Fabio Jakobsen, selected ahead of multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish for the QuickStep team, won stage two of the 2022 Tour de France
Fabio Jakobsen, who in August 2020 was in an induced coma after suffering horrendous injuries in the Tour of Poland, won stage two of the 2022ahead of Wout van Aert of Jumbo-Visma, who moved into the leader’s yellow jersey for the first time in his career.
The scale of Jakobsen’s comeback to the top of cycling cannot be overstated. Selected ahead of the multiple stage winner Mark Cavendish, it was his first Tour stage success and completed the journey from intensive care to Tour de France podium. In the chaotic finale to another wise unremarkable stage, he showed that he has lost none of the drive and fearlessness that characterises the Tour’s best sprinters, slipping through nonexistent gaps and bumping shoulders with Peter Sagan of TotalEnergies before overpowering Van Aert to take the stage. The much-criticised omission of Cavendish by his team manager, Patrick Lefevere, was vindicated as Jakobsen took his team’s second stage win in less than 24 hours.
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