Flying Dutchman delivers Rás stage victory in Mayo

It’s ‘as you were’ going into stage three of the An Post Rás today, as Sunday’s stage winner Nicolai Brochner-Nielsen managed to hold on to the yellow jersey by the skin of his teeth.

The Danish rider may have conceded seven seconds to yesterday’s victor Jan-Willen Van Schip of the Delta Cycling Team from the Netherlands but Brochner-Nielsen and his team did enough to preserve yellow.

Van Schip got his timing right to win the day in the picturesque village of Newport, Co Mayo when he attacked a five-man break with five of the 142 kilometres remaining.