{"id":44996,"date":"2015-07-06T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/?p=44996"},"modified":"2015-07-06T11:02:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T09:02:19","slug":"fabian-cancellara-wears-yellow-jersey-into-third-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/wide\/2015\/07\/06\/fabian-cancellara-wears-yellow-jersey-into-third-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabian Cancellara wears Yellow Jersey into third stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The opening weekend and Grand D\u00e9part of the 2015 Tour de France is behind us and it\u2019s time to quickly summarise what happened. In case you missed the first two stages, this overview will keep you in the picture.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>Australian Rohan Dennis won the first time trial stage<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Hundreds of thousands of visitors on the opening stage in Utrecht<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>German Andre Greipel won the second stage and Swiss Fabian Cancellara took the yellow jersey<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Heavy rain and strong winds made the second stage extremely demanding<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Stage 1<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Utrecht, 13,8 km (individual time trial)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first stage of the Tour took place in the Netherlands. The race started and stayed in Utrecht for the opening individual time trial stage of 13,8 km length. It was a great opening in the city of 328 000 inhabitants visited by almost half a million spectators.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251867615.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45001\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251867615-600x420.jpg\" alt=\"Tour de France 2015 1st stage spectators\" width=\"600\" height=\"420\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australian Rohan Dennis won the opening time trial of the 2015 Tour de France in Utrecht to wear the coveted Yellow Jersey of race leader. Dennis\u2019s time could not be beaten by Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara, and the Australian established a new record for a Tour time trial average speed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251928277.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45002\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251928277-600x399.jpg\" alt=\"Australian Rohan Dennis wearing the yellow jersey \" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All overall favorites stayed behind. Vincenzo Nibali placed ahead of overall stars Chris Froome, Alberto Contador and Nairo Quintana.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Stage 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Utrecht &#8211; Zeeland, 166 km<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The stage headed out of Utrecht to the peninsulas and islands of Zeeland. Most of the roads of the stage were under the sea level. It was the last day on the Dutch soil. Heavy rain, strong wind and weather changes prepared very hard conditions for the peloton.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251942584.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-45003\" src=\"https:\/\/d2p6e6u75xmxt8.cloudfront.net\/2\/2015\/07\/profimedia-0251942584-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Tour de France 2015 2nd stage\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201dGerman Gorilla\u201d Andr\u00e9 Greipel from Rostock (7th stage win in career, first in 2011) won, followed by Slovak Peter Sagan and Fabien Cancellara. Marc Cavendish didn\u2019t have enough power in the end to make it on the podium. Chris Froome on the seventh place gained significant time on his Tour de France rivals Alberto Contador in 13th and one minute 28 seconds ahead of Vincenzo Nibali and Nairo Quintana.<\/p>\n<p>Third stage leads into Belgium before entering France for the first time on the stage four.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever wondered how such a big event as TdF is organised? We\u2019ve prepared a little overview \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welovecycling.com\/blog\/44786\/tour-de-france-by-the-numbers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tour de France organization by numbers<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opening weekend and Grand D\u00e9part of the 2015 Tour de France is behind us and it\u2019s time to quickly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":44998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[329],"tags":[],"global-categories":[],"class_list":["post-44996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-road-cycling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.3 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fabian Cancellara wears Yellow Jersey into third stage - \u0160koda We Love Cycling<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The opening weekend of the 2015 Tour de France is behind us. 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