Fabio Jakobsen crash

Fabio Jakobsen, selected ahead of multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish for the QuickStep team, won stage two of the 2022 Tour de France.

Even before the bridge, tensions were high with Groupama FDJ’s Stefan Küng and Ruben Guerreiro of EF Education EasyPost caught on camera in a shoving match, with Küng appearing to push Guerreiro on the head. Three kilometres later, the overnight race leader, Yves Lampaert, and his Quick-Step teammate Michael Morkov were among the fallers after another switch of wheels took down half a dozen riders. The high-speed crash he suffered was one of the worst in the history of the sport and traumatised all those at the scene. Selected ahead of the multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish, it was his first Tour stage success and completed the journey from intensive care to Tour de France podium. The much-criticised omission of Cavendish by his team manager, Patrick Lefevere, was vindicated as Jakobsen took his team’s second stage win in less than 24 hours. It’s an amazing day and I’d like to thank all the people that helped me to here.”

Find out what happened in the 202.2km-stage from Roskilde to Nyborg in Denmark on the second day in the saddle for riders at the men's Grand Tour event.

Friday 22 July: Stage 19 – Castelnau-Magnoac – Cahors (188.5km) Thursday 21 July: Stage 18 – Lourdes-Hautacam (143.5km) Wednesday 20 July: Stage 17 – Saint-Gaudens-Peyragudes (130km) Tuesday 19 July: Stage 16 – Carcassonne-Foix (178,5km) Sun 3 July: Stage 3 – Vejle-Sonderborg (182 km) Sunday 17 July: Stage 15 – Rodez-Carcassonne (202.5km)

Fabio Jakobsen (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) takes his maiden Tour de France victory on stage 2 of the Tour de France. It's a redemptive result for a variety of ...

However, most of the favourites for the stage were safe and a frantic sprint played out as expected. In the end, it wasn’t so much echelon action that spiced up the bridge, but a crash in the bunch knocked down yellow jersey Yves Lampaert and held up vital lead-out rider Michael Mørkøv (Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl) about 20 km from the finish. His 36th career victory came at the end of a nervous first road stage.

The team's non-selection of last year's green jersey winner Mark Cavendish led to plenty of pre-race polemics, but Jakobsen payed back the team's trust with his ...

They made it to the convoy with 10.7km to go and Urán safely back in the fold, albeit minus a packet of matches. The nerves led to chaos with a crash bringing down the maillot jaune with 19.3km to go. There was mayhem in the closing kilometres with a massive spill blocking the road with 2.2 kilometres to go. Nerves heading into the Great Belt Bridge spelled disaster for Rigoberto Urán, who crashed and was left behind with 21km to go. Bystrøm led Cort across the line uncontested, and just over 30 seconds later it was Caleb Ewan who led the peloton across the line, grabbing 15 points ahead of Wout van Aert's 13 and Peter Sagan's 11. I could stay behind Morkov. He dropped me in the wheel of Van Aert. In the last few hundred metres I was on the left next to Sagan, we touched but luckily we stayed upright. It took Urán another 10km to get back on but he also made it in safely. When he did drop the flag, however, the first big battle for the breakaway never materialised. The Belgian leads the Tour de France by one second over Lampaert, with defending champion Tadej Pogačar (UAE Team Emirates) in third at eight seconds. Race leader Yves Lampaert showed himself at the front as the lead-out for Jakobsen and, despite a late surge from Wout van Aert (Jumbo-Visma), Jakobsen powered past the green jersey wearer to the victory. It's an amazing day and I'd like to thank all the people that helped me to here," Jakobsen said. A lot of people helped me along the way.