"Short today but a chance to blow out the sprint motors, so tomorrow with the longer stage will be much sweeter."
Those were the words of Astana's Andrea Guardini after stage one at the Tour de Pologne. Guardini finished in seventh overall on Sunday on a short stage in the heart of Poland's capital city in front of tens of thousands of fans for a meticuolously curving final road carousel before an abrupt mass sprint.
The sprinter from Italy's thighboot Veneto region returns to active racing after a multi-month pause ending recently with a multi-day training camp at Passo San Pellegrino in the Dolomites of Trentino.
For the Warszawa sprint, stage winner and new race leader Marcel Kittel of Germany led a group that also included Alexey Lutsenko, returning after a stage win at the Tour de Suisse .
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