"I was in the top position of the group but the fall has ruined everything."

Those were the words of Alexey Lutsenko after stage 2 of Tirreno-Adriatico. Lutsenko was preparing the sprint helped by his teammate Ruslan Tleubayev but a big crash in the last km forced him to give up.

Lutsenko finished in sixteenth place with the same time of stage winner Jens Debusschere of Belgium.

Andriy Grivko is nine seconds from the leader of the overall classification Adriano Malori, while Vincenzo Nibali has an eleven gap to the Italian rider.