Russian Yury Trofimov won stage two of the Tour of the Basque Country after a 130 km breakaway on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The Bbox-Bouyges Telecom rider shed his last breakaway companion, Estonian Rein Taaramae, 2.5 km from the line for his first win of the season. British rider Ben Swift was third.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to try to win this in a sprint against another rider because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not good at it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Trofimov.<\/p>\n
\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d worked together with two other riders in a break for most of the day. Finally, I dropped Taaramae on a climb before the finish and then again close to the line.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00c2\u00a0 …\u00c2\u00a0 Details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Russian Yury Trofimov won stage two of the Tour of the Basque Country after a 130 km breakaway on Tuesday. The Bbox-Bouyges Telecom rider shed his last breakaway companion, Estonian Rein Taaramae, 2.5 km from the line for his first win of the season. British rider Ben Swift was third. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to try […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7892,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7891\/revisions\/7892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}