Tim Merlier Powers to Back-to-Back Wins with Impressive Late Surge

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Paris-NIce 2025: Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) carries the full chief’s yellow jersey around the end line for victory on degree 2 in Bellegarde(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)A normal view of Tim Merlier of Soudal-QuickStep profitable degree 2 into Bellegarde(Symbol credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Pictures) Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility) rides solo within the breakaway with 30km to move(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)Uno-X Mobility’s Jonas Abrahamsen rides on my own on the entrance of the race as he nears the native circuit(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)Alexandre Delettre of Staff TotalEnergies rides within the polka-dot Mountain Jersey with breakaway partners Joel Nicolau Beltran of Caja Rural-Seguros RGA and Jonas Abrahamsen of Uno-X Mobility(Symbol credit score: Dario Belingheri/Getty Pictures)Alexandre Delettre (TotalEnergies) rides within the climber’s polka-dot jersey within the breakaway(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)The peloton rides at the 183.9km course between Montesson and Bellegarde(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)Lidl-Trek units the tempo in peloton on degree 2(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)The pack of riders cycles with windmills within the background right through the 2d degree of the Paris-Great(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) rides within the yellow chief’s jersey(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)The peloton chases a three-rider breakaway on a cloudy degree 2 (Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)Arkea-B&B Resorts rider Arnaud Démare wears the sprinter’s inexperienced jersey at get started of degree 2 from Montesson (Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)The beginning of degree 2 from Montesson(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)The beginning of degree 2 from Montesson headed to Bellegarde(Symbol credit score: Getty Pictures)

Belgian fastman Tim Merlier (Soudal-QuickStep) made it two out of 2 at Paris-Great on Monday because the race chief adopted his victory on degree 1 with some other bunch dash win on Monday.

On the finish of a quick, flat run around the plains west of Paris, Merlier used to be completely positioned in fourth spot in the back of Mads Pedersen (Lidl-Trek) because the pack blasted up the relatively emerging completing instantly in Belleville.

With 100 metres to move, Merlier used to be already a motorbike period forward of his competitors and he may even sluggish relatively earlier than the road to savour his win forward of Emilién Jeannière (TotalEnergies) and Hugo Web page (Intermarché-Wanty).

Barring Matteo Jorgenson (Visma-Rent a Motorbike) snatching a two-second time bonus on the degree’s one intermediate dash, the GC contenders most commonly targeting saving as a lot power as conceivable previous to Tuesday’s crunch group time trial degree.

In the meantime some sizable crashes in opposition to the again of the bunch noticed a number of riders abandon, together with Australian nationwide champion Luke Durbridge (Jayco-AIUIa).

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