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Mechanical for Audrey Cordon-Ragot who calmly waits for her crew automobile to get a brand new bike.
Lidl-Trek’s Brodie Chapman was introduced again. Fast counter by Elizabeth Stannard (Australia) however that assault can also be shutdown.
Ragusa simply will get high factors with nobody difficult her for the QOM. And Lidl-Trek assaults instantly after the climb.
Human Powered Well being’s Lily Williams on the entrance on the climb, setting the tempo for Ragusa who sits in second wheel.
25km to go
The riders will quickly start their second out of three ascensions of the cat 2 Stirling Climb, and this time QOM factors shall be on the road. Ragusa maintain the QOM lead with 20 factors.
Edwards is marking Spratt who’s sitting behind her teammate on the entrance. Extra riders below stress are falling off the tempo behind the sphere.
33km to go. three-time winner Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) is shifting to the entrance.
“It is gonna be a very powerful day at the moment. I used to be down right here in December, reckoning right here and I simply assume it is a actually unpredictable stage. We have completed in Stirling earlier than, however I believe total the stage is tougher than what we have seen earlier than. We’ve got virtually 2000 metres of climbing. It’s one other sizzling day within the legs, and I believe we’re gonna have a reasonably decreased dash on the finish in Stirling or a breakaway,” Spratt, winner of the race from 2017 to 2019, mentioned earlier than the beginning.
Peloton shut down the transfer with 39km to go. Lidl-Trek within the center, all bunched round Amanda Soratt. Georgia Howe for Liv AlUla Jayco and Sarah Gigante for AG Insurance coverage-Soudal on the entrance.
Group of 5 coming collectively off the entrance. Becoming a member of Fuller are Emily Watts (Australia), Krista Doebel-Hickok (Human Powered Well being), Ella Simpson (ARA – Slip Capital), and Karin Söderqvist (Lifeplus Wahoo).
In the meantime, riders falling off the tempo behind the peloton.
Heading by way of the end line for the primary time with 42km to go, Fuller has 24 seconds lead with some riders from Lifeplus Wahoo, Human Powered Well being and extra making an attempt to leap throughout.
Haylee Fuller (BridgeLane) is off the entrance solo with 26 seconds result in the peloton at 46km to go.
Full outcomes of the second intermediate dash:
1- Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Workforce AQD)
2 – Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) who additionally took second within the first intermediate dash.
3- Lily Williams (Human Powered Well being)
Assaults from BridgeLane, first from Gina Ricardo after which Haylee Fuller who will get a small hole with 49km to go.
UAE Workforce AQD with massive leadout for Dominika Wlodarczyk who as soon as once more will get high factors within the second intermediate dash.
50km to go
Peloton all collectively, jostling for place for the second intermediate dash in Mylor, adopted by the two-and-a-half laps of a circuit by way of Stirling, that takes within the last climb thrice. The choice for the win will in all probability be made on the 2km at 3.9% climb.
Area all along with 60km to go. Groups staying attentive to any change of wind course. A number of riders straggling on the again, below stress from the excessive tempo.
Sensing a change within the wind course, Visma-Lease a Bike places the hammer down on the entrance.
Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Workforce AQD) takes the factors and bonus seconds on the primary intermediate dash.
Lengthy vary battle for the factors and time bonus. Georgia Howe main her Liv AlUla Jayco crew on the entrance however FDJ-SUEZ takes over. They began the dash tremendous early.
One other crash for Amanda Paulson (BridgeLane) who ran out of room on the street narrowed. Two teammates waited for her.
70km to go
Lower than 2kms to the primary intermediate dash. Groups getting organized on the entrance for the factors, and the all-important time bonus seconds on supply. AG Insurance coverage-Soudal shifting as much as the entrance for the ochre jersey Ally Wollaston who desires to keeo the chief’s jersey after at the moment’s stage.
Ricardo moved up on the aspect of the peloton, using on the grave part to make her assault nevertheless it was to naught, as the sphere is again collectively.
Gina Ricardo (BridgeLane) takes a solo flyer, with just a few riders overlaying her assault,
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Peloton regroups on the backside of the descent, surrounded by the vineyards with 83km to go. AG Insurance coverage-Soudal on the entrance setting the tempo for the ochre jersey, Some riders nonetheless making an attempt to catch again on after dropping on the climb.
Riders dashing down the descent at 82km/hr with dsm-firmenich PostNL on the entrance, putting out the peloton. Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) on the again.
Lily Williams leads out her teammate Ragusa who sprints out of the saddle with 200 meters to go to take the utmost 10 factors.
93km to go
Groups preventing for place on the entrance on the primary climb of the day with riders dropping off the again below stress from the tempo.
Large battle for place because the peloton with 5km to go to the primary QOM with 10 factors on supply.
Sarah Roy (Australian Nationwide Workforce) crashes over the visitors island whereas making an attempt to keep away from riders breaking in entrance of her. She is shortly again on her bike and making an attempt to catch again onto the sphere.
Visma-Lease a Bike upping the tempo on the entrance, preventing with Lidl-Trek for management, hoping to separate the race within the cross headwind.
The primary problem comes early, solely 12km into the stage with the cat 1 climb of Cherry Gardens, 2.9km lengthy with a mean gradient of 5.9% and a max gradient of 15.6%.
Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Well being) took the complete 10 QOM factors obtainable whereas within the break on stage 1. Will she defend her QOM chief’s jersey? We’ll know very quickly.
Flag drop by race director Stuart O’Grady and we’re out of the impartial zone and racing has began!
Bike change for Lillee Pollock (BridgeLane) whereas nonetheless in impartial part. Official begin is delayed till all riders have caught again to the peloton.
Crash in impartial. Amanda Poulsen (BridgeLane) who was already sporting bandages from a crash yesterday, and Kimberley Le Court docket De Billot (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) had been concerned.
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The riders are rolling by way of 8.1km impartial part on their strategy to the official begin. A bit cooler at the moment with a forecast excessive of 31 levels Celsius below cloudy skies, however wind might be an element at the moment, with potential gusts of 30 to 50 km/h predicted.
Stage 2 of the Girls’s Tour Down Underneath is about to start out in just below 5 minutes. At 104.2km lengthy at the moment’s stage is the longest within the historical past of the race. The route from Glenelg to Stirling will ship lumpy terrain with 2079m of climbing with an uphill kick earlier than the road.
At present is predicted to be a stage the place the GC riders want to remain cautious, however the GC will probably come right down to the ultimate stage. As cliched as it could sound, it is not a day the place the race is prone to be received, it is a day the place it might be misplaced.
Stage 1 winner Ally Wollaston (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) tops the overall classification with a 2-second lead on Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco) and 6 seconds on Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Workforce ADQ). A complete of 51 riders are separated by 10 seconds or much less on GC.
Welcome to Cyclingnews’ reside protection of stage 2 of the Girls’s Tour Down Underneath.