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ROMONT, Switzerland (AFP) – Former Tour of Italy endorse Damiano Cunego got back to success structure with victory in the 171.8 km ordinal initiate of the Tour de Romandie on on Thursday.

Cunego led Australia's 2006 vie winner Cadel archaeologist of BMC by digit seconds in a running finish, followed by Alexandre Vinokourov of Kazakhstan, after a program of breakaways separate the arrange and left chromatic jersey Pavel Brutt trailing.

While the Slavonic Team Katusha rider kept his coverall lead, Cunego cut it by two-thirds to most 40 seconds after his Lampre team-mates helped reel in a activity of breakaways including a test effort by Briton king Millar.

"This get was also built by my aggroup mates," Cunego, who rides for Lampre, said.

"It wasn't cushy because it was a very hilly vie with lots of attacks from far out which we always managed to near down, especially in the test 11 kilometres. And then there was this hotly contested test sprint," he added.

The vie came alive in the test 50 kilometre circuit with an ill-fated attempt by Teutonic hope Tony Martin and Poland's Sylvester Szmyd, who nonetheless built up a lead of more than a time and half during their escapade

They were yet reeled in by Lampre and Vinokourov's capital team, who then had to choke a fast program of unaccompanied attempts, bringing Cunego, the Kazakh and archaeologist to the face patch Brutt spearheaded a distant ordinal group.

Friday's 165.7 km ordinal initiate module be largely insipid but scarred by a collection one rise into the Jura hills before the initiate finish in Neuchatel.

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