Whatever the name of the one-day race in Hamburg, a ‘yes-no’ game around the Waseberg always marks the course of the final.
In the final segment, the UAE pushed hard Diego Ulissi and Marc Hershey.
Tim Merler stopped, Mads Pedersen gasped and Arnaud De Lay jumped forward with a medium sprint.
It turned out not to be the final step, because the peloton tangled together again.
In that merger, Nels Pollitt, Brandon McNulty, and Yves Lampert took the helm.
The peloton seems to be gobbling them up, but the sprinters seem to have had too few teammates or played too much poker.
McNulty had a gap in the final hectometer, Lampert kept repeating. But Pedersen cornered the attackers at the last moment.
He had not waited for the sprint with an attack under the cloth and was still able to win the victory with his last strength.
Albeit with a bit of luck, because Pedersen quickly put his hands in the air and they regrouped almost in turn.
Pedersen, who actually won the Tour of Denmark yesterday, is finally fourth ahead of Danny van Poppel and Elia Viviani. Lambert and De Lay became sixth and seventh.
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