Greig Leach

With no intermediate sprints nor queen of the mountain points out on course, there wasn't much reason to be off the front in today's short road stage. Well, there is that most combative rider award, and since Audrey de Keersmaeker (Lotto Dstny) was the only one to escape the peloton at all, it is clearly going to be hers for Stage 2. She built up almost twenty seconds on those behind but with another thirty-three kilometers left to race they have already pulled her back to fourteen seconds advantage. With a mass sprint on offer, she isn't going to be off the front for too much longer.