Viviani sprints to Giro d’Italia stage two win as Dennis takes pink

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Elia Viviani giro 2018 stage 2 tel aviv

Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors) was the strongest in the chaotic stage 2 sprint finish in Tel Aviv at the Giro d’Italia. The Italian lost his lead-out train but played it cool to beat Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina) and Sam Bennett (Bora-hansgrohe).

Rohan Dennis (BMC) made up for his disappointment in losing Friday’s opening time trial by two seconds to Tom Dumoulin by winning the second intermediate sprint and moving one second clear of the Dutchman in the general classification

Enrico Barbin, of Bardiani–CSF, was the first to the summit in the solitary climb in the second stage to clinch the blue jersey in Tel Aviv.

Viviani was well off the pace with less than two kilometers to go but the Italian powered home to win comfortably ahead of Mareczko and Bennett.

“It wasn’t easy to win. I’m usually calm but it wasn’t easy to do well after a good start to season but then a stop, then starting again. I felt the pressure that I was the rider to beat,” Viviani said.

“It was difficult to stay together in the finale, so I used the team to keep the speed high. Then I got on Bennett’s wheel. The others hesitated but I knew somebody would do something and was ready. When Mareczko I got on him and then did my sprint. It was important to read it right.”

Giro d’Italia 2018 – stage 2 results (Haifa – Tel Aviv):

1Elia Viviani (Quick-Step Floors)

3:51:20

2Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia)

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3Sam Bennett (Bora-hansgrohe)

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4Niccolo Bonifazio (Bahrain-Merida)

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5Sacha Modolo (EF Education First-Drapac)

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6Clement Venturini (AG2R La Mondiale)

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7Ryan Gibbons (Dimension Data)

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8Manuel Belletti (Androni-Sidermec-Bottecchia)

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9Baptiste Planckaert (Katusha-Alpecin)

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10Jean-Pierre Drucker (BMC)

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11Mads Pedersen (Trek-Segafredo)

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12Kristian Sbaragli (Israel Cycling Academy)

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13Paolo Simion (Bardiani-CSF)

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14Viacheslav Kuznetsov (Katusha-Alpecin)

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15Danny Van Poppel (LottoNl-Jumbo)

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16Alex Dowsett (Katusha – Alpecin)

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17Nico Denz (AG2R La Mondiale)

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18Mads Würtz Schmidt (Katusha – Alpecin)

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19Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb)

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20Zakkari Dempster (Israel Cycling Academy)

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General classification after stage 2:

1Rohan Dennis (BMC)

4:03:21

2Tom Dumoulin (Team Sunweb)

+02”

3Victor Campenaerts (Lotto Soudal)

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4José Gonçalves (Katusha-Alpecin)

+12”

5Alex Dowsett (Katusha-Alpecin)

+16”

6Pello Bilbao (Astana)

+18”

7Simon Yates (Mitchelton-Scott)

+20”

8Maximilian Schachmann (Quick-Step Floors)

+21”

9Tony Martin (Katusha-Alpecin)

+27”

10Domenico Pozzovivo (Bahrain-Merida)

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11Carlos Betancur (Movistar)

+28”

12Valerio Conti (UAE Team Emirates)

+29”

13Mads Würtz Schmidt (Katusha-Alpecin)

+30”

14Felix Grossschartner (Bora-hansgrohe)

+31”

15Tim Wellens (Lotto Soudal)

+32”

16Thibaut Pinot (Groupama-FDJ)

+33”

17Tom Scully (EF Education First-Drapac)

+34”

18Patrick Konrad (Bora-hansgrohe)

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19Georg Preidler (Groupama-FDJ)

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20Rémi Cavagna (Quick-Step Floors)

+35”

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