De Pauw pounces as McConvey bid for yellow just falls short
After an earlier escape had been reeled in with 10k to go, De Pauw jumped clear of the peloton on a slight incline with five kilometres to go.
With both riders just needing a single second to take over the race leadership, second-placed Belfast man Connor McConvey of the Synergy Baku team and Danish rider Ramsus Guldhammer were first to react and with four kilometres remaining the trio had eked out a handful of seconds on the chasing pack.
