Tipperary’s Sam Bennett will again wear the leaders’ jersey on todays stage of the BinckBank Tour having taken his second stage win yesterday.
The Carrick on Suir rider was a convincing winner of stage 2 which covered 169 kilometres in the Belgian-Dutch border region.
He finished a bike length clear of his nearest challenger in the bunch sprint to extend his overall lead to 12 seconds as well as strengthening his hold on the point’s classification.
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The Bora Hansgrohe sprinter will be hoping to make it a hat trick of wins in today’s 167 kilometres 3rd stage – however he admits at one point he wasn’t confident of success yesterday.