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Modern Adventure's year one: five wins, a Roubaix debut, and a crash
Modern Adventure Pro Cycling closed its debut European season at Paris-Tours on Sunday, finishing with five wins and a wildcard start at Paris-Roubaix. The season's on-paper success sits next to its hardest fact: 19-year-old Ezra Caudell suffered severe head and chest injuries in a crash at the Philadelphia Cycling Classic in August, and was released from hospital to begin rehabilitation this month.
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The wins came across the calendar — Samuel Flórez at the Tour of the Gila in May, Ben Oliver taking two stages and the overall at Tour de Wallonie against WorldTour opposition in June, and Riley Pickrell's stage win at the Tour de Langkawi in October. The Paris-Roubaix wildcard was rare for a first-year team, earned after a solid spring of breakaways and podiums, even though only one rider on the roster had previously started the race. None of that offsets what happened to Caudell on August 30: head and chest injuries serious enough to keep him hospitalized for over a month before his October 6 discharge into rehab. Modern Adventure still sits 35th in the UCI standings, 14th of 16 ProTeams, heading into the final weekend — a reminder that the results and the cost arrived in the same season.
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