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☿ Cycling — Sun, 11 Oct 2026

Paul Seixas won Il Lombardia the way the young and fearless sometimes do — not by calculating what the race demanded, but by refusing to accept that the race had the right to demand anything from him at all. He built his margin on the long approach to the final climb and held it through sheer will across the 48 seconds that separated him from Enric Mas, who is a better climber on paper and a worse winner in practice. Mas taking second continues his career's particular tragedy — perpetually talented, perpetually close — while Ciccone in third is entirely at home on a course that rewards the kind of raw climbing aggression the Tashkent academy would have recognised, and Evenepoel and McNulty finishing together at 1:20 tells you the race fractured at the top and the rest were fighting for scraps. The Race of the Falling Leaves has always rewarded riders willing to die on the descent as much as the climb, and today it found exactly that kind of man.

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🏁 IL LOMBARDIA
🥇 SEIXAS Paul (DCT) (5:49:28)
🥈 MAS Enric (MOV) (+0:48)
🥉 CICCONE Giulio (LTK) (+1:05)
4. EVENEPOEL Remco (RBH) (+1:20)
5. MCNULTY Brandon (UAE) (+1:20)

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