As Patrick Eddy was flying out of the bunch to link up with his Picnic PostNL teammate Oliver Peace in the breakaway on the final stage of Petronas Le Tour de Langkawi in Tangkak, it looked like one of the most undermanned teams on the start line of might have been just about to pull off a master stroke.
The three riders from Picnic PostNL that remained in the race – Matthew Dinham on the comeback trail alongside Eddy and Peace – were on high alert early in Sunday’s stage to make sure none of the riders that could threaten Eddy’s mountains classification jersey could get out the front in the break. Stage 8, after all, had three categorised climbs.
That, after all, had been the aim from the start, given how well the 22-year-old was climbing after his debut Vuelta a España. Stage 8, with its two category 2 climbs within the final 30 kilometres of racing, seemed like a good opportunity for Eddy to have a tilt at the victory. He launched from the bunch with about 20km to go and quickly made inroads as he worked toward his teammate Peace and Nil Gimeno (Equipo Kern Pharma) up the road.
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