Highlights - Stage 2 - #LaVueltaFemenina by Carrefour.es 2023 - Vídeo Dailymotion

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00:00 Now we have attacks.

00:12 Welcome to stage two of La Vuelta a Femenina.

00:16 After Jumbo Visma took a narrow victory in yesterday's team time trial, putting Anna

00:20 Henderson into red and her team mates into the other distinctive jerseys, it's time for

00:25 the sprinters to stretch their legs.

00:27 The Pia's had a chance to recharge their batteries before this 105km pedal from Arejuela to Pilar

00:33 de la Horadada.

00:34 There's only one climb on the menu, although parts of it are steeper than the profile would

00:38 suggest.

00:39 It tops out with just over 19km to go, so that's where a strong rider could have a go

00:44 if they wanted to catch out the sprinters.

00:51 It was a pretty hectic start to the day's action, with plenty of attacks and even a few

00:55 crashes, although they came before the live pictures.

00:58 Four riders eventually snuck away.

01:00 Coralie Demay, Catalina Soto, Urani Blanco and Andrea Casagrande, the youngest rider

01:06 in the race at just 18 years of age.

01:09 But the peloton were giving them very little rope.

01:11 There were also a few nerves in this main bunch, not just because of the early crashes,

01:15 but also due to a slight crosswind.

01:18 The gap coming right down as Demay and Blanco pushed on together, leaving Soto and Casagrande

01:23 to be swallowed up by the peloton.

01:27 The main world teams now coming to the front of the bunch to assert their control and keeping

01:31 those two escapees in their sights.

01:34 They made the catch just before the town of Torremendo, home to a particularly nasty hairpin

01:39 turn.

01:40 Here we are, this is that 180 degree turn.

01:44 Hit the brakes.

01:45 No, and of course we do have that crash.

01:48 Look at the kerbstones there, they're pretty high.

01:52 We have a really big crash here.

01:56 Plenty of riders going to ground, but luckily nobody appeared to have suffered any major

02:00 damage.

02:01 The UAE leader Sylvia Persico was caught up in it, but she got back to the pack with the

02:05 help of her team mate Carolina Cunhaga.

02:09 Next up was the intermediate sprint with six, four and two seconds available to the first

02:13 three ladies over the line.

02:16 Plenty of interested parties then, and it was Femke Markus who got there just ahead

02:19 of her sister Rihanna, followed by the returning Chloe Digerts.

02:23 Rihanna Markus taking over from her team mate Henderson as the new virtual race leader.

02:29 The riders hitting the Puerto de Rabate in its deceptive average gradient of just 1.2

02:34 percent.

02:35 It probably felt like much more than that when Kasia Nowiewia-Doma started piling on

02:38 the pressure.

02:40 The pole from Canyon SRAM doing some serious damage in this front group, but she couldn't

02:44 shift Mariana Vos or Charlotte Cole, two of the big sprint favourites.

02:49 It all came back together then after the summit, everything set for a shootout in Pirat de

02:53 la Horadada.

02:54 And the sprint is starting.

02:57 Rihanna Markus getting to the front there.

02:59 On her wheel is Anna Henderson.

03:01 That is Persico.

03:02 And this is a really interesting attack.

03:04 Is this Chloe Digerts?

03:06 It is indeed Chloe Digerts.

03:08 What a comeback that would be for Chloe Digerts.

03:11 She has to keep on pedalling.

03:13 She's got 100 metres to go.

03:14 She has Mariana Vos going past her.

03:16 And also Charlotte Cole, Mariana Vos or Charlotte Cole.

03:19 Is it going to be Mariana Vos?

03:20 It's going to be Charlotte Cole in the win.

03:23 Mariana Vos in second place, meaning that she is now the... she's not the virtual leader.

03:29 She leads the race.

03:31 Charlotte Cole taking her first Grand Tour stage victory in some style, powering to the

03:36 line ahead of Vos and a resurgent Digerts.

03:39 The 23-year-old has really stepped out of Lorena Wiebes' shadow since Wiebes left the

03:43 CSM for SD Works this season.

03:46 The former speed skater already has three wins this year and she is targeting another

03:50 one tomorrow.

03:52 This is my first big win in a Grand Tour.

03:55 So really nice to do it on the second real opportunity.

03:59 The first opportunity with the second stage.

04:01 It was a hectic final and we knew that.

04:04 So yeah, I was almost booked in but luckily I found the right wheel in the end.

04:09 And it was a really, really long sprint.

04:14 SK made it a really, really long sprint.

04:15 So yeah, it was a hard one.

04:17 Somewhere it was even more flat.

04:19 So let's go.

04:21 Cole taking it ahead of Vos and Digert, who's back on the road after a 14-month absence

04:25 due to various health problems.

04:27 Blanca Vos and Raquel Barbieri rounding out the top five.

04:31 With six bonus seconds at the finish, Vos takes over from Henderson as the race leader.

04:36 But the gaps are still insignificant, only 15 seconds separating the top ten.

04:42 Cole picked up 50 points for her sprint win, so she leads the green jersey standings ahead

04:46 of Digert and Vos.

04:49 And France's Jade Ville is the first queen of the mountains after picking up three points

04:53 on the Poitou de Rabaté.

04:55 As Cole said, it should be another sprint tomorrow on an even flatter day to La Roda.

05:00 So do join us then and thanks for watching.

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