No significant changes in the ranking after the first road stage of the week.
Stage 2 of “The Race of the Two Seas” was a slow one, due to the headwind and the small breakaway that wasn’t dangerous enough to make the peloton push hard behind in order to bring it back. Despite this, crashes still happened, Pepijn Reinderink being involved in one of these with around 40 kilometers to go.
The man who animated Strade Bianche from the breakaway last Saturday was immediately assessed by the doctors and could continue the race, eventually rejoining the peloton, who with ten kilometers to go faced another crash. Fortunately, none of our riders hit the ground this time, as the bunch increased the pace in anticipation of the finish in Follonica, where Tirreno-Adriatico returned for the third consecutive year.
It was a hectic mass gallop in the end, won by Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek), while Paul Magnier avoided a crash and remained on his bike as one rider touched him with one kilometer to go, just as he was navigating through the field. In the general classification, Mattia Cattaneo continues to be seventh ahead of the hilly stage to Colfiorito.
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