Rad star Primoz Roglic from the German Bora-hansgrohe team successfully defended the overall lead in the 63rd Tour of the Basque Country on Tuesday (April 2nd, 2024).
One day after his victory in the individual time trial, the Slovenian reached the finish line in the peloton on the second stage over 160 kilometers from Irun to Cambo-les-Bains on Tuesday, keeping ahead of his two big rivals Remco Evenepoel (Belgium) and Jonas Vingegaard (Denmark). behind. The day’s victory in the sprint went to the Frenchman Paul Lapeira ahead of the Italian Samuele Battistella.
Roglic leads by ten seconds
Roglic is now ten seconds ahead of Dane Mattias Skjelmose. Time trial world champion Evenepoel, who was slowed down by a fall on Monday, and Vingegaard are in third and fourth place, eleven and 15 seconds behind. Berlin’s Maximilian Schachmann is still doing well in the race in seventh place overall.
The Basque Country tour, which ends in Eibar on Saturday, has a top-class line-up. Only the two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogacar is not among the top tour riders. On Wednesday it will be much more strenuous for the riders on the third stage. There are six mountain classifications on the 160-kilometer route from Ezpeleta to Altsusa.
