After a day of hard rain and dense fog in the hills of the Basque country, the winner of Stage Two of the Tour of Basque Country didn’t come from the breakaway, which was swept up with 13.3 km to go and it wasn’t one of the sprint specialists.
While rolleurs are suffering the cold and cobbles of the One-Day Classics in northern France and Belgium, climbers get to compete in the Tour of the Basque Country in southern France and Northern Spain.