Tour de France 2022 LIVE: Stage 2 result as Fabio Jakobsen wins ahead of Wout van Aert in sprint finish
The 2022 Tour de France continues today with a 202.5km ride from Roskilde to Nyborg
The Tour de France resumed for Stage 2 today after Yves Lampaert claimed the first Yellow Jersey in the opening time trial in Copenhagen. On a rain soaked circuit yesterday, the Belgian raced to a surprise win beating out defending champion Tadej Pogacar as well as compatriot Wout van Aert after taking a seriously impresssive time of 15 minutes and 17 seconds to complete the 13km course.
Despite the build-up beforehand the wind hardly played a part in a rather sedate Stage 2. A long trek along the Danish coastline started in the town of Roskilde and saw an early breakaway led by Magnus Cort Nielsen as the peloton hit the countryside. This foursome, also featuring Pierre Rolland, Cyril Barthe and Sven Erik Bystrom, stormed out in front and reached the first of three category-four climbs. Nielsen and Bystrom fended off a challenge from the others and raced to the line with Nielsen taking the victory and the first of his three King of the Mountains points. He added two more at the next hills to end the day with the polka-dot jersey and the title.
There was an early preview to the sprint finish as an intermediate sprint 75km from the end was won by Caleb Ewan but the Austrian didn’t feature in the climactic battle. The Great Belt Bridge lived up to it’s majesty but failed to provide the expected drama although Yellow Jersey holder Yves Lampaert crashed on the bridge and had to recover his position. He did, and led the way around the final corner as part of the lead train for Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl teammate Fabio Jakobsen.
The stage concluded with a sprint to the line. Mads Pedersen set off with 400m to go and was hauled in by Wout van Aert but Jakobsen managed to win a battle against Peter Sagan to nip around the outside and claim the victory.
Relive all the action from Stage 2 of the Tour de France:
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
The pelaton is travelling at a fair lick now. Close to 45 mph with 61 km to go.
Here’s a look at Caleb Owen’s ‘win’ in the intermediate sprint earlier on. He’ll no doubt be giving it a go at the end of this race to try and take the stage as well.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
69 km to go.
The next big obstacle will be the big bridge which should arrive in about 50km time or around 20km from the finish line. The gap to the breakaway pairing is now only 33 seconds.
There are some 30km/h winds over the bridge, that should be strong enough to cause splits in the pelaton. Whether it’s blowing in the right direction is another matter.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
The German national champion, Nils Politt (Bora-Hansgrohe) just stopped briefly before the sprint to take a bike change, but he looked quite relaxed about should soon get back into the peloton.
Of course Caleb Ewan only takes third place in the official intermediate sprint results as Sven Erik Bystrom and Magnus Cort completed the zone before him from the breakaway group.
Bystrom took the maximum 20 points, Cort 17 and Ewan 15. Wout van Aert and Peter Sagan were left with 13 and 11 points respectively for finishing fourth and fifth.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
The big names mostly get involved. Wout van Aert, Caleb Ewan, Fabio Jakobsen all push through to the front with Ewan coming off the shoulder of Van Aert to take the win!
That’s a signal of intent for the green jersey.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
It is very evident that the intermediate is sprint coming up and points are in play.
There is only 46 seconds between the break and the pelaton with about a kilometre to go before the sprint.
Peter Sagan’s men have taken to the front of the pack.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
We’re closely approaching the next part of this stage. The mountains are over, the intermediate sprint is next followed by the bridge and the finish.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl have positioned themselves near the front of the pelaton as expected before the stage kicked off.
UAE Team Emirates are up their too and Peter Sagan of Team TotalEnergies is pushing to the front as well.
There’s a few kilometres before to go before the intermediate sprint.
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
Tour de France 2022: Stage 2
With 90km to go Dan Lloyd, on commentary for Eurosport, observed that the front two of Cort and Bystrom will try to push on in the hope that there will be some disruption in the crosswinds later which could help them out.
Chances are it’ll be a sprint finish, but anything could happen with these narrow roads and winds. It’s a deliberate ploy from the race organisers to try and set up some excitement.
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