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Van Aert attacked with 88km to go. Van der Poel dropped him just 14km later. Evenepoel went out the back with 60km left as Isaac del Toro turned the screw. Neither Belgian had a rival tactic to blame — Van Aert had just won Paris-Roubaix and the Vuelta a España green jersey weeks earlier, and this time his legs simply stopped.
«I rode a good race, but the lights went out 4 or 5 laps from the end», Van Aert said. «I'm bummed about it, but there wasn't any more in it.» Evenepoel's own teammates, Thibau Nys and Gianni Vermeersch, told reporters after abandoning that he wasn't feeling his best. Both riders got two counter-moves in on the way back, but neither had the power to matter — Evenepoel finished 12th, 25 seconds off Brandon McNulty's winning solo move.
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