
The look on Letizia Paternoster's face when she learned she had seized the lead of La Vuelta Femenina on stage 2 said it all - surprise, joy, disbelief.
The Italian sprinted to second place behind Marianne Vos (Visma-Lease a Bike) in the wet, technical run-in to the finish of the 99-kilometre stage to Sant Boi de Llobregat, but Paternoster was unaware that overnight leader Ellen van Dijk (Lidl-Trek) wasn't in the leading peloton.