Guardini strikes again in Odense

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Andrea Guardini (Astana) took his second sprint victory at the Tour of Denmark on Saturday morning, winning the 100km road stage from Nyborg to Odense. The riders face a 15km afternoon time trial in Middelfart, with Sunday's final stage over 175km between Kalundborg-Frederiksberg.

Guardini won stage two from Skive to Aarhus on Thursday beating Gerald Ciolek (Mtn Qhubeka) and Matti Breschel (Tinkoff-Saxo). This time he beat Tom Van Asbroeck (Topsport) and fellow Italian Filippo Fortin (Bardiani-CSF).

The short road race stage was characterized by a breakaway by Christopher Williams (Team Novo Nordisk), Daniel Foder (TreFor-Blue Water), Mikkel Mortensen (Riwal Platform). They opened a three-minute lead after 50km but were gradually reeled in by Tinkoff-Saxo, in defence of Manuele Boaro's race leadership, before the Bardiani-CSF also joined in the chase to setup up the sprint. However Guardini out-powered Fortin on the wet roads to win again.

Boaro continues to lead the race. Tiesj Benoot (Lotto-Belisol) is second at 18 seconds, with his teammate Sean De Bie (Lotto-Belisol) at 21 seconds. Boaro is an excellent time trialist and so is the favourite for overall victory in this year's race.

"I'm really happy because I knew I and my team could do a good job. This is the second bunch sprint and the second win for us," Guardini said after taking the top step on the podium.

"We knew it would be hard to catch the breakaway but we could see them in the final kilometres and I was waiting behind teammates. We produced a good sprint and took the final corner perfectly. It was hard because it it was slightly uphill."

"Unfortunately we lost Jakob Fuglsang after two crashes in two days and he's gone home. But we'd like to win again tomorrow for him."

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