Sky's Danny van Poppel takes Tour of Poland lead as Modolo wins stage two

Sacha Modolo wins bunch sprint on stage two of the 2017 Tour of Poland as Peter Sagan loses overall lead to Danny van Poppel

Sacha Modolo wins stage two of the 2017 Tour of Poland

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Sacha Modolo (UAE Team Emirates) took his first WorldTour victory of the 2017 season on Sunday, winning stage two of the Tour of Poland.

The Italian was a convincing winner of the bunch sprint in Katowice, finishing ahead of Danny van Poppel (Team Sky) and Maximilian Walschid (Team Sunweb).

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Stephen Puddicombe is a freelance journalist for Cycling Weekly, who regularly contributes to our World Tour racing coverage with race reports, news stories, interviews and features. Outside of cycling, he also enjoys writing about film and TV - but you won't find much of that content embedded into his CW articles.