Schulze unstoppable on stage 2

German Andre Schulze from PSK Whirlpool Author won his second consecutive stage of Course de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques to extend his overall lead in the 5-day race to 6 seconds on Krzysztof Jezowski over CCC Polsat Polkowice.

The former Polish champion took second and Daniel Schorn (Team NetAPP) was third. On Wednesday Schulze won the afternoon's semi-stage and claimed the leader's jersey.

In the final kilometers it was CCC Polsat Polkowice who set up the pace for their sprinter, Jezowski, but for the second time in a row he was beaten by Schulze. "Andre knows us very well. We've been racing against each other since the Peace Race and he knows my weaknesses and he knows how we like to play out the finish," Jezowski said. "I've started my sprint 500 meters to go and it turned out to be too much for me. Schulze rocketed off my wheel and took a back to back win".

Only 7 kilometers into 157km stage two riders attacked for the break of the day. The duo included Jauhen Sobal (Belariusan National) and Rob Peeters (Telenet Fidea). Soon after they attacked there was massive crash in the bunch and two riders had to abandon the race. The winner of the first stage, Adam Wadecki (Aktio Group Mostostal Pulawy) injured his hand and it's very unlikely that he will take part in tomorrow's stage.

At kilometer 80 the break achieved its largest lead at 7 minutes and 20 seconds, but the PSK Whirlpool-Author led peloton kept the escape in check to protect Schulze's overall lead.

Peeters got dropped 60 kilometers from the finish line and Sobal continued his solo breakaway. He was caught on the next-to-last 6 kilometer lap. Wladimir Duma (Romet Weltour Debica) and Oleksandr Sheydyk (ISD Continental) tried to break clear in the final kilometers but without success.

Jezowski was the first man to start the sprint, and Andre Schulze took advantage of it. He jumped off the wheel of the Polish sprinter and won his second stage of the race.

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