It was a case of 'close but no cigar' on two counts for plucky Brit Oliver Stockwell on stage two of the Tour of the Alps. The instigator of the day's early break, the Bahrain Victorious rider lasted out front until halfway up the steep final climb to Martell before finally admitting defeat as the peloton bore down.
Along the way he also hoovered up the mountains points, placing second over the big cat-one climb of Piller Hohe and then first over the cat-three Reschenpass. By the day's end he'd moved up to third place in the mountains classification.
