In the second stage of the Slovakian stage race, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike troops once again made it a tough race. In the run-up to the second climb, the pace was significantly increased, after which Lemmen saw his chance to attack. The 29-year-old Dutchman was joined by Paul Double and the duo soon caught up with the race leaders.<\/p>\n
On the climbs that followed, Lemmen and Double distanced themselves from the early breakaway riders. The duo built up a maximum lead of fifty seconds, but Soudal Quick-Step ensured that everything came together. In the final sprint, Paul Magnier once again proved to be the fastest. Behrens sprinted to seventh place.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second stage of the Slovakian stage race, the Team Visma | Lease a Bike troops once…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[81248,49,48,635,81249,82,81247],"class_list":["post-154133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-but-was-unable-to-stay-ahead-of-the-charging-peloton-in-the-bunch-sprint","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-niklas-behrens-took-seventh-place","tag-sports","tag-team-visma-lease-a-bike-once-again-opted-for-the-attack-in-the-second-stage-of-the-tour-of-slovakia-bart-lemmen-was-part-of-the-leading-group-in-the-final"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}