Andresen escaped a crash he had sensed coming. “It happened on my right side. As expected, everyone went crazy \u2014 there were a lot of elbows flying around.”<\/p>\n

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Vernon, Milan and Ackermann miss outThe other riders behind Magnier and Andresen were equally gutted. Losing a sprint in a group that small hurts. Ethan Vernon finished third for NSN Cycling Team and said<\/a>: “You always have a plan, but it was pure chaos \u2014 crashes and riders I was losing. It never goes the way you want. We did the best we could.”Jonathan Milan<\/a> was also left shaking his head. But why? “The feeling was good, but we lost each other. I don’t even know how or where \u2014 but I found myself a long way back,” the Italian told Italian media<\/a>. “I had to ride back up to the front by myself over one and a half kilometres, and when I got there I latched onto the wheel of someone who wasn’t even sprinting. So I was too late.”Pascal Ackermann was also in the mix for Team Jayco AlUla, but came home only seventh. He said<\/a>: “It was a super-nervous sprint, thankfully I stayed upright. I picked the right moment to come from the front, but by then I already had too much lactate in my legs after choosing the wrong side in the sprint.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stage 1 of the Giro d’Italia should have delivered a spectacular mass sprint \u2014 but a huge crash…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,43199,15413,82,177189],"class_list":["post-656537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-giro-ditalia","tag-jonathan-milan","tag-sports","tag-tobias-lund-andresen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656537","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=656537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}