Tour de France: Mathieu van der Poel edges out Tadej Pogacar in sprint finish to win stage two
Mathieu van der Poel threw Tadej Pogacar out on a surface to win the second stage of France and demand the leader’s yellow jersey.
The Dutch rider, who won the same stage in 2021, went forward with 500 meters to go to the longest scene of this year’s tour, and then made Slovenia from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-Sur-Mer with a 209.1km route.
Two times the champion Jonas Vinggegaard came third behind the great rival Pogacar, and Oscar on him passed the sixth place from England.
“It was very difficult, the final [part]It is harder than I think, Van Van der Poel said.
“I was really motivated because four years have passed since I won my first stage in Tour de France, so it was time to win a second one. Of course people put me as a favorite, but if you see the riders in front of the climbs, I did a really good job to be there.
“This is a dream for a team, the first two days, and now everything that comes is just a bonus.”
A very quiet stage, a series of attacks in front of the race to leave a rider in front of the peloton to divide the peloton in the last 40 km in three fist climbing.
And Van Der Poel, who organized Maillot Jaune four years ago for six days, underlined his status as a favorite for a classic -style scene in an exciting final.
