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Tour de France 2010: Stage 2

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Stage two of the Tour de France takes us through Belgium, and those shorꦐt but steep climbs that are so popular with the Spring Classics riders.&nꦰbsp; Will everyone stay upright today, or will they all hit the pavement again, like in stage one?

Hello 🙈and welcome ba👍ck to the Tour de Crash! Oops, let's make that the Tour de France. The biggest news is that we have climbs today! Six ranked climbs, all in roughly the last half of the 201 kms. It should be another exciting day today.

We hear that all 195 riders have signed in today, which doesn't make much sense.  Adam Hansen of HTC-Columbia is an iron man, as he proved by finishing yesterday🌌, but surely they wouldn't let him start today with a broken sternum, collar bone and ri♔bs?

Today starts our with a 10km long neutralized stage, so nothing will happen until ✅the "real" start at half past.   Think we will see anothe successful breakaway right from the start, like yesterday?

It looks like the weather is finally cooperating, for just about the first time all 𝐆year. Our forecast today is for sunshine and 23° Celsius, whicꦓh sounds absolutely wonderful!

Hansen did not start today𝕴, of course.  We wish him a speed🧜y recovery!

Let's take our usual daily look at who is leading which ranking. No change yesterday in the Top Ten GC:
1 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team Saxo Bank 5:19:38
2 Tony Martin (Ger) Team HTC - Columbia 0:00:10
3 David Millar (GBr) Garmin - Transitions 0:00:20
4 Lance Armstrong (USA) Team Radioshack 0:00:22
5 Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:00:23
6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana 0:00:27
7 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions 0:00:28
8 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack
9 Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Professional Cycling Team 0:00:32
0 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Milram 0:00:35
 

There was a change in the green jersey, though. Alessandro Petacchi of Lampre is leading things there now, ahead of Mark Renshaw 𝐆(HTC-Columbia) and Thor Hushovd (Cervelo).

The race has officially started now.  By the way, they were ಞfive minutes late.

195km remaining from 201km

Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) is still best young rider, leading Geraint Thomas and Edvald Boasson Hage🅷n, both Team Sky, in that ranking.

That group was cau♒ght, and now Sylvain Chavanel is trying to get away.  🍨He has 10 seconds on the Saxo Bank-led peloton at the moment.

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Team RadioShack still leads th෴e team ranking, with HTC-Colum🐻bia and Garmin-Transitions quite close behind them.

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For those of you playing our Easton-Cyclingnews Wheelset a Day Giveaway during the Tour de France, here is your trivia q🔯uestion for the day: Who has the greatest number of To🐬ur podiums ever?

Climbs! We have climbs today! Ranked climbs! Not real big ones, to be sure, but 🔴then again, we are in Belgium, you know. And✃ here they are:

Who do you blame for crashes in the finale like we saw yesterday? Cycling legend Eddy Merckx knows where to lay the blame. “It's part of the job. Especially in the beginning o🍨f a Grand Tour You can not blame the organisation. A straight line is 1800 meters long enough anyway, right? It is the riders themselves who bear the blame. If you do not want to brake and if you are not afraid to go for an opponent who is faster, the do not be afraid of the crash,” he told the Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.

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The scanners were active again yesterday, busily checking bikes f⛎or batteries or engines. They didn't find any in the bikes of Alessandro Petacchi, Tyler Farrar, Kanstantsin Sivtsov, Danilo Hondo and💝 Mirco Lorenzetto.

Yesterday's escape was engineered by Rabo💞bank's Lars Boom, who said “it is very beautiful to get away for a day in your own country and lead the race. … The public was again very numerous and very enthusiastic, even in Belgium. Everywhere we were loudly encouraged. It is wonderful to ride through it.”

Michael Barry of Team Sky is finally making his Tour debut, and his assign🐲ment yesterday was to baby-sit captain Bradley Wiggins.

Did we say something about sunshine?  Silly us!  THere were showers this ꦑmorning in Brussels, and it is raining now in Spa.  At least it is at the moment dry where the riders are.

Maarten Wynants wasn't too excited about how the stage went yesterday.🍌 was he?

Milram's Fabian Wegmann has had problems with his back for a year now, and thought he had it healed. So of course he got cau꧑ght in the mass crash yesterday “an๊d now my back is really sore.”

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One sprinter who would dearly have loved to have been 🌠in at the finish yesterday is Tom Boonen.  The QuickStep rider isn't in the race this year, though, due to a bum knee. 

Oscar Freire of Rabobank went down in the first of the crashes in the finale. “ꦚIt's a bit painful, but I think it's not too bad,” he said, more upset ab🎃out the lost chance than anything else. “I felt very good and was in a good position, but it was suddenly over. But that's cycling.”

L𒉰et's give a nice round of welcoming applause to Cyclinngews' newest, Barry Ryan.  He is going to step in for a short spell on live report.  This is his maiden effort, so be nice to him, folks!

Hi there, the break is appro🦋aching the feed, still with 4-10 over the peloton

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Jerome Pineau is first o🎃ver the climb, outsprinting Matthew Lloyd and Rein Taaramae

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Cervelo lead🎃ing the peloton over the climb, 3:37 behind

Petacchi is at the rear of the peloton♛, removing his undervest. He's having a real struggle to get t🦂he green jersey back on over his head. Don't try this at home kids

Good to see Sylvain Chavanel off the🧸 front of the bunch again so soon after his f♑racturing his skull in that horrible crash at Liege-Bastogne-Liege.

Thanks, Barry.  Susan back again.

Cancellara is quite far back at the moment, like behind the team cars.  But we doubt that it will take long for him to get back🎐 to the peloton.

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There are a number of riders trailing the peloton, either🥃 individually or in small groups.  No🎃 one seems to really have been dropped, though.

Cancellara finally catches up again.

The le𝐆ading group passes a field of grazing cows, who show themselves not at all impressed by the spectacle of the Tour de🧜 France.

The sky is very defꦇinitely not blue ൩any more.  We think we see a few raindrops as well, but are trying to pretend we don't.

Two Astana riders 🍬are dang🔯ling at the end of the field.  They seem to be waiting for someone.....

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The leaders start up the next climb of the day.

Oscar Freire of Rabobank went down in the first of the crashes in the finale.  “It's a bit painful, but I think it's not too bad,” he said, more upset about the lost chance than anything else.  “I felt very good and was in a good p💝osition, but it was suddenly over.  But that's cycling.”

We have movement in the break group. Arꩲe they trying to get away, or just to g✅et the mountain points?

71km remaining from 201km

Hey, look out!  🌄Someone just waved a flag into the field, and a few riders had to dodge or ride through it.

Another field of cows, who pay a bit more attentio🧜n.

The gap had crept under thr🙈ee minutes, but now it is just over that mark, 3:05💧.

Daniel Navarro drops back to the Astana car and load🎀s up on water bottles.

By the way, Pinea༒u won the 🍌mountain ranking ahead of Taaramae and Lloyd.

The gap has just dropped a l🤪ot.  Somehow we doubt aht all this can be right.  It is now 2:27.

The leaders are now🐈 on their way up the next climb.

We have a crash.  Two rides 𓆏have gone done. A Caisse d'Epargne rider popped right back up and got on his way, and a BBox rider had to wrestle his bike back into condition before he could do the same.

A ghost!  Eek!

Less thanꦬ a km to the top of the next climb🦄, and this road is defnitely wet.

Once again there is a sprint for the mountain poin🀅ts.

And once again♐ it is Pineau ahead of Taaramae and Lloyd.

A Liquigas rider pulls out his stage map and tries to figure out where he i🍸s. 

Oops🌺, there are raindrops.  For sure, nཧow. Not good.

This weather really does not look nice.  It is very dark, the road is ver🌱y wet, and there꧙ is rain coming down.

Pineau has fallen back to the team car and seems to💛 have an issue with his right shoe.

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Oops, another crash.  We recognize Martin Elinger, Silak, Dean, who is slow gett♉ing up.  We have riders down on both sides of the road.

A Lotto rider seems to be injurܫed, we understand is is Mickael Delage.

He has facial injuries and is bleeding.

That spr📖ing the peloton.  A bunch of people will have to scurry to catch up now.

There is only a small group now, maybe 30 riders around the yellow jersey?  🥃We see another large group coming up behind them.  The gap is down to 1:47.

We see Armstrong🌟 and Petacchi together in a gr🎐oup, but not sure which one.

Apparಞently Delage was the ♍only injured in that crash.  We still do not know if he has abandoned or continued.

So of course we now hear that he was forced to abandon.  Meanwhile the rain is gettin⛎g heavier, and the gap is getting smaller, down to 1:33.

Chavanel see♍ms to have been dropped from the lead group.  Doesn't make that much difference, the gap is still 🌠falling so they will all be caught soon.

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Saxo Bank is at the head of the peloton and they have turned up the speed🌠.  The field is stretched out single file now.

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Only 49 seconds left for the break.

It is up the next climb for the leading group.

Thor Hushovd managed to avoid the crashes and sprint for the victory in Brussels.  The big Norwegian brought in a third place finish for Cervelo TestTeam. 

The weather seems to have improved ever so sಞlightly.  The road is not wet and it doesn't appear to be raining at the moment.

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Once again the sprint 🔯for the mountain points.  And the points go to Pineau, who ought to have the KOM jersey secured now.  This time second was Taaramae and third was Burghardt.

A꧃ Katusha rider has punctured, and keeps on going until he can get help.

The lead group has sort of split up, every man for🍌 himself now.  They are racing along, trying to stay away.

Roelandts lead🏅s now, over the exploded lead group.

Chavanel h꧟as not fallen out of the lead group, as we had thought, but has moved up to join Roelandts in the lead. And in fact takes꧅ up ahead of the Belgian.

Th𒀰e weather was getting better? Who on earth said that?😼  It is raining again....

No surprise to see Mark Cavendish falling off t𒈔he back of the field, but it is surprising to see Gerald Ciolek (Milram) back there with him.

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Astana moves to the head of the peloton.

Now an Euskaltel rider attacks.

More and more rain....

Another crash.  Andy Schleck has🐓 gone done and looks 🀅to be injured.  He has a teammate's bike but is gong very slowly.

A number of riders have gone down.  We see Cancellara alone, but don't at the moment know who ꧅is where.

Petacchi also appears to be injured.

Handfuls of rider are dribbling along.  Everyon🌟e is going slowly, hoping to gather the troops again.

Schleck is going but does not look good.

We still don't know what happened...

There is a mjaor discussion going on at the head of the first chase 💯grouඣp.  Vande Velde also went down, we think, when we see his kit.

𓆉Schleck seems to be doing 🔯a bit better now.  Hopefully it was the shock that got to him.  He is pretty far back, though.

Now he gets a bike adjustment♏. Schleck  is now 4:18 back.

The two leaders have built up a 1:38 leadꦿ now. 

At least the sun has come out agian!

We see Tony Martin, Andeas Klöden in the Cancellara group.  Don't kn♈ow if Armstrong is in it too.

No, he is not. 🍬; We see him moving up in a group, with 4 teammates.  It llooks like he went down, too.  Contador is also in his group.

Schleck is now with two teammates, moving on up.

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 Apparentl💧y Contador had toꦇ stop and get a new bike, so he has fallen even further back.

Chavanel has pi🌼cked up the pace, a🌼nd Roelandts can't match him.

18km remaining from 201km

Chavanel chugs along on the wet road,💙 ಞlooking like he will take things today.

The Armstrong group is about to catꩵch the Cancellara grou🐭p.

Jens Voigt is riding like a 💙madman to bring the Schleck brothers back up.

T♋oo much for Voigt -- he has to fall back. Andy Schleck leads now, looking rather stu꧋nned.

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The ﷺSchleck group is in the team cars now.  Well, not literal✤ly!

This sta♛ge win will give Chavanel the yellow jersey!

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It's the 🐼last climb now for Chavanel, and for the others, too, of course.

Chavanel wins the final mountain ranking.

He is zipping rigꦇht along, as compared to the field, which is not.

Cancellara and Marti🅠n lead the field, with Armstrong right behind 🍒them.

10km remaining from 201km

What an accomplishment for Chavanel, who crashed with a team car at Liege-Bastogn🌞e-Liege and fractured his skull.

Andy Schleck is at the end of t꧋he field and ha🐎s to be careful to hang on and not be dropped.

5km remaining from 201km

The peloton is 🦩🐽riding together as a group.  No one wants to take any more chances today.

Monfort is still between Chavanel and the field.

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two km and 3:12 for Chavanel.

He is up out oꦛf the saddle, with his eye firmly on his goal.

Will we see a sprint from the field?  There will still be valuable points to be picked 🗹up.

The last km for Chavanel.

He zips his jersey and pepares to ce🉐lebrate.  He clutches his charm and kisses it, happy as can be as he crosses the line.

W🍎hat a day for Chavanel!  To come back from a fracatured skull to win a stage and take over the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

 Cancellara goes to th🅠e race 📖jury car for a word.

Cancellara is now back up at the head of things as the group nea༒r the finish.

There will be no sprint at the finish line.

Oops someone wantedཧ to✅, and Cancellara shook his finger at them.

The peloton is spread across the road, and will cross the finish line𒈔 that 💛way.

Looks like a AG2R rider pu🅺lled🐬 forward at the last second to take second place.  And earned himself a fussing-at from Cancellara.

A 🅠number of big hugs for Chavanel from his teammates.

Also Eddy🐲 Merckx gives the young Frenchman a hug in ꧂congratulation.

“I don't know what to say to be honest, it's the happieꦯst day of my career. I had a difficult sta🌳rt to the season,” Chavanel said.  “It was a hugely difficult stage, but I was able to do something - and obviously it's great.”

Chavanel has moved into the overall lead, with Cancellara💎 second and Martln third.

There seems to be some talk of neutralising the stage.  Stay tuned, we will let you know what is happe🤪ning!

Rides are stil now coming in, over 13 minutes down! ꦏ Petacchi is in this group.

That was it - and not at all what we expected.  Let's꧃ just hope that there were no more injuries today.  Thanks for joining us and be sure to read long again tomorrow.

Stage:

1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Quick Step 4:40:48
2 Maxime Bouet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:56
3 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Team Milram
4 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Team Katusha
5 Christian Knees (Ger) Team Milram
6 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
7 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
8 Linus Gerdemann (Ger) Team Milram
9 Matthieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française des Jeux
10 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Team HTC - Columbia

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