feat of the eternal De Marchi in Stans! The favorites look at each other

Alessandro De Marchi imperishable! At almost 38 years old, the Friulian runner takes great satisfaction in the Tour of the Alps: crowns the breakaway attempt by winning the second stage in Stans alone, separating his adventure companions Simon Pellaud and Patrick Gamper: The Buja red returns to win for the first time after the Tre Valli Varesine 2021, 2 years and 194 days ago, and it is his seventh career success. He remains leader of the general classification Tobias Foss.

There The race was immediately brought to life by an attack of six runners just over 150 km from the finish line: Patrick Gamper (Bora-Hansgrohe), Atsushi Oka and Yuma Koishi (JCL Team UKYO), Simon Pellaud (Tudor), Lukas Pöstlberger (Team Austria) and Alessandro De Marchi (Jayco-AlUla) have an advantage over the group. The first to break away are the two Japanese, but the escape continues by mutual agreement.

A common agreement that allows the pacesetters to accumulate over four minutes of advantage over the group and to maintain a rather stable advantage, enough to dream of final success, given the space granted by the peloton. About 40 kilometers from the end Pöstlberger also breaks away the fugitives remain three: the group seems to be trying INEOS Grenadiers, but without too much conviction.

But about 33 km from the finish line Patrick Gamper attacks solo on a small climb to try to anticipate the escape companions. On the Gnadenwald climb everything changes: Gamper can no longer hold on, Pellaud and De Marchi comes back under him and the Friulian attacks and remains alone. The Buja red he goes straight to the finish line, crowning this breakaway attempt with a magnificent victory at almost 38 years of age. Second place for Gamper and third for Pellaud, who were in the breakaway together with the Italian. He comes seventh in the platoon Antonio Tiberi in a stage in which the men in the classification studied and saved themselves in view of tomorrow’s stage in Schwaz, which is very explosive and unpredictable.