Tour de France 2023 – LIVE: a 3rd stage for sprinters? Profile and ranking

6:40 p.m. – Vasseur: “the victory is fully deserved for Victor”

Manager of the Cofidis training, Cedric Vasseur spoke about the victory of his rider Victor Lafay: “I think that the victory is fully deserved for Victor and the whole Cofidis team, the whole staff. We have been working for years on the composition of a group capable of winning the Tour de France. Yesterday we felt that Victor was already in great condition. Today, he was breathtaking, he had a date with his destiny. He boldly grasped his chance by trying to surprise the group. In the end, it’s deliverance. In addition to the green jersey, it’s a fantastic start to the Tour.”

6:30 p.m. – Pogacar: “Lafay deserves it”

Third in the stage behind Victor Lafay and Wout Van AertTadej Pogacar hailed the victory of the French at the microphone of our colleagues from France 2: “It was a good day, but a difficult stage. At the end, there were attacks on the left and on the right. We stayed ahead , Trentin fell. The team did a very good job, a little difficult. Lafay really deserves it. If there are bonuses to go and if I have the opportunity, I do it. These few seconds may not be important, but you never know.”

18:20 – Lafay new green jersey

With his victory today, Victor Lafay wins 50 points and becomes the new yellow jersey of the Tour de France 2023 ahead of Tadej Pogacar and Wout Van Aert.

6:10 p.m. – Pogacar new runner-up, the general classification

With the bonuses, the yellow jersey Adam Yates has a new dolphin: it is his teammate Tadej Pogacar who returns to six seconds.

Here is the general classification of the Tour de France 2023 after the second stage:

1. A.Yates in 9h09’18”
2. T. Pogacar at 6″
3. S.Yates at 6″
4. V.Lafay at 12″
5. W.Van Aert at 16″
6. J.Vingegaard at 17″
7. Mr. Woods at 22″
8. S. Jensen at 22″
9. J. Hindley at 22″
10. Mr. Landa at 22″

6:00 p.m. – Lafay: “doing the kilometer was a good idea”

Victorious today in San Sebastian during the second stage of the Tour de France 2023, Victor Lafay returned to the last kilometers and the attack which allowed him to win: “I said to myself “for once I will have a plan in the finale”. (…) I saw that the Jumbos had worked a lot in the finale so that’s why I said to myself that doing the kilometer trick was a good idea since they were a little started.”

17:50 – Lafay’s victory on video

The coup du kilometer: relive Victor Lafay’s victorious attack under the red flame on video.

17:40 – The Top 10 of the second stage

For this second stage of the Tour de France 2023, Victor Lafay won ahead of Wout Van Aert and Tadej Pogacar. Here are the top 10 of the stage:

1. V.Lafay
2. W.Van Aert
3. T. Pogacar
4. T.Pidcock
5. P.Bilbao
6. Mr. Jensen
7. Mr. Woods
8. R. Bardet
9. D.Teuns
10. J. Hindley

5:30 p.m. – Fifteen years that Cofidis has been waiting for it

If Victor Lafay won the second stage of the Tour de France, the Frenchman ended a 15-year drought where the Cofidis team had no longer won the Tour de France (Sylvain Chavanel in Montluçon).

17:18 – Laffay attacks!

Under the red flame, Victor Laya attacked the peloton and escaped!

17:17 – The Jumbo-Visma in the lead

Despite the various attacks from Pidcock or other riders, Wout Van Aert made sure to follow the attempts to stay in contact and aim for the stage victory.

17:15 – Three kilometers before the finish

There are still three kilometers to go before the finish of the second stage of the Tour de France 2023.

17:12 – Bilbao resumed

Peillo Bilbao will not go to the end of his attack. The Spaniard was taken over by the Jumbo-Visma formation.

17:08 – Bilbao get away

Back on Vingegaard and Pogacar with the rest of the peloton, Pello Bilbao counter-attacked to escape on the descent to San Sebastian.