Tour of the Alps: Alessandro De Marchi blows up the early break to win stage 2

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A lone attack netted Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi (Jayco-AIUia) stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps, as Tobias Foss and his Ineos Grenadiers team kept the race lead for a second straight day despite giving up on the chase of the early break of the day. 

De Marchi, a three-time Vuelta a España stage winner and 2021 Giro d’Italia leader,
powered away from closest pursuer and breakaway companion Simon Pellaud (Tudor ProCycling) on the main climbing challenge of the 190-kilometre stage, the cat.2 Gnadenwald.