{"id":140165,"date":"2025-09-16T02:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140165\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:08:07","slug":"world-champion-lets-mcnulty-take-the-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/140165\/","title":{"rendered":"world champion lets McNulty take the win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon McNulty has won the GP Montr\u00e9al<\/a>, thanks to Tadej Pogacar<\/a>. The world champion executed a tactical masterpiece with UAE Team Emirates-XRG, delivering a performance we haven\u2019t seen from the team very often. The entire squad controlled the race, set the pace, and ultimately launched Pogacar into a solo move. But the team leader let McNulty come back and take the win in Canada.<\/p>\n

After the surprising outcome of Friday\u2019s GP Qu\u00e9bec, where Julian Alaphilippe won from an early breakaway, everyone knew that UAE Emirates-XRG would come to Montr\u00e9al with a point to prove. Pogacar had already won this tougher race of the Canadian duo in both 2022 and 2024, and on Sunday, he had his team take full control of the race.<\/p>\n

The course was 209.1 kilometers long, featuring seventeen local laps with the C\u00f4te Camillien-Houde (2.3 km at 6.3% average) on each one. A breakaway of no less than seven riders formed early on in the race. And after what happened in Qu\u00e9bec, it was worth watching closely to see how much room they’d be given.<\/p>\n

Not much, as it turned out.
\nJ\u00f8rgen Nordhagen (Visma\u2013Lease a Bike), Pascal Eenkhoorn (Soudal\u2013Quick-Step), Andrew August, Artem Shmidt (both INEOS Grenadiers), Victor Lafay (Decathlon AG2R), Frank van den Broek (Picnic PostNL), and Embret Svestad-Bardseng (Ark\u00e9a) were allowed a maximum gap of two minutes. But halfway through the race, only about 30 seconds of that was left. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the video!<\/p>\n

Strong breakaway, but UAE gives them no room<\/p>\n

Time for a new group of riders trying to bridge across. Nine riders made it up to the break: Mauro Schmid (Jayco AlUla), Laurence Pithie, Jan Tratnik (Red Bull-BORA-hansgrohe), Gianni Vermeersch (Alpecin-Deceuninck), Lewis Askey (Groupama-FDJ), Alex Baudin, Harry Sweeny (EF Education-EasyPost), Fredrik Dversnes (Uno-X), and Marius Mayrhofer (Tudor) joined in.<\/p>\n

After Eenkhoorn had to drop out of the break due to a crash, the leaders had to dig deep. UAE wasn\u2019t wasting any time, as they were going full gas from early on in the race, first with Nils Politt and then Tim Wellens. Big names like Wout van Aert (Visma) were dropped from the peloton, which gave the break no more than 30 seconds, with five laps to go.<\/p>\n

Five more laps of nearly 13 kilometers each remained, roughly 60 km total, and UAE just kept pushing, lap after lap. Qu\u00e9bec winner Alaphilippe got dropped, along with many others. The peloton had been reduced to just 20 riders, chasing a breakaway group that now only consisted of Schmid, August, Tratnik, Baudin, Svestad-Bardseng, Van den Broek, and Dversnes.<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the video.<\/p>\n

UAE Emirates-XRG ups the pace, McNulty launches Pogacar<\/p>\n

Once the break was caught with three laps to go, everyone was waiting for the big UAE move. It came with 37 kilometers left. After work from Pavel Sivakov, Brandon McNulty attacked to launch Pogacar. Quinn Simmons (Lidl-Trek) and Louis Barr\u00e9 (Intermarch\u00e9-Wanty) joined the move. The four pressed on full gas.<\/p>\n

McNulty pulled like a jet engine at the front<\/a>, and the group, including Pogacar, opened a 30-second gap on the men in pursuit. UAE had Sivakov, Jhonatan Narv\u00e1ez, and Adam Yates in that chasing group too, expertly shutting down any attempts to bridge across. A masterclass from UAE, especially given how much criticism they received in the Vuelta a Espa\u00f1a around Jo\u00e3o Almeida\u2019s support.With 23 kilometers to go, Pogacar made his move, and no one could follow suit<\/a>. The chase group was long gone, and the rainbow jersey dropped Simmons and Barr\u00e9 too. And McNulty? He waited, then saw his moment, dropped the two non-UAE riders. With 15 kilometers left, UAE was riding in first and second place in the race.<\/p>\n

Continue reading below the video.<\/p>\n

Pogacar waits for McNulty, but who will win in Montr\u00e9al?The big question: would Pogacar keep going? Or let McNulty come back? The gap was just 15 seconds, with Simmons and Barr\u00e9 already over 30 seconds back. The answer came quickly: Pogacar eased up, looked back a few times<\/a>, and allowed McNulty to rejoin. The only chaser still hanging on was Simmons, sitting about 30 seconds behind with 10 kilometers to go.<\/p>\n

And so the only question left was – would Pogacar give away the win? Or did he want to claim it himself?
\nOf course, it was the former. Pogacar has already won so much, including twice in Montr\u00e9al. And so the two UAE riders crossed the finish line together, with McNulty just a bit ahead.<\/p>\n

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