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Eneco Tour 2013: Stage 2

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💙Januaꦫry 1 - August 18, Ardooie, Netherlands, Road - WorldTour

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Welcome 🔴back to the Eneco Tour, 176.9 km from Ardooie to Vorst.

The race is underway again, and this will be an int𝄹eresting 🍰stage -- with climbs!

Once again we had an early group get away. Gediminas Bagdonas, Mathew Hayman, Laurens Devreese andTim Declercq were the lucky ones🥃 todayܫ, and have built up a large lead.

That 💧is: Gediminas Bagdonas (AG2R), Mathew Hayman (Sky), L𒆙aurens Devreese and Tim Declercq (both Topsport Vlaanderen).

M♚arcus Burghardt of BMC diཧd not start today, due to a fever. And Alex Dowsett (Movistar) had to abandon after injuring one or both wrists in a crash earlier today.

With 93 km to go, the gap is 6 minutes.

There are ๊six climbs along the way today, p🌠lus a very steep uphill finish.

Our top five in GC:

It is a♕nother one of those strange bright sunshine-dark clouds days. At least the temperatures are a bit cooler than they have been the last few weeks.

72km remaining from 176km

71km remaining from 176km

No surprise, Renshaw also leads the points ranking:

1     Mark Renshaw (Aus) Belkin Pro Cycling     30      pts
2     André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol     25      
3     Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) RadioShack Leopard     22      
4     Taylor Phinney (USA) BMC Racing Team     20      
5     Maximiliano Ariel Richeze (Arg) Lampre-Merida     19      
 

65km remaining from 176km

The peloton has picked up its speed agai🐠n, and we see a Lotto rider and a Belkin rider at the head of it, followed by much of Sky.

An Argos r♚ider has🉐 punctured, but has received help and is going again.

De Vreese was also in the breakꦓ group yesterday, and took the lead in the combativity classification.

There was a 🌃moment of silence this morning before the stage started, in honour of the Netherlands' Prince Friso, who died yesterday.

Nick Nuyens of Garmin-Sharp is missing a number. H🐽is race number is pinned on the left side, but nothing there on the right side.

Speaking of Prince Friso's death, the D𝓡utch Team Belkiꦗn is wearing a black mourning band in his honour.

We are having a lot of punctures at the moment, there must be some problem with th♏e road here. The latest victim is Tyler Ferrar of Garmin-Sharp.

Belkin leads in the team ranking.

1     Belkin Pro Cycling Team     12:03:46      
2     Ag2R La Mondiale     0:00:02      
3     BMC Racing Team            
4     Movistar Team            
5   𒁏;  Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cyclinꩵg Team

5km remaining from 176km

Sylvain Chavanel of OPQS joins tꦏhe list of those who have punctured.

Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) took an unusual step: he 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:underwent a lie detector test to prove he is not doping.

Wiggins once again hanging o🦹ut at the ver♔y back of the peloton.

44km remaining from 176km

Nuyens back at the Garmin team car -- perhaps asking abo🦂ut his lost race number?

Speaking of Nuyens, he is riding this race168澳洲5最新开奖结果: in♚ preparation for the Vuelta a Espana. He is still struggling to come back from a fracture hip he suffered in ꦫJune 2012.

38km remaining from 176km

Theo Bos was supposed to win teh sprint yesterday, but his teammate Renshaw took the win instead. Bos consoles himself by ꦺdropping back to the team car for a drink.

Hayman was dropped by the lead group momentarily. But now he i🌌s back with them.

Greipel now at the en🍨d of the long, drawn-out field.

🌸And yet another puncture. This time it is Demare of FDJ. A front tyre, for a change.

With 32 km to go the gap is at 3.43. At this point it🥂 could go either way.

Alessandro Petacchi has been around a long time and has a lot of impressive wins to his name. but he is 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:as excited as a kid on the fi♐rst day of school, h🦹e says, making his comeback here with OPQS after a short retir﷽ement.

The field has just passed the Waterloo Monumen💃t. It is in honour of the battle in which Napoleon was def༺eated, not in honour of the ABBA song.

25km remaining from 176km

One of the Belkin riders got caught on teh wron🦂g side of a large traffic island. So he jumped up on it and rode along until he cou♌ld join the peloton again.

Lotto had been doing much of the lead work, but the other teams seem to ha♊ve realized that it just isn't working. Ti🔯me for someone else to move in to the head of things.

with 21 km to go, the g💝ap is still 2:46. Hard to make the call as to whether they will stay away to the end ♈or not.

De Vreese and Hayman sprint for the intermediate sprin꧒t. Bagdonas may be droped.

Bernie Eisel has crashed and done damage to his bike. Th🎃at takes him out of the picture for the end of this stage.

We have a climb here, and S🅠teegmans (OPQS)🎐 attacks.

An FDJ rider joins hm, and now🔯 they are caught by the fie♏ld anyway.

That looks like it may have kick-started the peloton. The𝓰 pace is notably higher now and the gap is 1:59 with 18km to go.

The pace is high enough that th firဣst riders are being dropped off the back.

He is joined by Matti Breschel of Saxo-Tinkov.

The duo already has 12 seconds on the peloton.

Boucher of FDJ crashed into the advertisi𒉰ng banner on the side oওf the road. He is ok. The banner is not.

Bagdonas has been dropped on anot🐎her of those short but stee♛p climbs.

De Vree꧙se and Declercq do their best to drop Hayman as well, but in response, he takes off on his own.

14km to go and 𝔉the peloton is tearing a🏅part. Hayman still has a minimal lead over the two Topsport Vlaanderen riders.

The general rule of thumb is 10 km - 1 minute. So what 🐽do we have now? With 10 km to go, the gap is 1:04.

The two Topsport riders have now caught Hayman.

Orica GreenEdge has taken over the chase. The gap is under ༒a minute and the cars between the two groups are being tཧaken out.

🌼And at the end of the field -- again -- is Wiggins.

Peter Weening🍸 is putting up a torrid pace at the head of the chasing field.

Puncture for Lastras (Movistar)

Lots of Garmin jerseys visible near the front൩ as well. In fact, practically the whole team is at the 🃏head of the field.

With 5 km to go, the gap is only 23 seconds.

Argos-Shimano moves up near Garmin. This would definitely be a finish fo♉r Degenkolb.

The leaders go under the 4km banner, with the peloton breathing down their n♋ecks.

That's it, the break is over.

Renಌshaw with a puncture. Will the three🌼 km rule apply here?

Even if he gets the same time it seems highly un🦂l🌳ikely he could defend his lead.

And the field flies  up the final climb.

About six riders have a tiny gඣ🐠ap. Now caught. Gilbert is near the front!

Ferrar on Gilbert's rear wheel. Gilbert tries to sprint, but Arnaud Demare sprints past him eas♛ily to take the win for FdJ.

Gilbert takes second, with Farrar third.

Renshaw comes in some two minutes down.

Demare is only 21 years old and in his second season, but has a very impressive record. He now has eight wins this season,꧑ including the overall title at the Four Days of Dunkirk.

Today's top ten, all with the same time:

We are still waiting on the GC.

We are hearing that Demare has taken🐓 over the GC lead, but are waiting for confir💮mation.

Still awaiting confirmation but we hear that Demare leads🧸 by three seconds over Renshaw in second, with Gilbert third at 4 seconds.

Rensha🎀w gets the same time as the peloton, since he was within the 3 km region. But Demare still takes over the lead.

And here at last, the new GC:

That's it for today. Please be sure to read along again tomorro🐲w!

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