Tour of Beijing Stage 2: Birds Nest Piazza > Mentougou, 126kms
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Watch out for those dragons - the Tour of Beijing is out in the countryside today...
Francesco Gavazzi is more interested in getting his bike fixed at the moment...
Matthias Frank leads the day's hopeful escape towards the hills...
Pengda Jiao fills up with bottles for his Champion Systems' teamates...
Liquigas is already chasing hard, keeping the gap to less than three minutes, 50-kilometres into the stage...
Jose Ivan Gutierrez is leading the escape, but if only he knew what is about to happen behind..!
Euskatel has attacked at the start of the 1st category climb, splitting the peloton into six or seven groups...
This scenery shot needs a fullly compact peloton, please..!
Andy Schleck has been dropped quite badly - he'll end the day third-from-last on G.C..!
Mitch Docker is chasing hard for Green edge in the hope that a regroupment later will aid the team's two sprinters...
Ryder Hesjedal has attacked from the leading group that has now caught the original escape...
Craig Lewis is chasing Hesjedal's group hard - he smells a winning move coming..!
Hesjedal has split the front group even more - he has Poland's new star, Rafal Majka, with him
Dan Martin swoops down the descent after taking the climbing points - he'll do the same on the following climb as well...
Tony Martin is chasing Martin down the mountain - he too knows a good move when he sees one..!
Elia Viviani descends many minutes later, all hope of keeping the race-lead now over...
What's left of the peloton is dwarfed by the mountains in Beijing province...
Martin now leads the race on the last 3rd-category climb - and he looks too strong for everyone else today..!
There's desperation showing on the faces of Simon Clarke and Rui Costa as Martin storms away in front of them...
George Bennett is chasing further back, but it's too little too late...
Martin has made his own time trial from a race that didn't have one - he won't be caught now..!
Majka and Gavazzi are chasing hard, but the gap to Martin is almost one-minute in the last five-kilometres...
Martin looks to be heading to a stage-win and the overall lead - and maybe he'll win the race overall as well..!
Tony Martin wins stage two into Mentougou by 46-seconds...
Francesco Gavazzi takes second-place in a group just ahead of another group, who are just ahead of another group, who are...
Tony Martin wears the race-leader's jersey - he'll be a hard man to beat now...