Olav Kooij made it back-to-back wins by edging a dramatic sprint finish on stage two of the Tour of Britain in Wrexham.
The Dutchman was led home at the end of a winding, undulating final few kilometres by Jumbo-Visma teammate Wout van Aert to repeat his victory on Sunday’s opening stage in Manchester. Van Aert finished third behind Danny van Poppel, whose Bora-Hansgrohe colleague, Sam Bennett, was fourth.
“We went again for another win today – we took control and tried to catch the break which took a huge effort by two of our guys,” Kooij said. “We went into the last kilometre in a really good position again and were able to take the second win.”
“We came here for stages and a possible GC (bid) with Wout, so we are really happy and hopefully we can continue like this,” he added. “We’ll see if we can control the other days, or change it up a bit and see what we can do looking forward to GC, so there’s plenty more chances to come, I guess.”
The Tour’s shortest stage, a 110km loop starting and ending in Wrexham, was marred by Tobias Lund Andresen’s heavy fall as the leaders wound up for the finish. The Danish DSM rider crashed to the ground as he tried to get on the outside of Kooij, who held his line and went on to extend his lead at the top of the general classification.
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