Greig Leach

The main reason for the rather dispirited sprint was not the uphill rise to the line in Mauriac. Rather, it was the fact that the current woman wearing the Maillot Vert of best sprinter, Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio (AG Insurance-Soudal-Quick Step) didn't jump out of the group to vie for sprint points with the Maillot Jaune on the shoulders of Lotte Kopecky (Team SD Worx-Protime). In fact the only one to come out of the peloton with Kopecky was Maria Giulia Confalonieri (Uno-x). The major points had been grapped by the three women up the road, but nevertheless this sprint increased Kopecky's lead in the sprint competition.