Tour of the Alps: Alessandro De Marchi blows up the early break to win stage 2

A lone attack netted Italian veteran Alessandro De Marchi (Jayco-AIUia) stage 2 of the Tour of the Alps, as Tobias Foss and his Ineos Grenadiers team kept the race lead for a second straight day despite giving up on the chase of the early break of the day. 

Alasdair Fotheringham

Alasdair Fotheringham has been reporting on cycling since 1991. He has covered every Tour de France since 1992 bar one, as well as numerous other bike races of all shapes and sizes, ranging from the Olympic Games in 2008 to the now sadly defunct Subida a Urkiola hill climb in Spain. As well as working for Cyclingnews, he has also written for The IndependentThe GuardianProCycling, The Express and Reuters.