France continues to dominate at the Grande Boucle in Italy. Second stage of the Tour de France, arrival in Bologna and another transalpine success: the winner in Emilia Romagna is Kevin Vaquelin. Most important victory of his career for the Arkéa – B&B Hotels class of 2001, who went on the attack since the morning. The Yellow Jersey also changes: already goes on the shoulders of Tadej Pogacar which puts the first stamp on this Tour.
Undici corridori sono risosciti a trovare la giornata escape: Quentin Pacher (Groupama – FDJ), Axel Laurance (Alpecin – Deceuninck), Hugo Houle (Israel – Premier Tech), Nelson Oliveira (Movistar Team), Kevin Vauquelin (Arkéa – B&B Hotels ), Cristian Rodriguez (Arkéa – B&B Hotels), Mike Teunissen (Intermarché – Wanty), Bram Welten (Team dsm-firmenich PostNL), Jonas Abrahamsen (Uno-X Mobility), Jordan Jegat (TotalEnergies), Harold Tejada (Astana).
The group had no intention of closing the gap: the Yellow Jersey team, dsm-firmenich PostNL, dictated the pace and, given the few dangers in terms of the general classification, left over 7 minutes to the attackers. Subsequently, the peloton lit up with the acceleration of the Lotto Dstny near the first climb to San Luca, where, however, none of the big names moved.
They took advantage up front Oliveira, Abrahamsen and Vaquelin, who went to play for the stage victory: on the last climb towards San Luca the transalpine greeted everyone going for a beautiful stage victory.
In the platoon, however, here is the show: shot of Tadej Pogacar (UAE Emirates) with a wheel Jonas Vingegaard (Visma | Lease a Bike), the two immediately clashed head-to-head. Behind them, everyone was detached, including Primoz Roglic and the Yellow Jersey Romain Bardet. Remco Evenepoel was very good at catching up with the two phenomena in the final stretch along with Richard Carapaz. Pogacar took the Yellow Jersey, while
