{"id":145952,"date":"2025-09-18T19:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145952\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T19:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T19:39:11","slug":"tour-of-slovakia-paul-magnier-doubles-up-with-stage-2-sprint-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145952\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour of Slovakia: Paul Magnier doubles up with stage 2 sprint win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"b436628c-88dd-46ea-bad5-c02c16b7642a\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/paul-magnier\/\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.cyclingnews.com\/riders\/paul-magnier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Magnier<\/a> (Soudal-QuickStep) took his second win in two days on stage 2 of the Tour of Slovakia, once again proving the quickest finisher in a concluding bunch sprint at the race.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman beat out Luka\u0161 Kubi\u0161 (Unibet Tietema Rockets) and Milan Menten (Lotto) to the line in Ko\u0161ice after his Soudal-QuickStep teammates provided the final lead-out.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"b436628c-88dd-46ea-bad5-c02c16b7642a-2\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\">The mass sprint finish came at the end of the 169.4km stage from Svidnik, with late attackers Paul Double (Jayco-AlUla) and Bart Lemmen (Visma-Lease A Bike) caught 16km from the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>You may like<\/p>\n<p>Magnier&#8217;s win, his eighth of the season, sees him extend his overall lead after two stages of the five-day race. He leads Kubi\u0161 by eight seconds, while Menten lies third overall at 16 seconds down.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-results\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/>Results<\/p>\n<p id=\"914956b0-bff6-4868-81f7-83be9f27e9d4\">Results powered by <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-url=\"https:\/\/firstcycling.com\/\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\">FirstCycling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a id=\"elk-a35176f0-337c-4528-bb7e-6afb43f531fd\" class=\"paywall\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">The latest race content, interviews, features, reviews and expert buying guides, direct to your inbox!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Magnier (Soudal-QuickStep) took his second win in two days on stage 2 of the Tour of Slovakia,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-145952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-cycling","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}