page_title: 2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11
section_title: Stage 2
hierarchical_section_title: 2013 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11 / Stage 2
caption_attribution_description: English: Tour de France 2013 - Profile Stage No. 2
context_page_description: The 2013 Tour de France was the 100th Tour de France. It ran from 29 June 2013 to 21 July 2013, starting in the city of Porto-Vecchio in Corsica, with the island hosting the first three stages. Corsica was the only Metropolitan region, and Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse were the only Metropolitan departments, through which the Tour had never previously passed and the organisers wanted to combine the 100th edition of the Tour with the Tour's first ever visit to Corsica.
  The opening stage was a standard road stage rather than the more usual Individual time trial or "Prologue".
  To accommodate the tour entourage during their stay in Corsica, the organisers chartered the Mega Smeralda cruiseferry to house members of the organisation, media and others who work on the Tour and to host press conferences, although the riders stayed in hotels in and around Porto-Vecchio.
context_section_description: 30 June 2013 — Bastia to Ajaccio, 156 km (96.9 mi)
  The tour crossed the island to Ajaccio on the west coast, with four ranked climbs including the Category 2 Col de Vizzavona (1,163 m (3,816 ft)) after 95 km (59.0 mi) and a Category 3 climb 12 km (7.5 mi) before the finish.
  The day started with an opening attack within the opening kilometre and the formation of the day's breakaway by the 6 km (3.7 mi) mark. The break consisted of Rubén Pérez of Euskaltel–Euskadi, Belkin Pro Cycling's Lars Boom, Team Europcar rider David Veilleux, and Blel Kadri for Ag2r–La Mondiale and expanded their lead to three minutes in the first hour of racing. Boom crossed the intermediate sprint point ahead of his breakaway compatriots, while André Greipel (Lotto–Belisol) lead the peloton across the same point, beating Cannondale's Peter Sagan. The four breakaway riders started the climb of the Col de Bellagranajo with a 1' 50" advantage that was cut to a 1' 00" advantage at the summit of the climb.
  Veilleux and Kadri broke away from their companions at the start of the second climb while Veilleux's team-mate Thomas Voeckler attacked from the peloton, but was quickly brought back. At this point, a gruppetto was forming which included the yellow jersey Marcel Kittel (Argos–Shimano) as well as the other top sprinters in the tour. Pierre Rolland attacked from the peloton and was followed by Sojasun's Brice Feillu. Rolland passed the breakaway riders and crossed the summit first, but was caught by the peloton on the col de Vizzavona after a concerted effort from FDJ.fr and Team Sky. On the final climb of the day, separate attacks were made by Team Europcar's Cyril Gautier, Chris Froome (Team Sky), and Juan Antonio Flecha of Vacansoleil–DCM; each of which was unsuccessful. With 7 km (4.3 mi) to go, Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step) attacked and was joined by RadioShack–Leopard's Jan Bakelants, Euskaltel–Euskadi rider Gorka Izagirre, Manuele Mori for Lampre–Merida, Astana's Jakob Fuglsang, and Flecha. The leading peloton picked off members of the breakaway one by one, until only Bakelants remained. Bakelants finished across the line a second in front of Sagan, earning himself his first Tour stage victory and the yellow jersey.
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