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Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) wins stage 2 from diminished uphill dash in Stirling
FDJ-Suez’ Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig took the dash forward of Soraya Paladin (Canyon-Sram) and Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Staff ADQ).
Uttrup Ludwig takes the win in Stirling!
Lower than 1km to go!
Gigante misplaced all her AG Insurance coverage-Soudal teammates on the entrance and Uttrup Ludwig is now third wheel.
Positioning beginning to grow to be crucial with 2km to go. Groups shifting up.
Area is strung below the impetus of AG Insurance coverage-Soudal with 3kms to go. It’s all uphill to the end. Can they maintain the tempo?
4kms to go and AG Insurance coverage-Soudal is again on the entrance. Ochre jersey Wollaston is barely hanging on the again.
All again collectively once more. Uttrup Ludwig staying attentive and shifting up.
Lauretta Hanson winds up the tempo to skinny out the peloton as they get to the 5km to go. After which her teammate Chapman goes off the entrance.
AG Insurance coverage-Soudal takes over the entrance with Liv AlUla Jayco behind them with 6km to go.
Lidl-Trek on the entrance setting a quick tempo, making it exhausting for the diminished subject to nullify any assaults. Ilaria Sanguineti pulls out leaving Brodie Chapman to proceed the quick tempo.
Peloton reels Watts again in with 8kms to go below the impetus of an assault by Franziska Koch (dsm-firmenich PostNL)
10km to go
Watts has 20 seconds to a considerably diminished peloton massed throughout the highway.
Watts is driving her bike as quick as she will be able to and now has a 30-second lead with 13km to go and groups are lining up on the entrance however present no urgency with 12km to go.
Watts is out of sight of the peloton on the twisty highway and will get 11 seconds. No response from the peloton.
Emily Watts (Australia) takes benefit of a lull within the peloton and assaults with 16km to go
Full outcomes of the second QOM:
1- Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Well being)
2- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ)
3- Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek)
4- Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Staff ADQ)
Mechanical for Audrey Cordon-Ragot who calmly waits for her workforce automotive to get a brand new bike.
Lidl-Trek’s Brodie Chapman was introduced again. Fast counter by Elizabeth Stannard (Australia) however that assault can be shutdown.
Ragusa simply will get high factors with nobody difficult her for the QOM. And Lidl-Trek assaults instantly after the climb.
Human Powered Well being’s Lily Williams on the entrance on the climb, setting the tempo for Ragusa who sits in second wheel.
25km to go
The riders will quickly start their second out of three ascensions of the cat 2 Stirling Climb, and this time QOM factors will likely be on the road. Ragusa maintain the QOM lead with 20 factors.
Edwards is marking Spratt who’s sitting behind her teammate on the entrance. Extra riders below stress are falling off the tempo behind the sphere.
33km to go. three-time winner Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) is shifting to the entrance.
“It is gonna be a very powerful day as we speak. I used to be down right here in December, reckoning right here and I simply assume it is a actually unpredictable stage. We have completed in Stirling earlier than, however I feel general the stage is tougher than what we have seen earlier than. We now have virtually 2000 metres of climbing. It’s one other scorching day within the legs, and I feel we’re gonna have a reasonably diminished dash on the finish in Stirling or a breakaway,” Spratt, winner of the race from 2017 to 2019, mentioned earlier than the beginning.
Peloton shut down the transfer with 39km to go. Lidl-Trek within the center, all bunched round Amanda Soratt. Georgia Howe for Liv AlUla Jayco and Sarah Gigante for AG Insurance coverage-Soudal on the entrance.
Group of 5 coming collectively off the entrance. Becoming a member of Fuller are Emily Watts (Australia), Krista Doebel-Hickok (Human Powered Well being), Ella Simpson (ARA – Slip Capital), and Karin Söderqvist (Lifeplus Wahoo).
In the meantime, riders falling off the tempo behind the peloton.
Heading by the end line for the primary time with 42km to go, Fuller has 24 seconds lead with some riders from Lifeplus Wahoo, Human Powered Well being and extra attempting to leap throughout.
Haylee Fuller (BridgeLane) is off the entrance solo with 26 seconds result in the peloton at 46km to go.
Full outcomes of the second intermediate dash:
1- Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Staff AQD)
2 – Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv AlUla Jayco) who additionally took second within the first intermediate dash.
3- Lily Williams (Human Powered Well being)
Assaults from BridgeLane, first from Gina Ricardo after which Haylee Fuller who will get a small hole with 49km to go.
UAE Staff AQD with huge leadout for Dominika Wlodarczyk who as soon as once more will get high factors within the second intermediate dash.
50km to go
Peloton all collectively, jostling for place for the second intermediate dash in Mylor, adopted by the two-and-a-half laps of a circuit by Stirling, that takes within the last climb 3 times. The choice for the win will in all probability be made on the 2km at 3.9% climb.
Area all along with 60km to go. Groups staying attentive to any change of wind course. A couple of riders straggling on the again, below stress from the excessive tempo.
Sensing a change within the wind course, Visma-Lease a Bike places the hammer down on the entrance.
Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Staff AQD) takes the factors and bonus seconds on the primary intermediate dash.
Lengthy vary battle for the factors and time bonus. Georgia Howe main her Liv AlUla Jayco workforce on the entrance however FDJ-SUEZ takes over. They began the dash tremendous early.
One other crash for Amanda Paulson (BridgeLane) who ran out of room on the highway narrowed. Two teammates waited for her.
70km to go
Lower than 2kms to the primary intermediate dash. Groups getting organized on the entrance for the factors, and the all-important time bonus seconds on provide. AG Insurance coverage-Soudal shifting as much as the entrance for the ochre jersey Ally Wollaston who needs to keeo the chief’s jersey after as we speak’s stage.
Ricardo moved up on the facet of the peloton, driving on the grave part to make her assault but it surely was to naught, as the sphere is again collectively.
Gina Ricardo (BridgeLane) takes a solo flyer, with a number of riders protecting her assault,
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Peloton regroups on the backside of the descent, surrounded by the vineyards with 83km to go. AG Insurance coverage-Soudal on the entrance setting the tempo for the ochre jersey, Some riders nonetheless attempting to catch again on after dropping on the climb.
Riders dashing down the descent at 82km/hr with dsm-firmenich PostNL on the entrance, placing out the peloton. Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) on the again.
Lily Williams leads out her teammate Ragusa who sprints out of the saddle with 200 meters to go to take the utmost 10 factors.
93km to go
Groups preventing for place on the entrance on the primary climb of the day with riders dropping off the again below stress from the tempo.
Massive struggle for place because the peloton with 5km to go to the primary QOM with 10 factors on provide.
Sarah Roy (Australian Nationwide Staff) crashes over the site visitors island whereas attempting to keep away from riders breaking in entrance of her. She is rapidly again on her bike and attempting to catch again onto the sphere.
Visma-Lease a Bike upping the tempo on the entrance, preventing with Lidl-Trek for management, hoping to separate the race within the cross headwind.
The primary problem comes early, solely 12km into the stage with the cat 1 climb of Cherry Gardens, 2.9km lengthy with a median gradient of 5.9% and a max gradient of 15.6%.
Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Well being) took the complete 10 QOM factors accessible whereas within the break on stage 1. Will she defend her QOM chief’s jersey? We’ll know very quickly.
Flag drop by race director Stuart O’Grady and we’re out of the impartial zone and racing has began!
Bike change for Lillee Pollock (BridgeLane) whereas nonetheless in impartial part. Official begin is delayed till all riders have caught again to the peloton.
Crash in impartial. Amanda Poulsen (BridgeLane) who was already sporting bandages from a crash yesterday, and Kimberley Le Court docket De Billot (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) had been concerned.
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The riders are rolling by 8.1km impartial part on their strategy to the official begin. A bit cooler as we speak with a forecast excessive of 31 levels Celsius below cloudy skies, however wind may very well be an element as we speak, with attainable gusts of 30 to 50 km/h predicted.
Stage 2 of the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath is ready to begin in slightly below 5 minutes. At 104.2km lengthy as we speak’s stage is the longest within the historical past of the race. The route from Glenelg to Stirling will ship lumpy terrain with 2079m of climbing with an uphill kick earlier than the road.
At this time is predicted to be a stage the place the GC riders want to remain cautious, however the GC will doubtless come all the way down to the ultimate stage. As cliched as it might sound, it is not a day the place the race is prone to be received, it is a day the place it may very well be misplaced.
Stage 1 winner Ally Wollaston (AG Insurance coverage-Soudal) tops the final classification with a 2-second lead on Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco) and 6 seconds on Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Staff ADQ). A complete of 51 riders are separated by 10 seconds or much less on GC.
Welcome to Cyclingnews’ reside protection of stage 2 of the Ladies’s Tour Down Underneath.
