Tour Down Under '23, Stage 2: Bringing Their Man Back

Victor Lafay (Cofidis) had an ill-timed mechanical.  With just 25 kilometers to race nearly his whole team came back to help pull him back up to the tail of the peloton.  Davide Cimolai had just swung off having done what he could, leaving the effort to Andre Carvalho (and the team car).  On Lafay's wheel is Harrison Wood holding himself in reserve for the final effort to get Cofidis' best general classification hope back into the front group.  They did get there in the end finishing with the main peloton just 11 seconds off of the time of the stage winner.

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Paris Roubaix: In Search of Pave

Having come off the first set of cobblestones a few seconds behind the front group, this trio of Tom Van Asbroeck (Israel Start Up Nation), Andre Carvalho (Cofidis) and Tosh Van Der Sande (Lotto Soudal) were just about to tag back onto the group that have dropped them on Sector 30.  They may have been less than thrilled to realize that they were catching on just as the approached the Cappalle a Reusnes section (#24).  With 130 kilometers to race, this was going to be the order, the accordion that is Paris Roubaix.  Some riders can open a gap on the cobbles, and others have to chase back on the smooth tarmac between each section as they wind there way through the north of France.

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