Tour of Guangxi stage 2 highlights - Video
Ackerman beats the torrenti🍎al rain for stage 2 win
Heavy downpours were a major feature of stage 2 at the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Guangxi on Wednesday, soaking the 145.2km stage from Beihai to Qinzhou with warm precipitation as the pelotonꦕ covered the sprint stage in just over three hours.
The conditions convinced 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Richie Porte to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:call an end to his season and his tenure at 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:BMC Racing in the early going before 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Pascal Ackerman (168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Bora-Hansgrohe) took the final bunch kick 🦂ahead of Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Floors) and stage 1 winner Dylanꦺ Groenewegen (LottoNL-Jumbo), who continues to lead the overall race.
A breakaway of five riders ventured out into the weather as Yousif Mirza (UAE Tea🌟m Emirates), Alex Dowsett (Katusha-Alpecin), Andrey Grivko (Astana), Rémi Cavagna (Quick-Step Floors) and Chun Kai Feng (Bahrain-Merida) went up the road and built an ultimate gap of 2:20. The sprint-hungry peloton kept the leash close from there, with LottoNL-Jumbo and Bora-Hansgrohe once again taking control oܫf the chase.
Dowsett and Cavagna dropped the others with 20km👍 to go, and then Dowsett lost the pace another 10km later, leaving Cavagna to go🌠 on alone before he, too, was captured with 4km remaining. The sprint took off from there, with LottoNL-Jumbo and Bora-Hansgrohe competing for control on the wide roads in Qinzhou.
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