Tour de France: Jakobsen overtakes Van Aert on line to win stage 2

Dutch rider Fabio Jakobsen overtook Wout van Aert appropriate on the line to get the 2nd stage of the Tour de France while Van Aert took the yellow jersey on Saturday.

It was a to start with Tour stage gain for Jakobsen and a second in two days for the Rapid-Move Alpha Vinyl team after Yves Lampaert’s gain in Friday’s time trial.

But Van Aert took the yellow jersey for the 1st time with a six-2nd reward for finishing second, to direct Lampaert by a single 2nd general.

“It’s a terrific pleasure for me to dress in the jersey. I have experimented with to get it a lot of times. I’m really joyful and happy,” Van Aert stated. “This is the biggest biking race in the globe so of training course I will try to protect it.”

Van Aert also has the green jersey for most effective sprinter and is Primož Roglič’s teammate on the Jumbo-Visma workforce.

“We have big ambitions,” Van Aert said.

Two-time defending champion Tadej Pogačar stayed third general and was eight seconds driving Van Aert.

Pogačar remained 9 seconds in advance of his key rival Roglič, who is eighth general. They both concluded in the main pack and did not get time off just about every other. Roglič was the Tour runner-up in 2020 and has gained the previous three Spanish Vueltas.

Immediately after the peloton crossed the huge Wonderful Belt suspension bridge, quite a few riders fell around the back of the pack with two kilometers still left to the end in Nyborg.

Van Aert seemed established to win soon after overtaking Danish hope Mads Pedersen, but Jakobsen surged past him with a good burst of speed. Pedersen concluded 3rd.

Following his shock earn, Lampaert wore yellow as riders established off on the 202 kilometers (125 miles) from the port city of Roskilde to Nyborg in central Denmark.

The get started was slightly delayed right after Tim Wellens punctured and Simon Yates experienced mechanical challenges.

Massive crowds packed the roadsides as the red-and-white wave of Danish enthusiasm ongoing.

Specifically with Danish rider Magnus Cort forming an early breakaway team, alongside with Norwegian Sven Erik Bystrøm, and Frenchmen Cyril Barthe and Pierre Rolland.

Bright sunshine included to the come to feel-superior variable, although at occasions admirers acquired much too shut to the pack as Cort and Bystrøm pulled absent from the French at the entrance.

Cort was a stage winner in 2018. Mogens Frey, the very first Dane to gain a Tour stage again in 1970, turned 81 on Saturday.

“I can’t consider how many people had been on the sides of the road cheering me on,” explained Cort, who has the polka-dot jersey for finest climber following using a few reward factors along the route’s three insignificant climbs. “I was amazed by this fervor. Cycling is a significant part of Danish society, anyone here had a bicycle rising up.”

Cort light entering the previous 40 kilometers as Bystrøm was by yourself in front, whilst Roglič and Pogačar ended up around each other in the peloton some 30 seconds driving.

In the meantime, Dutchman Martijn Tusveld, Austrian Patrick Konrad and Latvian Krists Neilands had been associated in the day’s 1st crash. Neilands crouched more than his bike in ache and appeared to have an elbow injuries.

With no 1 to aid him, Bystrøm was caught with 30 kilometers remaining. Then, Cort was amongst riders who crashed approaching the bridge and Lampaert tumbled when he was on it. He acquired again up and labored difficult to get to the peloton.

Phase 3 on Sunday is once more for sprinters. It begins from Vejle on the Jutland Peninsula and ends in Sonderborg in southern Denmark soon after 182 kilometers of flats.

Right after a travel working day, riders resume in France on Tuesday and tackle 5 small climbs on the route from the coastal town of Dunkerque to Calais.

The race finishes on July 24 in Paris.