Tour de France: Sprinters left watching as Stybar wins

By Sadhbh O'Shea
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Sagan claims his third second-place finish of the race

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Peter Sagan finished second, again.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)

It should have been a day for the likes of Peter Sagan (Tinkoff-Saxo), John Degenkolb (Giant-Alpecin) or Alexander Kristoff (Team Katusha). However, as Zdenek Stybar (Etixx-QuickStep) rode away to his debut Tour de France stage win the day’s favourites refused to work together to bring him back. Sagan rounded the final corner at the front of the bunch, swinging off to the right as he tried to force the hand of the riders behind.

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Sadhbh O'Shea

Born in Ireland to a cycling family and later moved to the Isle of Man, so there was no surprise when I got into the sport. Studied sports journalism at university before going on to do a Masters in sports broadcast. After university I spent three months interning at Eurosport, where I covered the Tour de France. In 2012 I started at Procycling Magazine, before becoming the deputy editor of Procycling Week. I then joined Cyclingnews, in December 2013.