Cadel Evans takes overall lead
Washington state's own Tyler Farrar won the closing sprint in the second stage of the Giro d'Italia on Sunday, marking his third win of 2010.
Cadel Evans grabbed the maglia rosa from UK's Bradley Wiggins, who won the Stage 1 prologue time trial on Saturday.
Farrar, 25, hails from Wenatchee. His father, Ed Farrar, is an orthopedic surgeon in that central Washington city who is battling back from a life-threatening head-on bike crash versus an automobile one morning in 2008. [ESPN.com writes about Ed Farrar.]
That same fortitude that keeps his father from giving up helped propel his son forward in Sunday's stage after he went down in one of the many crashes that marred the final miles of the second stage.
Farrar is quoted at CyclingNews:
“It's always nervous on the first few day of a Grand Tour. Everyone is working off the cobwebs I guess and fighting to be near the front even when it's not really necessary. But that's just the way it goes. Anytime you race in Holland you have a lot of things in the road. Everyone knows it's like that and when you have a nervous peloton, it adds to [the danger] a little bit. I hope nobody was hurt too badly in the crashes.”
Farrar is a member of the US-based Garmin-Transitions cycling team at the Giro. Other members include David Millar and Christian Vande Velde.
On Sunday, Wiggins from Team Sky finished 37 seconds behind Farrar and dropped out of the race lead as Evans finished just 3 seconds behind the lead group.
After opening this year's Giro in Amsterdam, the peloton raced 130 miles from Amsterdam to Utrecht on Sunday. Monday's stage from Amsterdam to Middelburg is the last before the peloton takes a day off on Tuesday and heads to Italy to resume racing on Wednesday.
1 Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team
2 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin – Transitions, 1 second behind
3 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Astana , 3 seconds
4 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Saxo Bank
5 David Millar (GBr) Garmin – Transitions, 4 seconds
6 Jos Van Emden (Ned) Rabobank , 7 seconds
7 Vincenzo Nibali (Ita) Liquigas-Doimo, 8 seconds
8 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Rabobank, 9 seconds
9 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team HTC – Columbia, 10 seconds
10 Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Team HTC – Columbia, 13 seconds
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