Greig Leach

It looked like this trio were joking about pretending that they were going to attack the slow-moving peloton. The day started without a breakaway on a clear flat sprint stage and no one seemed eager to take on the sprinters' teams in a vain effort to ride off the front. There was a relaxed and playful mood most of the day that generated this feint attack. However, when Kobe Goossens (Intermache-Wanty) along with the teammates Maxim Van Gils (Lotto-Dstny) and Brent Van Moer realized they had a gap, they decided they might as well see just how much rope the peloton would give them. You might notice that one of the Lidl-Trek men is on his radio asking the team car what they should do about this move. With 140 kilometers to go, this was most likely the joke that it started out to be.