Greig Leach

Clearly I am paraphrasing here. The old saying is "the luck of the Irish," but luck had very little to do with Dan Martin's (UAE Team Emirates) stage victory atop the Mur de Bretagne. The last time the Tour came here, he was just beaten out by a rider from Ag2r La Mondiale. Today he wasn't going to let anyone come around him, even as another Ag2r rider, Pierre Latour, was trying to catch the Irishman's wheel. Behind, Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) took third on the day and a one second time bonus over the other main contenders finishing in the group behind. The day had little effect on the GC with the small exception of Dumoulin dropping a few places out of the top ten. There is still fifteen stages of racing to get to Paris.