Greig Leach

On every stage of the Tour de France, there is an Intermediate Sprint, this one in the town of Port Bail, brought out the marquee sprinters to vie for 5th place at best (which carries 11 points in the Green Jersey competition). Fifth place because there are still four riders in the break up the road by nearly six minutes at this point. It was Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) decked out in his German National Champion Jersey, who held off Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) and his own countryman, Marcel Kittel (Etixx-Quickstep). Kittel is wearing the Green Jersey on loan from the Yellow Jersey wearing Mark Cavendish (Dimension Data). Cavendish managed fourth in the sprint at this point keeping his lead in the Sprint competition. None of these riders figure to be in the finale today due to the rather steep climb to the line.