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At one point in the first rainy edition of the Paris-Roubaix race, after almost twenty years, it looked like a sovereign triumph for Gianni Moscon.

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05.10.2021 09:05

Gianni Moscon during the Paris – Roubaix race.

The Italian cyclist of the Ineos Grenadiers team was not one of the biggest favorites of the 118th year of the “wet” Queen of the Classics, but he had excellent legs on Sunday.

About 53 km before the finish line at the velodrome in Roubaix, he went for a daring solo and set a lead of 1:10 min over the group with the Dutchman Mathieu van der Poel and the Italian Sonny Colbrelli.

But then he got a defect on the wet cubes and had to change his bike. And later, 25 km before the finish, he fell, when he almost found himself among the spectators at the track. A few of them jumped in front of him.

And such things are not forgiven in the toughest one-off races in the profipeloton. A strong three-member group overtook him, pushed past him like a fast next to a person, and finally reached the finish line in the least desired fourth place with a gap of 44 seconds behind the victorious Colbrelli.

“Apparently my pressure dropped after five hours of driving, so I stabbed the bike. The bike started to behave differently than before, but it has to be said that it was also quite slippery.

Later I fell, which is bad luck. On the other hand, if you drive at your limit, you also make mistakes, “admitted Gianni Moscon, citing the specialized website CyclingNews.com.

“I laid the cards on the table very soon. I went on the attack far before the finish line, but I was unlucky. When the group behind me caught up with me, I no longer had the legs to follow them.

Who knows how it would turn out without these problems. Fourth place? I will try again in a year, “said the 27-year-old Italian.

According to Moscon, the Paris-Roubaix race is one of the most beautiful in the cycling calendar.

“This year it was a great theater. I didn’t win, but the Italian won, and as we celebrate the cycling nation.

I’m looking forward to some time off now. I still don’t know if I will present myself at the race around Lombardy next Saturday, “he added with a view.

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Moscon also had a sticker of a troubled cyclist in the past.

In 2016, he was convicted of camera recordings of a racist attack on a dark-skinned racer by Frenchman Kevin Reza (FDJ) during a stage at the Tour de Romandie in France. He later apologized to the Frenchman, but his Sky team withdrew him from the race for six weeks.

A year later, however, he showed his fleeting nature again at the Tour de France. During the stage from Millau to Carcassonne, he hit the face of Franz Élie Gesbert of the Fortuneo-Samsic team.

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This was followed by expulsion from the Tour de France and cessation of activities for five weeks from the International Cycling Union.