Standings after week 2
General classification:
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE)
- Ayuso (🇪🇸 UAE) at 1’13’’
- Tiberi (🇮🇹 Bahrain) at 1’30’’
- Carapaz (🇪🇨 EF) at 1’40’’
- Ciccone (🇮🇹 Lidl-Trek) at 1’41’’
- S. Yates (🇬🇧 Visma) at 1’42’’
- Bernal (🇨🇴 Ineos) at 1’57’’
- McNulty (🇺🇸 UAE) at 1’59’’
- A. Yates (🇬🇧 UAE) at 2’01’’
- Roglitch (🇸🇮 Bora) at 2’25’’
Mountain classification:
- Fortunato (🇮🇹 Astana) 98 pts
- Ayuso (🇪🇸 UAE) 50
- Double (🇬🇧 Jayco) 36
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 32
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) 25
Points classification:
- Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) 153 pts
- Tonelli (🇮🇹 Polti) 59
- Kooij (🇳🇱 Visma) 55
- Van Uden (🇳🇱 Picnic) 50
- Van Aert (🇧🇪 Visma) 43
Intermediary sprints:
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 59 pts
- Van der Hoorn (🇳🇱 Intermarché) 34
- Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) 31
- De Bondt (🇧🇪 Decathlon) 29
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 26
Breakaways:
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 368 km
- Van der Hoorn (🇳🇱 Intermarché) 285
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 278
Redbull KM:
- Tarozzi (🇮🇹 Bardiani) 30 pts
- Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) 23
- Tonellii (🇮🇹 Polti) 19
Teams:
- UAE
- Lidl-Trek at 12’15’’
- Visma at 12’49’
- Ineos, Astana & Bahrain at 15-16 mn
Definitely the good one! Big surprise today, as Asgreen (🇩🇰 EF) was never caught up by the peloton and wins the stage!
Another of the 4 members of the breakaway (the 5th one Meintjes (🇿🇦 Intermarché) chose to drop early from the breakaway – or his director chose for him –: if they had known…), Mirco Maestri (🇮🇹 Polti) was caught near the finish, managed to stay in the first group and sprint to finish 6th!
The breakaway never benefited of a decent gap. 2 minutes top, generally around 1’30’'.
Nobody in the peloton did anything in the main climb, but Ineos accelerated 50 m from the top and did the descent full speed, reducing the gap by 30 seconds. Until it started getting wet. Also, until the first Ineos finally noticed he hadn’t been pulling anyone for a while, as his teammate couldn’t follow and burned himself trying to catch up instead of being sheltered…
In the breakaway, the FDJ rider dropped in an uphill sector.
Then the main event happened: a fall upon the cobbles in a small street. I think, but I am not sure at all, that Pedersen (🇩🇰 Lidl-Trek) and another rider fell first, then behind them Ciccone🇮🇹 (Lidl-Trek) and another teammate. As it was narrow, most of the peloton was blocked, while Visma started (or kept on?) pulling at the front. Pedersen didn’t seem badly hit, but didn’t really attempt to chase; Ciccone was more seriously hurt.
This small front group (which included the isolated pink jersey Del Toro (🇲🇽 UAE) and Carapaz (🇪🇨 EF) was pulled by Visma and Alpecin. They spent all their strength pulling for 20 km, and for a long time were only 15-25 seconds from the breakaway, but they never managed to catch up.
S. Yates (🇬🇧 Visma) becomes 2nd of the GC, as Ayuso (🇪🇸 UAE) was delayed by the crash. Second biggest winner is Carapaz who arrived in the same group and passes 4th before Roglitch (🇸🇮 Bora).
Beside Ciconne, Tiberi (🇮🇹 Bahrain ) is the biggest loser, as he finished 1’44’ behind the Del Toro/Yates group.
Biggest winner in my heart is derek gee!! Jumps 4 places into 6th!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦