Classic Brugge-De Panne 2025, Molano wins ahead of Milan. The story of the race

Rome, March 26, 2025 - The campaign week in Belgium, which will culminate on Sunday in the Ghent-Wevelgem 2025, opens with the Classic Brugge-De Panne 2025, which saw the success of Juan Sebastián Molano against jonathan milan in a race studded with falls.

The race

For the Colombian, a quick sprint on the returning Friulian, who, in addition to the damage, receives the mockery of a yellow card due to contact with alexander kristoff which however does not cancel out the second place: in third place it is placed Madis Mihkels in a sprint with several luxury absentees. In the last very troubled 5 km, in fact, they end up on the asphalt among others Tim Merlier, Olav Kooij, Arnaud De Lie e Arnaud Demare, whose conditions will obviously have to be verified in view of the next races. Regardless of the rivals still standing, it's still a party molano, which already equals the number of victories (one) achieved in a 2024 anything but memorable, confirming that the battleship UAE Team Emirates-XRG has his weapons to play even in the sprints. The '94 class was also present at the Giro d'Italia 2024, where in some stages he curiously saw an overflowing Tadej pogacar try to give him a sprint, even managing to place himself: the Emirati team's plans for the Corsa pink of this year. In the meantime, molano sends a loud and clear message and does so just over a month after the terrible fall that took him away fromUAE Tour 2025At the time, the Colombian, busy drinking from his water bottle, did not notice a cat's eye on the road and fell heavily on his left, also raising fears of a fractured ankle: instead, he got away with bruises and superficial wounds and, above all, with a good lesson on the importance of always having at least one hand fixed on the handlebars.

Kristoff retiring at the end of 2025?

Today, behind the scenes molano, Milan e Kristoff they came into contact, but the first was not downgraded (and only cautioned) because the foul deemed such by the jury occurred outside the sprint. Moving on to the Volta a Catalunya 2025, the situation is more worrying instead Caden Groves, cautioned for a shoulder charge on another runner for the second time this season (the first for having rejoiced at the victory of Jasper Phillipsen to the Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne 2025) and, to be precise, in less than a month: in the event of a further yellow, therefore, the Australian will be disqualified from the current match, 7 days of suspension and also 14 days of suspension precisely for the two provisions in 30 daysThe fact is that, regardless of what happened today, the career of Kristoff is approaching its epilogue, as confessed to the microphones of Daniel Benson. "My contract expires this year. I'm almost 38 years and so I'm thinking of ending it here so as not to feel like a burden for the team. This could be my last season in the group, but I'm quite calm about it: I've started to feel like I'd like to do things outside of cycling".

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