Italy's Alberio takes opening stage in Brazil

 Italian Tomas Alberio (Trevigiani Dynamon Bottoli) won the 139 km race, which started in Rio de Janeiro and travelled west along the coastline to Angra dos Reis. Team Type 1’s Chris Jones finished second in the four man sprint, the remnants of an original 18-man breakaway.

"I'm not sure if it was bad legs from the long travel, or it was a hard course but none of us felt great today," Jones said. "I found the right break about halfway through the stage. It was nice to get some time on the other general classification guys before the climbing starts tomorrow."

Brazilian riders Renato Santos (Clube Dataro de Ciclismo) and Mauricio Morandi (Scott/Marcondes Cesar/SJC) claimed third and fourth in the final sprint. Jones’ teammate Kenneth Hanson won the field sprint, 56 seconds behind the remnants of the breakaway.

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Jones will mind the green jersey of best sprinter for Alberio on Thursday's 165 km race from Redonda to Três Rios. Lucas Onesco (Sao Lucas/Giant/Cicloravena/American) leads the mountains classification.

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