It's a 1-2 for 🇧🇪 as @JasperPhilipsen defeats the man in form @MerlierTim, and🇪🇷@GrmayeBiniam wrapping up the podium 🔱#TirrenoAdriatico
Jasper Philipsen opens account for 2024 with sprint win on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico 2024
CyclingTuesday, 05 March 2024 at 15:40
Alpecin-Deceuninck's Jasper Philipsen has taken the win after a frantic bunch sprint on stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico 2024 in Follonica.
With a four-man breakaway forming relatively early on, including star of the 2023 Giro d'Italia, Davide Bais, they were held on a very tight leash by the peloton.
After taking the maximum points at the intermediate sprint, Jan Stöckli continued on with his attack, maintaining the breakaway solo as his former companions were caught. With around 36km to go though, he too had been swallowed by the bunch.
With a few narrow pinch points, the battle for positioning at the front of the peloton was becoming frantic as an expected, bunch sprint finale neared.
At around 17km to go, disaster struck for one of the pre-stage hopefuls, Mark Cavendish with an untimely puncture with things not helped by a very pedestrian wheel change that all but ruled him out of the upcoming sprint.
Just under 5km to go there was a small crash with Chris Froome and Simone Velasco among the riders to hit the deck.
The main GC stars managed to safely navigate their way through the 3km to go marker though the sprint teams then taking full control at the front.
In the sprint to the line it was frantic with riders everywhere and leadouts scattered. Tim Merlier opened the sprint but Jasper Philipsen powered around to take a relatively comfortable victory. Biniam Girmay completing the podium.
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- Most of these have nothing to do with rider safety or are completely unachievablevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Depends on how fast the Cipressa would be beforehand and in what condition Philipsen would bevappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Some things sound crazy until they aren't, what if he's actually right? 🤷vappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- Why make a comment to state the obvious? Of course MvdP is much better at CX than Pogacar, does anyone doubt that But that wasn't his pointvappaxbipmv23-12-2024
- If you look at road alone obvi Pogacar is the better rider. But maybe MVDP is the better overall rider since he can win in three plus disciplines?mobk23-12-2024
- Correction on 2021 Olympics. It was mainly the Dutch ladies who didn’t know who was leading the race. Other teams like the Germans and Italians knew that Kiesenhofer was out front.mobk23-12-2024
- A champion turning into a sore loser. Or is he on coke again?
UltimateOpportunist23-12-2024 - If you look at the major races they’ve both been in, van der Poel had the early edge as lately Pogacar has had the advantage. It’s all on procyclingstats.RidesHills23-12-2024
- I wouldn’t assume Tadej can’t win at cross. He did a cross race, not a World Cup, a few years ago and crushed the field. It was a minor race. But he can win anywhere.mij23-12-2024
- I wonder what would happen if Pogacar attacked on the Cipressa instead of the Poggio in San Remo? Would MvdPoel still be able to follow?Ride197423-12-2024