
Neilson Powless started Saturday’s Maryland Cycling Classic as one of the favourites, but a badly timed puncture left the EF Education-EasyPost rider stranded and running with his bike to change his wheel.
Powless, who finished on the podium in both 2022 and 2023, emerged from an active and chaotic race onto the last of six laps of a 28.8km circuit around Baltimore in a leading group of 11 men.