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Jonathan Milan took his third win of 2026 in the Fujairah bunch sprint, beating Ethan Vernon and Matteo Milan after the break was caught in the final 300 metres. A Lidl-Trek-perfect lead-out on a stage where Pogačar's absence opened the sprint card.
182 km, lumpy mid-section, flat run into Fujairah. The day's break was caught with about 300 m to go; Lidl-Trek's lead-out for Milan was textbook.
Time-bonus shuffling on sprint stages; Evenepoel keeps the overall.
Third sprint win of the season. Milan's role at Lidl-Trek for 2026 — pure sprinter on the team's calendar around Pedersen's Classics block — getting expressed exactly where the calendar puts him.