Santos Tour Down Under 2016: Stage 2
January 1 - January 24, Unley, South Australia, Road - WorldTour
Hello and welcome to live coverage from stage 2 of the Tour Down Under.
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Welcome to today's coverage of the Tour Down Under's second stage.
Yesterday's stage was taken out by Orica-GreenEdge sprinter Caleb Ewan with an exciting run to the line.
Here's the top 10:
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica–GreenEdge 3:24:13
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data
3 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale
4 Marko Kump (Slo) Lampre–Merida
5 Adam Blythe (GBr) Tinkoff
6 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek–Segafredo
7 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
8 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia
9 José Joaquin Rojas (Esp) Team Movistar
10 Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Soudal
...And the General Classification after stage 1:
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Caleb Ewan (Aus) Orica–GreenEdge 3:24:13
2 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Team Dimension Data 0:00:04
3 Alexis Gougeard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
4 Wouter Wippert (Ned) Cannondale 0:00:06
5 Sean Lake (Aus) UniSA-Australia 0:00:07
6 Marko Kump (Slo) Lampre–Merida 0:00:10
7 Adam Blythe (GBr) Tinkoff
8 Giacomo Nizzolo (Ita) Trek–Segafredo
9 Ben Swift (GBr) Team Sky
10 Steele von Hoff (Aus) UniSA-Australia
Today's 132km stage from Unley to Stirling includes 1 KOM and 2 intermediate sprints.
Here's what Orica-GreenEdge sports director Matt White had to say about the stage:
"Same as stage 1, there will be an early breakaway and then it gets very fast on the Stirling circuits which makes life very hard for any break away to succeed purely from the speed of the nervous bunch. It's a stage that we will be looking to win with Simon Gerrans and I think the biggest opposition on the stage will be someone like Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida). He's won there before (2014, ed) and Lampre for me have a good team coming out and I think he will be one of our biggest competitors."
You can read more abut the stage here.
In case you missed our earlier coverage at the Tour de San Luis, Etixx-QuickStep's young sprinter Fernando Gaviria won the sprint finish ahead of Peter Sagan and Elia Viviani. You can read about he stage here.
Here's the top 10 from today:
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Fernando Gaviria Rendon (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step 4:23:54
2 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff Team
3 Elia Viviani (Ita) Italy
4 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo - Vini Fantini
5 Lucas Sebastian Haedo (Arg) Team Jamis
6 Mauro Abel Richeze (Arg) San Luis Somos Todos
7 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - Sidermec
8 Jason Lowndes (Aus) Drapac Professional Cycling
9 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Italy
10 Marco Canola (Ita) UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team
And the overall after stage 2:
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Fernando Gaviria (Col) Etixx - Quick-step 4:47:37
2 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Etixx - Quick-step 0:00:10
3 Rodrigo Contreras (Col) Etixx - Quick-step
4 Lukasz Wisniowski (Pol) Etixx - Quick-step
5 Dayer Quintana (Col) Movistar Team 0:00:18
6 Adriano Malori (Ita) Movistar Team
7 Nairo Quintana (Col) Movistar Team
8 Marc Soler (Spa) Movistar Team
9 Daniel Moreno (Spa) Movistar Team
10 Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo 0:00:27
Today's weather looks ideal for a bike race. Here's a brief forecast:
Stage 2 will be drier, sunnier and cooler than Stage 1 but similarly windy and similarly sheltered by trees
Summary - Dry, sunny (just a bit of high clouds) and about 30 degrees with moderate westerly winds
Start at Unley - 29-30 degrees with westerly winds 15-20km/h
Climb to Crafers - 30 degrees cooling to 25-26 degrees at the top as westerlies persist at 15-20km/h (cross-tail wind)
Looping around the Adelaide Hills to the finish at Stirling - warming to 27-30 degrees as westerlies pick up to 20-25km/h (tail wind for Crafers to Carey Gully, cross wind for most of the remainder apart from the section coming through Aldgate to Stirling)
And the race has started. Riders are on the cobbles and a Trek rider hits the deck. He's back up and in the peloton, however. We're underway.
Mark Cavendish has been impressed so far with the two young sprinters in Australia and Argentina, Tweeting this just minutes ago:
The way @FndoGaviria & @CalebEwan have destroyed their competitors so early in the season is actually quite terrifying! Young superstars!
The power struggle in cycling between the UCI and Tour de France owner ASO continues, but UCI President Brian Cookson has vowed to meet with Tour de France Director Christian Prudhomme in hopes of talking things out. Read more here.
In other news today, Cannondale's Rigoberto Uran says he's ready to take on the Giro this year. Read about Uran's Giro hopes here.
While we're waiting for today's breakaway to gain traction, you can vote for your favourite WorldTour jersey of 2016 here.
Riders are gearing up for today's Subaru KOM at Rangeview Rd. Things will definitely split up on the climb
The four leaders have crossed the KOM. We'll have result shortly. Meanwhile, the road continues to climb.
There were some surprise picks for the Giro d'Italia wildcard invitations. We analyse them for you here.
105km remaining from 132km
The peloton has gone under finish banner on the circuit they'll be on until the end of the race. They've got five laps to go now.
Solo leader Adam Hansen's advantage has grown to 2:20 as he passes underneath the fish banner for the second time.
Hansen takes the first intermediate sprint, followed by Orica-GreenEdge teammates Simon Gerrans and Caleb Ewan.
80km remaining from 132km
The amped up sped for the sprint cut into Hansen'e lead, which is down to 55 seconds.
Former ski jumper Primož Roglič is on domestique duty for LottoNL-Jumbo this week at the Tour Down Under. Read Australian editor Zeb Woodpower's profile of Roglič here.
63km remaining from 132km
Adam Hansen has rebuilt his gap to two minutes at the halfway point. And we have another abandon, this time it's Team Sky's Salvatore Puccio.
45km remaining from 132km
Hansen has 2:30 on the peloton now as he rides the fourth of five laps not he circuit.
39km remaining from 132km
With less than 40km remaining, Orica-GreenEdge has pulled Hansen's gap down to 1:48.
30km remaining from 132km
Hansen's advantage is sticking at around 1:30 now. Orica continues to lead the chase. They've got to confident they can whittle away this gap pretty quickly when the race heats up.
4km remaining from 132km
Sky took a turn on the front that thinned things out, and now Cannondale has taken over the lad position.
Today's top 10
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Jay Mccarthy(Aus) Tinkoff 6:50:43
2 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida
3 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bmc Racing Team
4 Patrick Bevin (Nzl) Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
5 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team Lottonl-Jumbo
6 Juan José Lobato (Spain) Movistar Team
7 Anthony Roux (Fra) Fdj
8 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant - Alpecin
9 Julián David Arredondo (Col) Trek-Segafredo
10 Patrick Shaw (Aus) Unisa-Australia
Corrected Stage results and GC:
Brief Results
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Jay McCarthy(Aus) Tinkoff 3:28:40
2 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida
3 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bmc Racing Team
4 Danilo Wyss (Sui) Bmc Racing Team
5 Petr Vakoc (Cze) Etixx - Quick Step
6 Patrick Bevin (Nzl) Cannondale Pro Cycling Team
7 Juan José Lobato (Spa) Movistar Team
8 Sergio Henao (Col) Team Sky
9 Anthony Roux (Fra) Fdj
10 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team Lottonl-Jumbo
General Classification
# Rider Name (Country) Team Result
1 Jay Mccarthy(Aus) Tinkoff 6:50:43
2 Diego Ulissi (Ita) Lampre - Merida 0:00:04
3 Rohan Dennis (Aus) Bmc Racing Team 0:00:06
4 Patrick Bevin (Nzl) Cannondale Pro Cycling Team 0:00:10
5 Enrico Battaglin (Ita) Team Lottonl-Jumbo
6 Juan José Lobato (Spain) Movistar Team
7 Anthony Roux (Fra) Fdj
8 Tobias Ludvigsson (Swe) Team Giant - Alpecin
9 Julián David Arredondo (Col) Trek-Segafredo
10 Patrick Shaw (Aus) Unisa-Australia
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