Cycling, Moschetti makes history for fastest sprint ever

Rome, 8 February 2025 - Just in the months in which cycling is questioning itself about the increasingly crazy speeds, which many believe to be the main cause of the growing number of accidents in groups, in one of the first races of the season the fastest sprint ever was recorded: the winner was Matteo Moschetti, the protagonist you don't expect to end up in the history books of this sport.  

Data from Moschetti's record sprint

  The stage is that of theAlUla Tour 2025 and the Milanese runner imposed himself at a demonic pace on the day in which his Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team fhe also hailed the triumph in the general classification of the new purchase tom pidcock. Paradoxically, the sharpness of the British, called to the year of redemption after the declining final with the Ineos Grenadiers, has been overshadowed precisely because of the undertaking of Muskets, whose real speeds were long debated in the following days. Suffice it to say that the last kilometre of the race was covered in just 41", for an hourly average initially set by some broadcasters in 87 km/h. Then came the correction of the Arab race, which spoke of 83,3 km/h as the highest peak. Probably, the real awareness of what was expressed by Muskets is still unknown and will remain so given the ongoing debates, especially if the data on watts produced were to also be brought into play. However, the certainty remains that the primacy remains at home Italy, given that the previous fastest sprint on record was achieved by jonathan milan, which ad Andora on the occasion of Giro d'Italia 2024 won with a peak of 75,4 km/h. The exploit of Muskets however, it was made easier by the very slight slope (1%) of the road, the springboard to unleash a power capable of covering 12 meters with one pedal stroke: numbers that not even Filippo Gana, just to stay on the subject of bicycle wonders, has probably never managed to produce. A nice contradiction if you think about the proposal that came from various sources, above all the authoritative one of Wout van aert, to reduce the ratios precisely to reduce the speed in the group and the consequent greater risk of falls.

Longo Borghini's statements

  Meanwhile, theUAE Tour Women 2025 it turns blue thanks to Elisa Longo Borghini: for the Piedmontese victory at Jebel Hafeet, the first in the jersey UAE Team ADQ, and a serious mortgage on the entire race. "We can call it a team masterpiece. We had a clear goal: victory and the red jersey. I felt comfortable along the entire climb and when I decided to attack to win, everything went well." Then we move on to the dedications. "This is the first success of our team on home soil and our family lost a friend a few weeks ago. This victory is for him, just as we hope we can dedicate tomorrow's possible success to him."

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