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In bicycle racing, a breakaway specialist is a rider who is specialized in attacking the race from the start in order to show off their sponsor and to try their luck in winning the stage without having to fight with the whole peloton at the finish line.
The French term for a breakaway specialist is baroudeur or adventurer, which comes from the Arabic, where its meaning is “dynamite”.[1]
- ^ Clemitson, Suze (5 November 2015). "P Is For Peloton: The A-Z Of Cycling". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 July 2017.