Short (92km) last stage of the 5-day Tour of Valencia, ending in Valencia city. Second win of the week for Fabio Jakobsen, the Dutch rider who suffered appalling injuries to his face when fellow-countryman, Dylan Groenewegen, blatantly ran him into the barriers during a mass sprint finish in the Tour of Poland in 2020. He’s clearly making an impressive comeback, beating some top sprinters like Viviani, Kristoff and Trentin to the line. Coincidentally, Groenewegen also won two stages in the almost concurrent Saudi Tour. Some day soon they will presumably meet again …
Footnote: these photos were grabbed from TV coverage and procyclingstats.com as my own shots of the finish are – annoyingly – still stuck in the camera, but I thought it worth posting a rather thin first version, if only for the positive Jakobsen story.
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