Today's stage towards the desert in the North is littered with KOM sprints, especially through the final third of the day. Likelihood is a similar finish to yesterday's stage but given the number of hills late on there should be an opportunity for a successful late attack to open up the GC.
Early breakaway of 5 is made up of Schreurs, Mat Senan, Peng, Balloni and KOM leader Robov. Their lead early is 2 minutes and climbing.
The first KOM sprint of the day is won by Robov who further extends his lead. Schreurs is 2nd.
Peng wins both of the 2 early intermediate sprints.
Robov makes it 2 from 2 at the 2nd KOM of the day. His lead now out to 19 points.
90km to go and quite a few teams sharing the load in the Peloton. They have the break under 3 minutes.
3rd KOM and it's the same 1-2 as we have seen twice already. Robov now 24 points clear.
Schreurs wins KOM number 4. The gap between him and Robov now 20 points.
The same order at the next one! These 3 lead by only 30 seconds with 35km to go.
26km still to go and the breakaway is now well and truly caught.
10km to go and we see some action from the favourites! It's Boswell who goes first. Paulinho and Eiking are right there with him. Borges and Kelderman just behind them.
4km now to go and it was Skujins who led a group of 4 up to what is now a leading group of 9 favourites. Their lead over a small, stretched out Peloton is 25 seconds.
1.5km now for this group. Bobridge is leading the next group of riders who should avoid losing time but are unlikely to be fighting for the win.
900m and the sprint between the leading group is underway. Eiking looking good early on.
300m now and Eiking still in the lead but he's not uncontested!
And Eiking holds on for an Odd stage win!
Paulinho is 2nd ahead of Boswell. Borges is 4th while McCarthy is 5th.
Van Stayen's sprint for 10th ensured no time gap between the front 9 and those behind them.
Eiking is the new GC Leader. 118 riders were given the same time as him in the end.
Robov leads the KOM by 16 points. Eiking leads the Points. Oliveira still leads U25s. Zalgiris leads the Teams.
Tour of South Africa - Stage 2 Report 
