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Clasica Jaen 2022 - Alexey Lutsenko produces dominant long-range attack to win inaugural edition

Alexey Lutsenko produced a dominant long-range attack to take victory in a captivating inaugural edition of the Clasica Jaen in southern Spain. The Astana-Qazaqstan rider showed the sort of early-season performance that become something of a trademark, breaking free of a group of favourites for the first time with 45km to go. Ad/> While a chasing group would reel him in, Lutsenko had preserved his legs sufficiently to again up his cadence and power clear of Tim Wellens inside the final 25 kilometres.

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere: I won’t let losers with zero followers get to me

Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl boss Patrick Lefevere says he is scaling back his time on social media as the 2022 season begins to ramp up. Lefevere has been nothing but candid on his various accounts in recent times, but faced criticism last year for making a comparison between women's domestic abuse and rider Sam Bennett's move from Quick-Step to Bora-Hansgrohe. Ad/> But though he has been reducing his time online, he is still airing his forthright views on other channels.

Jan Hirt wins Stage 5 of Tour of Oman to take red jersey, Mark Cavendish remains in green jersey

Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux’s Jan Hirt won Stage 5 of the Tour of Oman, opening up a gap between himself and Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl Team’s Fausto Masnada and taking the red leader’s jersey in the process. Having led solo during the final kilometre, the Czech rider won atop the Green Mountain comfortably, finishing 39 seconds ahead of Arkea-Samsic’s Kevin Vauquelin.