Van Avermaet enjoys a double personal victory at Tirreno-Adriatico

Friday, March 13 was always going to be a complicated day for Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), with or without any bad luck. But he ended the day with a double personal victory: he won the uphill sprint in Arezzo at Tirreno-Adriatico and also secured a delay in the Belgian investigation into allegations that he worked with Dr Chris Mertens, who has been accused of giving illegal ozone treatment. The new hearing will now take place on April 16, allowing Van Avermaet to target all the cobbled Classics with BMC.

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Stephen is the most experienced member of the Cyclingnews team, having reported on professional cycling since 1994. He has been Head of News at Cyclingnews since 2022, before which he held the position of European editor since 2012 and previously worked for Reuters, Shift Active Media, and CyclingWeekly, among other publications.