Greig Leach

With a very tight race in every competition except the King of the Mountains, today's circuit race through downtown Adelaide should be a "real ripper," to use the venacular. The first group to open up a gap on the peloton was this quartet comprised of Antoine Duchesne (FDJ), Nans Peters and Pierre Roger Latour (Ag2r La Mondiale) and Ben O'Connor (Dimension Data). With bonus seconds on offer at the intermediate sprints, Mitchelton-Scott would love for a group to get established and help make sure that no one could grab time on the Ochre Jersey of their man Daryl Impey. Apparently after this group swelled in numbers, the peloton decided this was not the break they wanted.