It's the first of the puncheur-favoured stages of this Tour. The big question will be whether Lopez can live up to his favourite tag today, similar to Degenkolb yesterday? The climbers targeting the GC will also need to be weary here in an effort to avoid losing too much time.
Turgis wins the sprint over the first KOM of the day ahead of Lastra.
The Frenchman makes it 2 from 2 as Razumov joins the duo.
107km of today's stage remaining. We have a breakaway of 4 riders. S.Mugisha is the 4th rider who joins the earlier mentioned trio. They are 2'29 ahead of Sulvaran who is 51 seconds clear of the Peloton.
Turgis won the first of 2 intermediate sprints quite comfortably.
73km remaining for the Peloton who have just swept up Sulvaran. The gap for the 4 leaders is 2'53.
Turgis wins the 2nd intermediate sprint as well.
50km remaining and the gap is coming down slowly, it's now 2'21.
The gap continues to decrease as it's now down to 1'25 with 30km to go.
Turgis leaves his companions behind as he makes it 3/3 KOM wins. He has 20km to go as his gap to the Peloton is 1'19 which 3 riders in-between.
Yellow Jersey, Degenkolb is part of a small group that has been split off the back of the Peloton.
Turgis's time at the front comes to an end with 14km remaining.
10km to the finish and no action from the favourites just yet. The Peloton still has 143 riders.
2km to go and riders are sprawled out over the lower slopes of the finishing climb.
Lopez leads the accelerations with 2km to go. Godoy reacts instantly.
1.2km to go. Lopez breaks free of the rest as he goes off under the kite. There's a group of 9 who are keeping relatively close to him while the other GC favourites are fractured all over the place.
700m now for Lopez. The 9 GC riders have lost most of their gap to the larger group behind him.
Miguel Angel Lopez wins Stage 2 in dominant fashion!
Godoy wins the short sprint for 2nd ahead of Guldhammer and Preidler while Monsalve also finishes with them. They are + 26".
Areruya is then 6th ahead of Chernetskiy and Latour while Galta is 9th.
Penasa is 10th ahead of the other GC favourites.
All the way down to 29th is awarded the same time as Godoy.
After his stage win today, Lopez moves into the GC lead by 34 seconds ahead of Godoy. Guldhammer an additional + 4" in 3rd and then Roglic in 4th down to Raileanu in 28th are at + 46".
Lopez also leads the Points. Turgis leads the KOM. Areruya leads the U25s with the same time as Sivakov, Bernal and Min. Philips - Force India move into the lead in the Teams.
Tour du Maroc - Stage 2 Report 
