Greig Leach

Franziska Koch (Picnic-PostNL) joined up with the Brazilian Ana Vitoria Magalhaes (Movistar) as they left the peloton and chased done the lone leader, Maud Rijnbeek. They didn't hang around, immediately dropping the Dutch woman as they went off it hopes of beating the odds. They had another seventy-eight kilometers to race, so it would be a long effort, and a long shot, to vie for stage victory. Since their team cars couldn't get through the tightly packed peloton, they were being looked after by the Shimano neutral service moto.