Deutschland Tour stage 1, Renewi Tour: stage 2, Tour of Britain

 

Louis Barre (Visma Lease a bike) has won stage one of the Deutschland Tour, attacking with five kilometres to go, after which Barre soloed to victory. The 26-year-old Frenchman also takes over the lead in the GC.

“Fortunately, I was able to carry my good form from the Tour of Poland into this race. I felt really good today. The plan was to go for the bonus seconds, but with the gap I had, I decided to give it everything until the finish. To be able to win in such a strong field makes me very happy. I’m going to give everything over the coming days to ride for the strongest possible position in the general classification.”

-Louis Barre

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“The team managed me well, and we could do a good sprint - I could time my sprint perfectly. It’s always nice when the competition is high, it’s good for the confidence. It’s very difficult to take a stage win with all the strong sprinters here, so I’m happy to take the win today.”

-Jasper Philipsen takes the race lead with victory on stage 2. 

“Today was also quite a hard finish because it was pretty much straight until the finish with 10 km to go. So then there’s also a bigger risk of getting boxed in. That’s why I started the sprint a bit early - because I was a bit afraid to get boxed in, but it was enough. So then I’m happy with it, because it was quite a lot of headwind into the finish.”

-Lorena Wiebes sprinted to her second consecutive victory on stage 2 at the Tour of Britain.