Froome and Yates move up standings in Dauphine

British duo Chris Froome and Adam Yates moved into the top 10 of the Cri teri um du D au phi ne general classification after a hilly second stage.

Bahrain-merida’s Dylan Teuns took the yellow jersey and stage victory on the 180 -kilometre ride from Mauriac to Craponne-surArzon after overhauling Guillaume Martin in a twoman sprint finish.

Behind the duo, Jakob Fuglsang took the bonus seconds for finishing third as he beat a group of fellow GC favourites to the finishing line.

Four-time Tour de France winner Froo me( Team Ineos) and last year’ sDa uphi ne runner-up Yates (Mitch elton-Scott) were both in that group and sit 24 seconds down on Teuns in the new GC standings.

F room eh ad earlier recovered from apuncture to rejoin the peloton as it chased the day’s breakaway, which included 2017 Giro d’italia winner Tom Dumoulin.

Stage one winner Edvald Boas son Ha gen saw his hold on they el lowj erse yd is appear as he finished almost two minutes behind Teuns.

Teuns takes a three-second lead over Martin into stage three, with Fuglsang 20 seconds back and his Astana team-mate Alexey Lutsenko a further second off the pace in fourth.

Meanwhile, Jo lien D’ Ho ore won the opening stage of the OVO Energy Women’ s Tour for the second year running.

The 29-year-old from Belgium, riding for the BoelsDolmans team, triumphed over the 157km route from Beccles to Stowmarket in Suffolk.

Yorks hire’ sAb by-Mae Park in son broke away from the pack with 22km remaining and opened up a gap of over one minute and a half.

But the 21-year- old was eventually reeled in over the final couple of miles and D’ Ho ore won the sprint to the finish and claimed the green jersey.

D’ Hoo re’ sBo el s-Dolmans team-mate Amy Pieters, of Holland, was second with Germany’s Lisa Brennauer (Wnt-rotor) taking third spot.