Pablo sprints to second in Suisse

Pablo showed his great state of form by sprinting to second place behind Heinrich Haussler on today's second stage of the Tour de Suisse. The slightly hilly nature of the course resulted in a 66-man peloton arriving together to sprint it out for the win, a sprint in which Pablo, to his great credit, beat riders like Ciolek, Freire and Rojas to take an impressive second. Pablo has really stepped it up a notch this year. Look out for him in the remaining stages. Jonathan, Javier and JJ all made it in with that first big group, meaning the former now occupies ninth place on GC. Aitor Hernández spent the day out front in the break and secured the mountains jersey, so surely a good day all over for the team. Aitor and Daniel reached the line 3:09 down eventually, while Amets came in a worryingly 5:33 down, while Koldo found the going too tough and condeded 10:57. Pablo was naturally a bit down after the stage, saying: "To win a Pro Tour race would have been awesome. (...) It's a shame..." But he also managed to look on the bright side, saying: "But I feel good, now I'll try to recover as best I can facing the rest of the race."