Second at Fontenay-le-Comte behind Kittel, Peter Sagan immediately took revenge by winning the second stage of the Tour with a spectacular backstroke to overtake Sonny Colbrelli at the finish line in La Roche-sur-Yon. The Slovak champion, thanks to the game of bonuses, also conquers the yellow jersey that Kittel was unable to defend due to a puncture that put him on foot two km from the finish line, putting him out of action in the sprint.
Rainbow jersey for three years, yellow jersey since yesterday, but what Sagan is chasing in this Tour is his sixth green jersey to match Eric Zabel's record. For the leader of Bora-Hansgrohe, yesterday's success is also the best way to definitively erase the memory of Vittel, when The day after the success in Longwy he was even expelled from the Tour for having pushed Mark Cavendish to the barriers, causing him to crash to the ground which in turn overwhelmed John Degenkolb.
Unlike the opening stage, this second one didn't cause any major damage among the classification men. Froome was well protected and piloted by him, avoiding the pitfalls that the Tour hides every day. Today in the Cholet team time trial the winner of the Giro d'Italia immediately had the opportunity to recover the seconds lost in the chaotic final on Friday against Nibali, Valverde and Landa: Team Sky is among the favorites of the stage measuring 35,5 .XNUMX km together with Richie Porte's Bmc (he too lingered in the Froome tumble) and Tom Dumoulin's Sunweb.
For Nibali's Bahrain-Merida and Quintana, Valverde and Landa's Movistar it was a day to race aiming at limiting the damage. In particular, for Quintana there is the real danger of seeing his gap of more than a minute more than doubled in Fontenay-le-Comte for a bloody puncture with 3,2 km to go. For some time now, the gods of cycling seem to have really lost their liking for the little wet-winged Condor of the Andes.
