Greig Leach

Not wanting to leave it to a sprint, Kaden Groves (Alpecin-Deceuninck) timed his attack on his two breakaway companions perfectly. As he went, they looked each to the other to do the chase. That was all the hesitation that the Australian needed to fly to the finish alone. As he went under the 5K banner, he had forty-seven seconds on the lone chaser and a minute and ten seconds to a group of eight more. Given how he is going I doubt anyone will see him until the podium presentations in Pontarlier. The peloton containing all of the leaders' jerseys was over six minutes back down the soggy road playing it safe.