South African Daryl Impey has finished 14th in the bunch sprint on a wet and miserable stage two of the Tour des Fjords in Norway this afternoon. After his efforts against adversity for third place on yesterday’s opening stage, Impey’s efforts in today’s finale see him sitting 5th overall, 16seconds behind Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha) who took his second consecutive victory today.
“It was just an epic, epic day weather wise today,” sport director Matt Wilson said.
“It started raining about 20km in and it didn’t stop all day. It started at nine degrees and dropped to seven or eight for most of the stage. The guys just couldn’t put on enough clothes and really it was just a day of survival.
Wilson said that despite Mother Nature’s challenges, the most important thing was that Impey didn’t lose any time.
“Weather like today changes the whole race,” Wilson explained.
“80% of the field is just surviving and not even thinking about trying to attack or go for a result. They are heavy from layers of wet clothes, cold and vision is impacted.
"On a positive note we had no incidents today, everyone got through OK and Daryl didn’t lose any time so we live to fight for another day tomorrow.”
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