2018 Tour de Suisse Stage 2 Results & Recap
Stage 2 of the 2018 Tour de Suisse is in the books. The final results and standings are below, followed by our recap of how the race unfolded.
Race Recap
Sagan claims 16th victory at Tour de Suisse
World champion Peter Sagan continued his winning ways at the Frauenfeld Circuit Race, coming around an early acceleration by Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors) and winning by a hair. Nathan Haas (Katusha-Alpecin) put in a strong performance for third place.
“The team prepared everything to perfection,” Sagan said. “That way, I only needed to finish the job. During the bunch sprint, I focused on Michael Matthews and Fernando Gaviria. During the final metres, the headwind made it extremely hard to move into the lead.”
Stefan Küng (BMC Racing Team) successfully retained his leaders’ jersey in front of a home crowd for another day, helped along by winning an intermediate sprint giving him those precious bonus seconds needed to hold on to it.
“Michael Schär pulled me to the front for the sprint,” Stefan Küng (BMC Racing Team) said. “Otherwise, I would have lost this nice jersey because in case of a sprint we were trying to set up olympic champion Greg Van Avermaet.”
The day’s route consisted of four laps around a circuit of 38 kilometres, each with one hill attached. Filippo Zaccanto (NIP), Pierre Quemeneur (ZDE) and Calvin Watson (ABS) made up the only break of the day that steadily maintained a two-minute gap due to the pace set by BMC and Quick Step Floors in the peloton.
An attack by Michael Albasini (MTS) to bridge up to the trio broke up the formulaic nature of the stage, but after working hard in the break to keep the magic alive, the sprint teams took over and finished the job.
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