Julian Alaphilippe won in the second stage of the Tour of the Basque Country. The french cyclist He disrupted the plans of the cyclists who were on the run and ended up crossing the finish line first on Tuesday.
It was a day in which cyclists traveled between the towns of Leitza and Viana on more than 200 kilometers of travel. There were several mountain awards that did not prevent one of those chosen for today’s victory from doing so with solvency.
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Ibon Ruiz from Kern Pharma looked like they had the best chance of taking the win on Tuesday. He commanded the breakout of the day and was the only one of the escapees to go out alone during the last kilometers.
However, the Quick Step pressed in the auction of the day so that Alaphilippe was the option to win the stage. The march of the Belgian formation gave its results and the road world champion took all the power out of him in the packing.
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Alaphilippe won the final meters with a time of 5:04:35. As for the Colombians, Daniel Martínez climbed a position and got into the ‘top’ 10 of the general classification, 21 seconds behind primoz roglic (Jumbo).
This Wednesday the third stage of the Vuelta al País Vasco 2022 will be run with another day of half mountain. The caravan will go from Laudio to Amurrio with 181 kilometers of road.
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Tour of the Basque Country 2022: how the Colombians were after stage 2
1 Primoz Roglic (Jumbo) 5:14:23
2 Remvo Evenepoel (Quick Step) at 0:05
3 Remi Cavagna (Quick Step) at 0:16
4 Geraint Thomas (Ineos) at 0:18
5 Adam Yates (Ineos) at 0:18
10 Daniel Martinez (Ineos) at 0:21
37 Rigoberto Uran (EF) at 0:40
49 Sergio Higuita (Bora) at 0:45
