Benjamin Giraud of VC la Pomme sprints to victory at the end of stage two of the Tour of Taiwan today.
The Irish duo of Martyn Irvine and Stephen Clancy both finished safely in the bunch today on stage two of the Tour of Taiwan.
A large escape group finished almost five minutes clear at the end of the 152km stage in TaoYuan County.
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The peloton gave up the chase in the face of 75kph winds on the finishing circuit around the local military airport.
The lead group contained no less than four of the French VC La Pomme outfit and the squad provided the day’s winner as Frenchman Benjamin Giraud outsprinted Jan Dietteren of Team Stolting and Italian Marco Zanotti of the Park Hotel Valkenburg continental team.
Some clever riding however saw former FDJ rider Remi Di Gregorio of VC La Pomme take over as race leader after he took some intermediate time bonuses.
Di Gregorio now leads the race by two seconds from teammate Giraud with Clancy (Novo Nordisk) and Irvine (United Healthcare) now in 60th and 83rd place respectively, both five minutes and eight seconds down.
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