It was set to be a flat, straightforward stage - yet Stage 2 of the women's Tour de France turned out to be an exciting one on Sunday.
The lumpy roads around Lake Geneva made for an entertaining spectacle, with Riejanne Markus (Lidl-Trek) falling just 500 metres short of upsetting the sprinters’ teams, and especially one: SD Worx-Protime, fully committed to forcing a bunch gallop for Lorena Wiebes.
The Dutch sprinter was up to the task and claimed her seventh stage win in the Tour de France Femmes avec Zwift, her first one ever in the Yellow Jersey, ahead of Elisa Balsamo (Lidl-Trek) and Marianne Vos (Visma | Lease a Bike).
Wiebes is still in the overall lead, 14” ahead of Kim Le Court (AG Insurance-Soudal) and with 16” on Demi Vollering (FDJ United-Suez).
On Monday, the peloton will leave Switzerland, host of this Grand Départ, to head into France riding across the Jura mountain range in a 156.5km stage from Geneva to Poligny.