Refresh
Beyond these categorized difficulties, the highway dips and rises for a lot of the day, resulting in a complete altitude acquire of two,400m. Nothing comes straightforward for the sprinters on the Tour de Suisse, in different phrases. Most of them are right here, thoughts, to place the ending touches to their Tour de France preparation, and a stage win can be an added bonus.
The roll-out right now is at 12.45 CET, with the peloton because of hit kilometre zero at 12.51. After setting out from Vaduz, the race leaves Liechtenstein and crosses into Switzerland forward of the primary climb of the day, the class 2 Kerenzerberg (5.8km at 4.6%), which comes after 42km. The class 2 Ricken (6.1km at 5.8%) follows after 74km, whereas the sting within the tail is offered by the class 3 Regensberg (3.5km at 5.7%), whose summit comes simply over 10km from the end.
Yves Lampaert (Soudal-QuickStep) powered to victory within the brief opening time trial in Vaduz yesterday, placing the Belgian within the first yellow jersey of the race. He beat Stefan Bissegger (EF Education-EasyPost) and Ethan Hayter (Ineos) by three seconds, with João Almeida (UAE Team Emirates) the most effective of the GC males in fourth.
Stage 1 outcome
Welcome to dwell protection of stage 2 of the Tour de Suisse, 177.3km from Vaduz to Regensdorf. This is notionally one among two possible alternatives for the sprinters on this yr’s route, even when, as ever on the Tour de Suisse, they must endure some rugged terrain earlier than the end line in Regensdorf. The late class 3 climb of Regensberg would be the key impediment between the quick males and stage victory.