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1 Dani Martínez wins on Puy Mary

hat was typical Dani. He pops up some days and does phenomenal rides. We didn’t really expect it from him that day because he’d been a little bit down after his crash. That day, on the first climb coming out of Clermont Ferrand I saw Dani pop out of the bunch at the speed of a motorbike, going past big groups. Then he and Hugh Carthy got into the move and we had the guys we knew could win the stage. When he was chasing Max Schachmann, at the base of the final climb, Lennard Kämna tried attacking, but Dani closed it so easily

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