Huge crash takes down yellow jersey rider Yves Lampaert at the Tour de France

An enormous crash took down yellow jersey rider Yves Lampaert on stage two of the Tour de France on Saturday.

Lampaert was a considerably shocking winner of the opening time trial on Friday, incomes himself the treasured maillot jaune. 

However, stage two didn’t go based on plan for the Belgian as he was introduced down when the main group went over the Great Belt Bridge in Denmark.

Yves Lampaert went down together with a number of different riders in an enormous crash on Saturday

Fortunately, Lampaert was capable of get again on his bike and full the stage

Quite a lot of different riders additionally hit the floor as crosswinds brought about points for the peloton. 

Lampaert regained his composure shortly, and after initially pedalling tentatively when he acquired again on his bike, he was capable of decide up his velocity once more and rejoin the important pack.

The crash additionally occurred in the last 2.5 kilometres, that means that none of the riders misplaced any time. 

Two-time winner Tadej Pogacar managed to remain out of hazard as he goes looking for a 3rd straight triumph in street biking’s largest race.

Lampaert took the yellow jersey after successful the opening time trial on Friday

The stage was gained by Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl’s Fabio Jakobsen, who held off Wout van Aert and Mads Pedersen in a dash end.

Jakobsen was given the nod over Britain’s Mark Cavendish for this 12 months’s tour, regardless of the Manx Missile holding the joint-record with Eddy Merckx for the most Tour de France stage wins.

The Dutchman is making his Tour debut lower than two years after being concerned in a horror crash at the Tour of Poland which left him combating for his life, and he repaid his workforce’s religion in him. 

Fabio Jakobsen went on to win the second stage in a dash end in Denmark