Jonathan Milan continues his streak with second stage win in CRO Race

Jonathan Milan has won the second stage of the CRO Race. The weather was better compared to yesterday, and the race course was shorter. Milan once again showed his powerful legs in the final sprint and narrowly beat Pierre Barbier to climb the podium for the second time.

After some struggle, Tobiasz Pawlak, Alex Jaime, Nik Cemazar, Ziga Horvat, Viktor Potocki, Antonio Barac, and Lukas Meiler managed to form today’s breakaway. The group started with a lead of 1 minute and 45 seconds.

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The group worked together and increased the gap to over 2 minutes and 15 seconds before the peloton came into action and forced them under a minute. The peloton closed the gap drastically in the final kilometres and eventually caught up with the breakaway.

After a chaotic sprint, the photo finish was used to determine the winner. Jonathan Milan narrowly beat Pierre Barbier and took the stage victory. Pierre Barbier gave it all in the final sprint but had to settle for silver. Elia Viviani took the bronze. Milan remains the overall leader.

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