Greig Leach

As I have said the nine man break split apart, leaving riders all over the road. At this point Greschke and Selvaggi were extending their lead on these three and the peloton. Four others had already surrendered and been picked up by the Tinkoff-Saxo led peloton. That left Hugh Carthy (Caja Rural-Serguros), Eugene Duyn (Team Roompot) and Romain Sicard (Europcar) stuck in the middle, in the oft called "no man's land." The trio was hoping that it would be the two ahead that they would see first rather than hearing the whirring sound of the spinning wheels of the peloton.