{"id":171012,"date":"2025-06-09T19:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171012\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T19:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T19:18:09","slug":"criterium-du-dauphine-jonathan-milan-wins-stage-two-to-claim-yellow-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/171012\/","title":{"rendered":"Criterium du Dauphine: Jonathan Milan wins stage two to claim yellow jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jonathan Milan won stage two of the Criterium du Dauphine with a sprint finish in<\/b> <\/b>Issoire.<\/b><\/p>\n

Lidl-Trek’s lead-out train hit the front during the final kilometre of the 204.6km ride from Premilhat, and they left Milan alone with 150m remaining.<\/p>\n

This year’s Milan-San Remo and Paris-Roubaix winner Mathieu van der Poel then fought hard to catch Milan.<\/p>\n

But the Italian held on to clinch his first road race win in France, with British rider Fred Wright edging out Van der Poel for second.<\/p>\n

Milan also claimed the yellow jersey from reigning Tour de France and Giro d’Italia champion Tadej Pogacar, who won the opening stage<\/a> on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“It was really tough,” said Milan, 24. “Yesterday and today, I suffered a lot.<\/p>\n

“At one point I was really on the limit, but I have to say thanks to my team-mates because they brought me back.<\/p>\n

“We knew we had to take the last corner at the front, and it was just a perfect lead-out. I’m really happy because this means a lot to all of us.”<\/p>\n

Local rider Romain Bardet, who is competing in his last professional race, attacked on the final categorised climb of the day and built a 20-second lead.<\/p>\n

But Bardet did not get any support in the breakaway so the peloton soon closed the gap, with Lidl Trek putting Milan in a prime position during the finish.<\/p>\n

Stage three will begin in the 34-year-old Bardet’s hometown of Brioude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jonathan Milan won stage two of the Criterium du Dauphine with a sprint finish in Issoire. Lidl-Trek’s lead-out…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4104],"tags":[4230,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-171012","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114655022518046950","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}