{"id":541953,"date":"2026-04-21T00:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541953\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T00:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T00:23:21","slug":"cosnefroy-takes-swipe-at-vansevenant-after-amstel-he-didnt-pull-once","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/541953\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosnefroy takes swipe at Vansevenant after Amstel: \u201cHe didn\u2019t pull once\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy<\/a> stood on the podium of the Amstel Gold Race<\/a> for the second time<\/a> in his career on Sunday. In 2022, the Frenchman sprinted for victory against Michal Kwiatkowski, but this year third place was the best possible result. The UAE Team Emirates-XRG rider still managed to secure that final podium spot in the sprint from the chasing group behind Remco Evenepoel and Mattias Skjelmose. Afterwards, Cosnefroy could live perfectly well with third place. According to him, there simply was not much more in it, he told Cyclsm Actu<\/a>. \u201cAs they say, with \u2018what ifs\u2019 you can replay the race a thousand times. But unlike at Brabantse Pijl, I\u2019m not disappointed. There, I could have won if I had launched my attack 300 meters from the finish. Today, the riders up front were already gone. They were stronger. I did my best to get a podium place.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Cosnefroy was satisfied with his race, he also felt there had been room for improvement. \u201cI lost my position just before the crucial point. And then, in the chase group, there are always riders who don\u2019t work. That\u2019s just part of it. But I do think Mauri [Vansevenant] could have helped a bit,\u201d Cosnefroy said, offering a small criticism of his colleague. \u201cHe didn\u2019t take a pull once; I asked him several times. Well, that\u2019s how it goes. That\u2019s the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Cosnefroy was asked why he had not been team leader more often<\/p>\n

\u201cI think maybe that\u2019s just his way of riding,\u201d Cosnefroy continued. He was, however, full of praise for his compatriot Alex Baudin of EF Education-EasyPost. \u201cAlex and I rode really well together, and we know each other very well. We live close to each other and sometimes train together. So we worked together as well as we could. But at a certain point, the fatigue started to hit. And on the final time up the Cauberg, I realized we were never going to get back to the front.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Cosnefroy spent the first races of the season mainly working for others, he has now had two opportunities for himself at Brabantse Pijl and the Amstel Gold Race. The Frenchman said he had received plenty of questions from people asking when he would finally be given leadership duties. \u201cBut the team has always had confidence in me. You just have to match the right race with the right form, and at the start of the season I wasn\u2019t in sparkling shape.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThat comes race after race, and I think Tirreno-Adriatico also did me good,\u201d Cosnefroy said. \u201cAnd, well, at the Tour of Flanders I\u2019m not a leader. That is completely normal, because I don\u2019t have the profile for that. The team has always trusted me, and now it\u2019s simply clicking because I\u2019m in good form and the terrain suits me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beno\u00eet Cosnefroy stood on the podium of the Amstel Gold Race for the second time in his career…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":541954,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[121123,109467,4985,101,12183,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-541953","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-amstel-gold-race","9":"tag-benoit-cosnefroy","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-uae-team-emirates-xrg","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=541953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/541954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}