Optum pro Carter Jones
continued his streak of impressive results in UCI races at the Tour de Beauce
by placing 3rd on the brutal stage 2 that finished on the Mont-Megantic
climb. The 167 km stage was raced mostly in the rain that added insult to
injury over the long hard day. On the final 4 km climb, remnants of the
original break of the day still had over 2 minutes in hand. The main
peloton splintered as attacks began on the lower slopes of the final climb that
averaged in the double digit grades. Jones attacked to chase down the
leaders and got a gap, but near that top, probably needed more climbing
friendly gears as the grades topped out above 19%. The 3rd place on the
stage moved him into 3rd place on GC as well.
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