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  • Pieters edges Copponi after ‘hectic’ sprint finish in Walsall
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Amy Pieters won a cold and rainy second stage of the Women’s Tour of Britain in a sprint finish, while second-placed Clara Copponi took the overall leader’s jersey.

Tuesday’s stage began and ended in Walsall, with a 10-woman breakaway group battling for the stage victory in what the 30-year-old Dutch cyclist Pieters described as “a hectic finale”. British 21-year-old rider Pfeiffer Georgi (Team DSM) led into the final corner but had to settle for fifth place, with Movistar’s Sheyla Gutiérrez in third.

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