Giant Shimano's Jonas Ahlstrand has said that he hopes that his team can challenge for more stages of the Tour Of Alberta
Ahlstrand sprinted to victory on stage two of the Tour of Alberta as team-mate Tom Dumoulin successfully defended his race lead and the Swede told his team's press office: "It was a really big fight for the break today with nothing getting away. It wasn't until 40km to go until six guys got away so I went for the intermediate sprints and then when the break went we controlled the gap at a minute and no more.
"I stayed in the wheels on the final climb and made it over the top in the top ten. The run in was quick and I was able to follow the wheels and wait until 200m to go to launch my sprint.
"During the winter together with the team we really focused on building my strength and I have made a big step this year. There are still more opportunities for bunch sprints here so I hope that we can continue to challenge for stages as well as the overall."
Tom Dumoulin said: "The attacks were going on for 100kms today before a group went away. We managed to take control after this and bring them back late on to set up the sprint.
"The last hills weren't too hard and not the type where you can make splits. It was chaos in the final kilometres though so we couldn't find each other to position Jonas but he did well to get on Bos's wheel and win the stage.
"Overall it was another good day but a hard one for us."