You wouldn’t know it from the end result but for Ally Wollaston (FDJ United-SUEZ) Sunday’s stage 2 of the Santos Women’s Tour Down Under was a “bloody tough” day on the bike.
The rider from New Zealand who had laid down a dominant sprint on Saturday’s stage 1 wasn’t exactly enjoying her day in the ochre leader’s jersey on Sunday, as temperatures rose to the mid-30’s on a hard fought 130.7 km stage with 2,411m of elevation gain.
That, however, was no small task on a stage where the attacks kept rolling. The last one to go was particularly threatening, with a grouping of Chloé Dygert (Canyon-SRAM-Zondacrypto), Mireia Benito (AG Insurance-Soudal), Julia Kopecky (SD Worx-Protime) Loes Adegeest (Lidl-Trek) and Sarah Van Dam (Visma-Lease a Bike) forming a dangerous move.
The move was caught in the final kilometre, allowing Wollaston to capture victory in the sprint, winning by a…
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