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Stage 3 didn’t quite bring the break up in the peloton that many expected but it did bring about a return to winning for Sky’s Edvald Boasson Hagen.
The Norwegian champ romped home if fine style after being delivered expertly to the final few hundred meters by Geraint Thomas, proving that the English team can win the odd sprint even without Mark Cavendish.
David Meilleux retained the yellow leader’s jersey for yet another day, though he is expected to come under some serious pressure in today’s individual time trial.
Currently the Frenchman is 1:56 ahead of Gianni Meersman with just about all the GC favorites just one second behind the Belgian. Alejandro Valverde of Movistar poses a threat as does Sylvain Chavanel of Omega Pharma-QuickStep, though the three men most chafing at the bit are the trio of Christopher Froome and Richie Porte (both Sky) and Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff).
Each of these men are very good against the clock and will be looking to take some big chunks out of Meilleux’s lead. Can one of them take over the lead? Well at 32.5km this is not a terribly long TT so it may be difficult, so Meilleux may retain Yellow for one more day.
Favorites for the stage? Marco Pinotti (BMC), Lieuwe Westra (Vacansoleil) are threats, but look out for Tony Martin (OP-QS) to take on Froome for the top spot today.
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