SAN BENEDETTO DEL TRONTO, Italy (AP) — Spanish cyclist Juan Ayuso secured overall victory in the weeklong Tirreno-Adriatico race on Sunday, with Jonathan Milan winning the bunch sprint to take the final stage of “The Race of the Two Seas.”
Ayuso had taken the lead from Filippo Ganna on Saturday, with a superb solo attack to triumph atop the hardest mountain stage of the race, and he finished safely in the peloton in San Benedetto del Tronto to get his hands on one of cycling’s most distinctive trophies – after finishing runner-up last year.
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Italy's Jonathan Milan, right, wins the seventh stage of the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Italy's Jonathan Milan wins the seventh stage of the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, with second placed Italy's Filippo Ganna, left, and third placed Ita;y's Antonio Tiberi, following the seventh and final stage from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera holds the trophy after winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
The giant trophy of the sea-to-sea race is shaped like Neptune’s three-pronged trident.
Ganna, who had slipped to third the previous day, managed to move up to second after picking up an intermediate time bonus. The Italian ended the race 35 seconds behind Ayuso and just one second ahead of compatriot Antonio Tiberi.
Milan — another Italian — beat Sam Bennett by a wheel in the bunch sprint for the line, with Olav Kooij third.
Paul Magnier crashed just behind them, while fighting for position, bringing down a number of other cyclists.
It was Milan’s second stage win in this year’s Tirreno-Adriatico, matching last year’s tally, where he also won the final stage.
The 147-kilometer stage (91-mile) started in Porto Potenza Picena and included two climbs before finishing with five laps of a flat, 15-kilometer circuit along the seafront.
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Italy's Jonathan Milan, right, wins the seventh stage of the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Italy's Jonathan Milan wins the seventh stage of the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, with second placed Italy's Filippo Ganna, left, and third placed Ita;y's Antonio Tiberi, following the seventh and final stage from Porto Potenza Picena to San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera holds the trophy after winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
Spain's Juan Ayuso Pesquera celebrates winning the Tirreno Adriatico cycling race, in San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy, Sunday, March 16, 2025. (Massimo Paolone/LaPresse via AP)
BOSTON (AP) — A doctor from Lebanon who arrived at the Boston airport was deported over the weekend without explanation, despite having a U.S. visa and a job teaching at Brown University.
A judge had ordered she not be sent back until there was a hearing, but government lawyers said customs officials did not get word in time.
It's the latest deportation of a foreign-born person with a U.S. visa in the past week, after a student at Columbia who led protests of the Gaza war was arrested, and another student's visa was revoked. The Trump administration also transferred hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador even as a federal judge issued an order temporarily barring the deportations.
Dr. Rasha Alawieh, 34, had been granted the visa on March 11 and arrived at Boston Logan International Airport on Thursday, according to a complaint filed on her behalf by a cousin in federal court.
Alawieh, who had worked and lived in Rhode Island previously, was detained at least 36 hours, through Friday, and was going to be sent back to Lebanon, the complaint said. Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist, was to start work at Brown University as an assistant professor of medicine.
U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin issued an order on Friday that an in-person hearing be scheduled Monday, with Alawieh brought to court.
“Whether or not she is in custody of the United States, the court anticipates proceeding with this hearing,” he wrote.
But by Saturday, the cousin filed a motion that customs officials “willfully” disobeyed the order by sending Alawieh back to Lebanon.
Lawyers for the government said in a court filing Monday that U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at Boston Logan International Airport did not receive notice of the order until she “had already departed the United States,” the judge noted. They asked that the petition be dismissed.
The judge put a hearing on her case on hold on Monday, to give Alawieh's lawyers time to prepare.
Stephanie Marzouk, Alawieh’s lawyer, said they were working to ensure the U.S. government follows the rule of law. She said they would not stop fighting to get her back in the U.S., "to see her patients where she should be.”
Alawieh worked at Brown prior to the issuance of her H1B visa, the complaint said. It said she has held fellowships and residencies at three universities in the United States.
A spokesperson for Brown said Alawieh is an employee of Brown Medicine with a clinical appointment to Brown.
Brown Medicine is a not-for-profit medical practice that is its own organization and serves its own patients directly. It is affiliated with Brown University's medical school.
On Monday, a handful of Alawieh’s colleagues stood outside Boston’s federal courthouse to support the doctor.
“She is a one of three transplant nephrologists in the entire state of Rhode Island, which, you know, also serves the parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut,” said Dr. Susie Hu. “Her absence is really detrimental to our program.”
Hu added transplant nephrology is a “highly specialized field” and filling Alawieh’s position will likely be very difficult.
Dr. Douglas Shemin, who said he hired Alawieh at Brown Medicine, called her an “outstanding” clinician, physician and teacher who eagerly put in long hours without complaining.
“She has an important fountain of knowledge that not every has,” he said.
Brown Medicine currently has roughly 300 to 400 patients waiting for kidney transplants, according to Shemin. Each one needs to regularly evaluated, which now must be done by just two doctors.
U.S. Rep. Gabe Amo of Rhode Island, a Democrat, said in a statement over the weekend that is "committed to getting answers from the Department of Homeland Security to provide Dr. Alawieh, her family, her colleagues, and our community the clarity we all deserve.”
A rally was planned to support her Monday night at the Rhode Island statehouse.
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This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of the doctor's last name throughout. Her name is Rasha Alawieh, not Rasha Alawiech.
People walk past the the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston, Monday, March 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Attorney Stephanie Marzouk, who represents deported Brown University Dr. Rasha Alawieh, speaks to reporters outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
FILE - Pedestrians make their way past a building housing the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Jan. 30, 2019, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Jennifer McDermott, File)
