Consistency pays off for Pithie while De Kleijn wins stage 2
KOM battle
The real start was given at 12:33 to 154 riders. All the riders who finished stage 1 were at the start. Jonas Rutsch (EF-Easypost) and Mathieu Burgaudeau (TotalEnergies), the two leading riders in the KOM classification, attacked from the flag to tackle the first climb of the day from the front. The bunch gave them the go-ahead and they were leading by more than...