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2016 Tour de France, Stage 3: Granville → Angers (224km)

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Greipel's team seemed really awful in the last kilometers. Boasson Hagen and Renshaw on the other hand were bossing it for Cavendish.
 
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Red Rick said:
Finish had a 2% gradient, meaning, Kittel was nowhere

Blablabla... he nearly won here:

stage-3-18km.jpg


Today his trains sucked, that's all.
 
Who's to blame for Kittel's poor showing - himself or his team? Also I've seen close photo finishes before but that one had the biggest difference in speed between the two riders - Cav was visibly much faster in the last couple of metres. Fair play to cav because I thought he'd suffer big time today after digging deep at the end of yesterday's stage. I guess 200km piano gave him plenty time to recover. At least we got 10 seconds or so of action...