Welcome to Cyclingnews' live coverage of stage 2 of the 澳洲幸运5开奖官网在线查询开奖结果:Women's Tour Down Under.

Stage 1 winner Ally Wollaston (AG Insurance-Soudal) tops the general classification with a 2-second lead on Georgia Baker (Liv AlUla Jayco) and 6 seconds on Sofi🌞a Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ). A total of 51 riders are separated by 10 seconds or less on GC.

Stage 2 of the Women's Tour Down Under is sꦿet to start in 🍨just under five minutes. At 104.2km long today’s stage is the longest in the history of the race. The route from Glenelg to Stirling will deliver lumpy terrain with 2079m of climbing with an uphill kick before the line.

Today is pred♒icted to be a stage where the GC riders need to stay wary, but the GC will likely come down to the final stage. As cliched as it may sound, it's not a day where the race is likely to be won, it's a day where it could be lost. 

The riders are rolling through 8.1km neutral section on their way to the official start. A bit cooler today with a ꧅forecast high of 31 degrees Celsius under cloudy skies, but wind could be a factor today, with possible gusts of ꦺ30 to 50 km/h predicted.

2020 overall winner Ruth Edwards won a stage with a similar finish in Stirling. We don’t know how I’m going to do and that’s kind of fun’ she said on Women’s Tour Down Under on return from retirement to Cyclingnews’ Australia editor Simone Giuliani.  Read more in Women's Tour Down Under reboot begins for Ru𒅌th Edwardꦐs

Crash in neutral. Amanda Poulsen (BridgeLa🍷ne) who was alread🌳y sporting bandages from a crash yesterday, and Kimberley Le Court De Billot (AG Insurance-Soudal) were involved. 

Bike change for Lil💎lee Pollock (BridgeLane) while still in neutral section. Official start is delayed until all riders have caught back to the peloton.

Flag drop by race director Stuart O’Grady and we're out of the neutral zone and racingꦛ has started! 

The first challengeꦛ comes early, only 12km into the stage with the cat 1 climb🦹 of Cherry Gardens,  2.9km long with an average gradient of 5.9% and a max gradient of 15.6%. 

Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health) took the full 10 QOM points available while 🌠in the break on stage 1. Will she defend her QOM leader’s jersey? We will know very soon.

Visma-Lease a Bike upping the pace at the front, fighting with Lidl-Trek for control, ho🐽ping to split the race in the cross headwind.

Sarah Roy (Australian Nationa♑l Team) crashes over the traffic island while trying to avoid riders breaking in front of her. She is quickly back on her bike and trying to catch back onto the field.

Big f🐓ight for position as the peloton with 5km to go to tꦦhe first QOM with 10 points on offer.

93km to go

Teams fighting f▨or position at the front on the first climb of the day with riders dropping off t🐬he back under pressure from the pace.

Lily Williams leads out her teammate Ragusa who sprints out ⛄of the saddle with 200 meters to go to take the maximum 10 points. 

Riders speeding down the𝓡 descent at 82km/hr with dsm-firmenich PostNL at the front, striking out the peloton. Sarah Gigante (AG Insurance-Sou𒁏dal) at the back.

Peloton regroups at the bottom of the descent, surrounded by the vineyards with 83km to go. AG Insurance-Soudal at the front setting the pace for the ochre jersey, Some riders still trying to ca📖tch back on after dropping on the climb.

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Gina Ricardo (BridgeLane) takes a𝄹 solo flyer, with a few riders covering her attꦫack,

Ricardo moved up on the side of the peloton, riding on ༺tܫhe grave section to make her attack but it was to naught, as the field is back together.

70km to go

Less than 2kms to the first intermediate sprint. Teams getting organized at the front for the points, and the all-important time bonus seconds on offer.  AG Ins💎urance-Soudal moving up to the front for the ochre jersey Ally Wollaston who wants to keeo the leader's jersey after today's stage.

Another 🅰crash for Amanda Paulso﷽n (BridgeLane) who ran out of room at the road narrowed. Two teammates waited for her.

Long range battle for𒅌 the points and time bonus. Georgia Howe leading her Liv AlUla Jayco team  at the front but FDJ-SUEZ takes over🐷. They started the  sprint super early.

Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team AQD) takes the points ♊and bonus seconds on the first intermediate sprint.&n𝓀bsp;

Sensiꦡng a change in the wind direction, Visma-Lease a Bike puts the hammer down at the front. 

𝔍Field all together with 60km to go. ꦬTeams staying attentive to any change of wind direction. A few riders straggling at the back, under pressure from the high pace.

50km to go

Peloton all together, jostling for position for the  second intermediate sprint in Mylorꦡ, followed by the two-and-a-half laps of a circuit through Stirling, that takes in the final climb three times. The selection for the win will probably be made on the 2km at 3.9% climb.

UAE Team AQD with big leadout for Dominika Wlodarczyk who once again gets top points in the second intermed🌳iate sprint.

Attacks from BridgeLane, ౠfirst from Gina Ricardo and then Haylee Fuller who gets a small gap with 4🐬9km to go.

Full results of the second intermediate sprint:

1- Dominika Wlodarczyk (UAE Team AQD)

2 - Ruby Roseman-Gannon (Liv A🌜lUla Jayco) who also took second in the first intermediate 🥃sprint.

3- Lily Williams (Human Powered Health)

Haylee Fuller (BridgeLane) is off the front solo with 26 seconds lead to the�💫� peloton at 46km to go.

Heading through the finish line for the first time with 42km to go, Fuller has 24 seconds lead with so𒉰me riders from Lifeplus Wahoo, Human Pow๊ered Health and more trying to jump across.

Group of 5 coming together off the front. Joining Fuller are Emily Watts (Australia), Krista Doebel-Hickok (Human Powered Health), Ella Simpson (ARA - Slip Capital), and Karin Söderqvist (Lifeplus Wahoo). 

Meanwhile, riders falling off the pace at the back of the pelo🐲ton.

Peloton sh🔥ut down the move with 39km to go.  Lidl-Trek in the middle, all bunched around Amanda Soratt. Georgia Howe for Liv AlUla Jayco and Sarah Gigante for AG Insurance-Soud൩al at the front.

33km to go. three-time winner Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) is moving to the front. 

“It's gonna be a really tough day today. I was down here in December, reckoning here and I just think it's a really unpredictable stage. We've finished in Stirling before, but I think overall the stage is harder than what we've seen before. We have almost 2000 metres of climbing. It’s another hot day in the legs, and I think we'r🦹e gonna have a pretty reduced sprint at the end in Stirling or a breakaway,” Spratt, winner of the race from 2017 to 2019, said before the start.

Edwards is marking Spratt who ෴is sitting behind her teammate at th♋e front.  More riders under pressure are falling off the pace at the back of the field.

25km to go

The riders will soon begin their second out of three ascensions of the cat 2ಌ Stirling Climb, and this time QOM points will be on the line. Ragu🐭sa hold the QOM lead with 20 points. 

Human Powered Health's Lily Williams at the front on the clim💟b, setting the pace for Ragusa who sits in second wheel.

Ragusa🍬 easily gets top points with no one challenging her for the QOM. And Lidl-Trek attacks immediওately after the climb.

Lidl-Trek’s Brodie Chapman was brought back. Quick counter by ♏Elizabeth Stannard (Australia) but that attack is also shutdown. 

Mechanical for Audrey Cordon🦄-Ragot who calmly waits for her team car to get a new bike.

Full results of the second QOM:

1- Katia Ragusa (Human Powered Health)

2- Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-SUEZ)

3- Brodie Chapman (Lidl-Trek)

4- Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ)

Emily Watts (Australia) takes advantage of 💟a lull in the peloton and attacks with 16km to go

Watts is out of sigh🔯t of the peloton on the twis🐠ty road and gets 11 seconds. No reaction from the peloton.

Watts is driving her bike as fast a𒁃s she can and now has a 30-second lead with 13km to go and teams are lining up at the front but show no urgency with 12km to go.

10km to go

Watts has 20 seconds t𓆉o a sign🌌ificantly reduced peloton massed across the road.

Peloton reels Watꦉts back in with 8kms to go under the impetus of an attack by Franziska Koch (dsm-firmenich PostNL)

Lidl-Trek at the front setting a fa🧸st tempo, making it hard for the re๊duced field to nullify any attacks. Ilaria Sanguineti pulls out leaving Brodie Chapman to continue the fast pace.

AG Insurance-Soudal takes over the front with Liv AlUla Jayco behind them with🍷 6km🍨 to go.

Lauretta Hanson winds up t൩he pace to thin out the peloton as they get to﷽ the 5km to go. And then her teammate Chapman goes off the front.

All back together again. Uttrup Ludwig sꦰtaying attentive and moving up.

4kms to go and AG♏ Insurance-Soudal is back at the front. Ochre jersey Wollaston is barely hanging at the back.𓆉 

Field is strung under the impetus of AG Insurance-So💟udal with 3kms to go. It’s all uphill to the finish. Can they hold the pace?

Positioning starting to becꩵome critical with 2km to go. Teams moving up. 

Gigante lost all her AG Insurance-Soudal teammates at the front an🃏d Uttrup Ludwig is now third wheel.

Less than 1km to go!

Uttrup Ludwig takes the win in Stirling! 

FDJ-S♔uez' Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig took the sprint ahead of Soraya Paladin (Canyon-Sram) and Sofia Bertizzolo (UAE Team ADQ).

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) winsꦅ stage 2 from reduced uphill sprint in Stirlin𓄧g

Uttrup Ludwig takes over the ochre leꦬader's jersey with 2 seconds on Bertizzolo and 3 seconds on Roseman-Gannon. The top 19 riders on the general classification are separated by 10 seconds! 

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (FDJ-Suez) is tౠhe new race leader with one stage to go. 🐻Stage 3 with the finish on Willunga Hill will decide the overall winner.

“I’m just excited, I’ve done it a couple of times as recon and I think it’s going to be fireworks. It shꦬould be exciting,” Utᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚtrup Ludwig said of the iconic climb.