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How Neilson Powless Ended a US Classics Drought at San Sebastián

How Neilson Powless Ended a US Classics Drought at San Sebastián

The American overcame brutal Basque Country conditions to deliver the biggest American one-day result in over a decade

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Aug 03, 2021
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The USA’s Neilson Powless ended a decade-long drought for American riders in one-day Classics by winning this weekend’s Clásica de San Sebastián, the extremely difficult and historically prestigious one-day classic races on the calendar. Powless won Spain’s biggest one-day race in a three-up sprint ahead of Slovenia’s Matej Mohorič and Denmark’s Mikkel …

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