Stage 2

The road

At the start

A team time trial through Brussels

Mike Teunissen's bike-throw made him the unlikeliest yellow jersey in years — a lead-out man standing in for his crashed sprinter, four seconds up on Peter Sagan. Today the classification gets its first real shove: 27 kilometres of team time trial through the city, long straights, few corners, the kind of course where a minute goes missing. Deceuninck-QuickStep, racing at home, should be the team to beat.

How it was won

1. 17 km to go

   Jumbo smash the checkpoints

   Last team off, Jumbo-Visma tear through the splits fifteen seconds up on Katusha's mark, leaving Ineos to sweat out the afternoon in the hot seat.

2. 2At the line

   Jumbo win the TTT

   Jumbo-Visma take the team time trial by twenty seconds over Ineos to make it two from two, keeping Teunissen in yellow.

The result