US EditionTour de France: Van der Poel holds off Pogačar to win rainy stage 2
- On July 6, 2025, Mathieu van der Poel claimed victory in the challenging second stage of the Tour de France, finishing first in Boulogne-sur-Mer, France.
- The stage was delayed 15 minutes due to team buses arriving late from heavy morning rain, and Team Cofidis faced an overnight theft of 11 bikes before it started.
- Van der Poel, aged 30 and born in Belgium, edged out defending champion Tadej Pogacar in a sprint after a 209.1-kilometer race that ended with a group finish.
- Van der Poel completed the race in just under four hours and forty-six minutes, describing the finale as extremely challenging and tougher than he had expected. Pogacar admitted that Mathieu had the edge in the final sprint.
- Van der Poel took the yellow jersey from teammate Jasper Philipsen and leads Pogacar by four seconds with implications for the overall standings into the race ending July 27 in Paris.
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The second stage of the Tour de France is behind us, in which we saw the main protagonists for the overall victory, Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard, in action for the first time. The Slovenian even took two seconds off the Dane at the finish.
Former World Champion Mathieu van der Poel won the second stage of the Tour de France and won the yellow jersey. Dutch classic specialist won after 209.1 kilometres from Lauwin-Planque to Boulogne-sur-Mer ahead of defending champions Tadej Pogacar and Jonas Vingegaard.
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Second day in the Hauts-de-France, and second stage of madness. The third stage? Van der Poel, winner of his second stage, ahead of Pogacar and Vingegaard!
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