Extended Highlights – Stage 2 – The AlUla Tour 2024

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Here Comes Milano but it’s Casper vanen Casper vanen here comes gron ofen on the inside gron ofen did he take it on the line Casper Van Odin is the stage winner it was a fantastic Sprint for vanen Casper Van oudin upset some of the more fancied sprinters to win the first

Stage of the alula tour yesterday and the young Dutchman is relishing the prospect of a first day in the leaders green jersey for me it doesn’t add more pressure I think uh my goals succeeded so we can just have fun and ride the best way we can and uh we just enjoy it

And uh yeah hopefully we can do something again today but yeah we we will see Today’s Punchy finish is likely to prove too tough for the pure sprinters but it could be perfect for a man like saon veren schold who won last year on the uphill drag to Abu Raka yeah it’s a little bit uh it’s not as steep but uh yeah I think it will suit me well so just have to time the lead out so it’s goes a little bit down so just have to keep the momentum into the climb so the other guy other guys uh

Don’t come from behind so but uh yeah we will see Brian Kaka also likes a tough Sprint and he’s wearing one of the luckiest numbers in cycling you’re wearing number 51 you have a smile on your face because you know about number 51 yeah yeah uh I have 51 win in

Profession and I tried to today to to take the the 52 today’s Final could also be important in the context of overall Victory and the British champion Fred Wright has promised to liven things up my plan is to you know pick up as many bonus seconds as I can on the way

To the to the final climb and yeah try and survive not lose too much time to the climbers and then yeah try and try and win the overall get go for the GC why not stage two is the longest of this year’s Edition with a shade under 200 km

To cover between Winter Park and the Sharon Nature Reserve there was also a bit more wind forecast today so there’ll be a greater threat of echelons the final drag to the Finish Line will really Sting the legs with average gradients of around 6% so the punchier sprinters could end up vying for victory

With some of the GC contenders there was a bit of crosswind action before the live pictures began with the peleton splitting into four groups at one point but everything had calmed down with around 65 KMS to Go once again there were riders in the Breakaway with several of the same teams as yesterday on the Move husel escardi were this time represented in Orange by ENOZ aspar who discovered this race last year Andreas miltiadis a 13-time champion of Cyprus was up there for the

Teran ganu cycling team along with two Riders from rji insurance tbay bat shaian the winner of last year’s tour of Thailand and polychronis to zachis the Greek time trial specialist who made that late attack yesterday the fifth member of the group was atsushi Oka from JCL Tim Yukio who

Was quickest at the first intermediate active Sprint today’s bonus Sprint had come early with zabia asaran and a his brother taking the three seconds ahead of Anders hen johanneson and Artisan pansas with 55 km to go the Breakaway had a lead of around 3 and 1/2 minutes

With the pelan being driven by Jacob alula sudal quickstep and DSM feric post NL on behalf of their race leader Casper Van Uden the bunch plowing into a cross headwind and they were clearly wary of being caught out again a sudden injection of pace quickly brought the gap down to under two minutes MV star trying to force some splits on behalf of their leader David formolo last year’s runner up who was selected

Ahead of the defending Champion Ruben Guerrero no luck but a few nerves in the pelan caused a crash with one of the Saudi national Riders going to ground hard oh and a crash one of the Saudi Riders has just hit the deck with a very big full this looks like ammad Al

Omrani the Breakaway had meanwhile reached the second intermediate active Sprint and Oka took another three points ahead of bat saon their fun at the front was soon over though they were swallowed up by the pelan with 342 km Remaining well here’s something you don’t see every day a mini Sandstorm which luckily didn’t hit the peltin we saw Simon Yates caught out by a late puncture yesterday today it was falo’s turn problem here right hand side of the road for David formo this is not good

News cuz this race right now is full on formo has a problem the Italian chasing har with the help of his teammates Yan yobs and Matias norgard meanwhile the pelan were getting a front row seat of one of the most spectacular sites in this part of the

World or indeed anywhere in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia the UNESCO world heritage site of hegra which will host the start of Friday’s fourth stage perhaps the bunch load down to get a better look either way formo was safely back in with just over 16k to go everyone starting to jostle for

Position on the run in with the speed really increasing as they suddenly moved into a Tailwind section the pelan starting to thin out as the road began to rise with cedus working on the front for cocka it was no real surprise to see Hunan dropped he had at any rate been struggling with

Illness and then the GC favorites began to make their moves Rafal Micah was the first man to light it up for UAE team Emirates his teammate Finn fiser black then had a go Simon Yates also right up there but the most decisive looking attack came from Pier

L sain varen gold is there with his zuno X team they’re trying to line this one up but lurus still got a little bit of an advantage for total energy have Uno X got enough 500 M to go it’s still Pierre lur of total energy he is

Still there he is still holding on they’re desperately trying to close the gap now Uno X are trying to fire with vence gold is Pierre lur going to get it on the line it’s a furious Sprint latur is caught here goes sain valence gold sain Vance gold all the way to the line

He was the favorite farence gold takes it for Runo XM saen waren SC becomes just the third Rider to win multiple stages of the Lula tour along with runaan and Phil bow housee the 23-year-old Norwegian securing his seventh career Victory and showing he is a force to be reckoned

With in these Punchy finishes as a bonus the unox mobility man takes over from Van Udan as the race Leader was a little bit easier than the the one we had last year that was really steep so so this one was even better for me and uh we wanted to to stay in the front but not too too far uh too far up in the

Pelaton in the last 4K so so we did perfect and then we just tried to gather uh on the top and just try to keep the momentum in the in the last 500 M because yeah it goes a little bit uphill so you don’t want to lose the power so

We just yeah timed it perfect faren SC winning ahead of henok Mahan the two-time African road race champion Neils akov and Van Udin both made the top five for DSM feric postnl either side of kaka Ven schal and Van Udan are level on time but the Norwegian leads the race by

Virtue of better stage rankings he is also now on top in the red jersey standings leading by just a point from Van uden Mahan and kovan have 12 AP piece Oka replaces uni zubel deer as leader of the most active Rider competition they both have six points

But the Japanese Rider is better placed overall and like van uden yesterday at varen has three jerseys he is also our best young Rider tomorrow should be a more classic Sprint stage between alula International Airport and the alula camel cup track so do join us again on Thursday and thanks for watching