\u201cI came alongside Van den Bergh with 150 meters to go, but I just couldn\u2019t get past him. It feels good to be back fighting for the win. After two broken collarbones, it has been a long and difficult road back. To immediately have the trust of the team again and to see everyone working so hard for me means a lot and gives me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season.\u201d<\/p>\n
The second-place finish was also the result of strong teamwork in the finale, according to sports director Ga\u00ebtan Pons. \u201cAfter our good result yesterday, it gave us a lot of confidence as a team heading into today\u2019s stage. Per\u2019s lead-out was perfect and Timo rode a great sprint. This is his best result of the year, so we can be happy with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a second-place finish under their belt, the team now looks ahead to the next stage with confidence. The so-called queen stage features plenty of climbing, narrow roads and a challenging finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI came alongside Van den Bergh with 150 meters to go, but I just couldn\u2019t get past him.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":896277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85,465446,465445],"class_list":["post-896276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-the-belgian-was-beaten-only-by-marijn-van-den-bergh-in-a-close-fought-finale","tag-timo-kielich-finished-second-in-stage-two-of-the-tour-de-luxembourg-in-junglinster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=896276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/896276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/896277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=896276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=896276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=896276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}