Steve Cummings is making a habit of these late attacks to win bike races, with his latest effort seeing him surge away from the peloton in the final kilometre of the Tour of the Basque Country stage three.
The Brit, riding for Dimension Data, pulled off similar stunts with similar results on stage 14 of the 2015 Tour de France and stage four of the 2016 Tirreno-Adriatico, and he boosted his WorldTour palmares further in Lesaka.
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