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☿ Cycling — Sat, 29 Aug 2026

Coquard finally got his moment, and it was earned the hard way — this is a sprinter who has spent years being the nearly-man of French cycling, fast enough to be dangerous but somehow always finding a way to be on the wrong side of a wheel when it mattered. Pedersen will be frustrated, because the Dane has the power to bulldoze most sprint finishes and finishing second to Coquard suggests something went wrong in the lead-out rather than at the line. Meeus in third keeps Red Bull-Bora in the conversation for stage wins, but this was Cofidis's day and they will take it without apology. Tomorrow the real question is whether the climbers have been watching the sprinters collect points with quiet patience, or whether the road finally tilts enough to let them answer back.

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🏁 VUELTA A ESPAÑA — Stage 8
🥇 COQUARD Bryan (COF) (3:47:06)
🥈 PEDERSEN Mads (LTK)
🥉 MEEUS Jordi (RBH)

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