Greig Leach

With a small, but powerful group up the road, the peloton set off in hot pursuit. The sprinters had pulled a sneaky move, after getting a gap going for the intermediate sprint, they kept riding (usually, they will sit up and wait for the peloton to come back together). The Eritrean National Champion, Natnael Berhane (Dimension Data) gave chase, hoping to set up another victory for the team. He had FDJ on his wheel. The men from FDJ looked over to see who in pale blue had jumped out from the group. The tricolore of the Italian colors should have told them that Vincenzo Nibali (Astana) had seen the danger of letting those up the road get too much of a lead.