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The breakaway at the Tour of Britain a little earlier on today's stage 2, featuring Nicolas Roche, Conor Dunne and Ryan Mullen.
With the Tour of Britain having ended in a bunch sprint yesterday and seen all five Irish riders finish in that peloton, three of the Irish are clear in a break on today’s stage 2.
Nicolas Roche (Team Sky), Conor Dunne (JLT Condor) and Ryan Mullen (Cannondale Drapac) were clear in a large breakaway on 188.2km road from Carlisle to Kendal.
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The stage is in the Lake District so there’s plenty of climbing and may just be one for the strongest men in a breakaway to steal a march on others who fancy their chances overall.
Dan Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) and Damien Shaw (An Post-Chainreaction) are also in the race.
At the time of writing – lunchtime on Monday – the breakaway already have 5 minutes on the main bunch.
The 15-man move had built a lead of over five minutes through it was down to 2:30 as the bunch got organised, clearly determined not to let things get out of hand.
We’ll have a full report later.
