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Carlo Calzone (AND), Mark Renshaw (BEL), Jurgen Roelandts (LTB)

Race:

174km to go

The 146 riders are at the start of the second stage! 174 kilometers separate the riders from the start in Luxembourg to the (propable) mass sprint in Bascharage. Let’s go!

169km to go

The first attackers of the day! Aberasturi (EUS), Avery (CSS), Delpech (BSE) and Domagalski (CJR) are the first four.

154km to go

They are joined by Canola (BAR), Eichler, Matzka (both TNE) and Tan (RVL) to form a group of eight! The peleton hasn’t quite let them go yet, the gap is just 1 minute!

143km to go

No, the peleton has caught up with them again, but Eichler doesn’t give up yet!

129km to go

He is followed by a bunch of riders, including most of his former companions. Domagalski wins the first mountain sprint of the day! But the peleton is catching up on them again!

114km to go

And finally we have a morning break! 3 riders: Avery, Canola and Matzka succesfully sneaked away! They currently have a 2 minute gap

80km to go

Canola wins the second and final mountain sprint of today. The gap has increased to over 5 minutes, and Dermot Walker (TNE) suffered a puncture.

57km to go

The Italian also wins the intermediate sprint. Their gap has reached 6 minutes, but the peleton is already closing in by the hard work of Androni and Lotto. Walker managed to return to the peleton.

26km to go

The break is within 2 minutes now with 26 kilometers to go, and Urtasun (EUS) decides to attack, to be followed by Rast (RLT).

16km to go

Oh no, massive crash in the peleton. A long, incomplete list of victims, and then I'm only talking about the guys who actually crashed: Boom, Martens (both BEL), Gadret (ALM), Gatto (VIN), Gavazzi (AND), Gruzdev (AST), Schroder (EUC), Schleck (RLT), Vantomme (CRE), Walker, Zakarin (RVL)...


And race leader Gaudin (EUC)...


And Shaqif (MTN)! This will surely have an impact on the rest of the Tour!

13km to go

The leading group of 5 riders is almost caught by the first peleton, which counts 33 riders. It includes the entire Lotto team, Alinejad (RLT) as highest GC-rider, Calzone (AND), Renshaw (BEL) and some other ‘minor’ sprinters. Behind, the rest is divided in small groups, hard to get an oversight at the moment. Most riders were either involved in the crash, caught behind or called back to help an teammate.

7000m to go

The break is caught. The winner will certainly come out of this 37-rider group. The Lotto-train is already running in front, while everyone else is looking at Roelandts wheel. 1 and a half minute behind this group is a group of 5 riders, including Anton, Izagirre (both EUS) and Voeckler (EUC). The remaining riders are even further back.

3500m to go

No, I was wrong. Belkin has formed a train on the left for Bos (not Renshaw), and a suprising Champion System train for Avery, who has been in the break all day long. And we still have the big Lotto train for Roelandts.

2000m to go

Dehaes will be his lead-out man for today. The other trains disappeared. Lobato (EUS), Calzone, Drucker (AJW), Petit (COF), Furan (CJR) and Alinejad are on Roelandts’ wheel.

1000m to go

1 kilometer to go and Dehaes gives Roelandts an EPIC leadout. Others are trying to get round his back.

400m to go

But maybe Dehaes kept on a bit too long. Lobato is in pole position with 400 meters to go, followed by Calzone and Roelandts!

100m to go

3 riders on a row, who will win?

0m to go

Roelandts is raising his arms, he beats Calzone by a few millimeters. Lobato finishes third, Alinejad fourth and Petit in fifth. Roelandts is the new GC-leader, with Gaudin, Shaqif and Boom all behind. Alinejad takes the second place there, ahead of Calzone.


Martens edges out Verboven (EUS) in the 'losers' sprint for 44th, 2 minutes behind the leading group. De Negri (VIN), Jacobs (TSV), Lutsenko (AST) and Modolo (AND) did not finish.

Classifications:

Stage:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Jürgen Roelandts	Lotto Belisol	4h16'55
2	Carlo Calzone	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	s.t.
3	Juan José Lobato	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
4	Naveed Alinejad	RadioShack - Leopard	s.t.
5	Adrien Petit	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	s.t.
6	Pietor Furan	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	s.t.
7	Jempy Drucker	Accent Jobs - Wanty	s.t.
8	Pablo Urtasun	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
9	Sonny Colbrelli	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	s.t.
10	Theo Bos	Belkin Pro Cycling Team	s.t.

GC:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Jürgen Roelandts	Lotto Belisol	4h23'41
2	Naveed Alinejad	RadioShack - Leopard	+ 10
3	Carlo Calzone	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 13
4	Grégory Rast	RadioShack - Leopard	+ 16
5	Greg Henderson	Lotto Belisol	+ 18
6	Juan José Lobato	Euskaltel - Euskadi	s.t.
7	Thomas Schwabe	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 19
8	Theo Bos	Belkin Pro Cycling Team	+ 20
9	Jan Ghyselinck	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	s.t.
10	Jempy Drucker	Accent Jobs - Wanty	+ 21

Points:

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Naveed Alinejad	RadioShack - Leopard	28
2	Damien Gaudin	Team Europcar	25
3	Jürgen Roelandts	Lotto Belisol	25

Mountains:

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1	Karol Domagalski	Caja Rural - Seguros RGA	5
2	Marco Canola	Bardiani Valvole - CSF Inox	5
3	Clinton Avery	Champion System Pro Cycling Team	3

Young:

Rank	Name	Team	Time
1	Naveed Alinejad	RadioShack - Leopard	4h23'51
2	Carlo Calzone	Androni Giocattoli - Venezuela	+ 3
3	Juan José Lobato	Euskaltel - Euskadi	+ 8

Team:

Rank	Team	Time
1	Belkin Pro Cycling Team	13h11'45
2	Lotto Belisol	+ 13
3	Cofidis, Solutions Crédits	+ 21