Greig Leach

Victor Lafay (Cofidis) had an ill-timed mechanical. With just 25 kilometers to race nearly his whole team came back to help pull him back up to the tail of the peloton. Davide Cimolai had just swung off having done what he could, leaving the effort to Andre Carvalho (and the team car). On Lafay's wheel is Harrison Wood holding himself in reserve for the final effort to get Cofidis' best general classification hope back into the front group. They did get there in the end finishing with the main peloton just 11 seconds off of the time of the stage winner.