Lawson Craddock came into the Tour of California as Cannondale's declared leader, and Tuesday's queen stage was supposed to be the place where he backed that up and climbed to the top of the overall standings.
But a bad day on the final climb left Craddock struggling to finish with teammate Andrew Talansky more than one minute down on stage winner and new race leader Julian Alaphilippe.
After stage 3 on Tuesday, Etixx-QuickStep's young Frenchman leads the general classification by 19 seconds over stage 3 runner-up Peter Stetina (Trek-Segafredo) and 31 seconds over LottoNL-Jumbo's George Bennett. BMC's Brent Booklwaleter is fourth, 37 seconds down, followed by Axeon-Hagens Berman's Nielson Powless in fifth at 40 seconds. Craddock is 1:12 off the race lead.
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But after getting a hug from former team director Axel Merckx, Craddock told Cyclingnews that the overall race at the Tour of California is far from over.
"The next couple of days are still really challenging, with Laguna Seca tomorrow and then Tahoe," he said. "I mean Tahoe is raced for almost 80km above 8,000 feet, so that can be challenging for a lot of guys.
"So the race isn't over, but it's going to make it a little harder on us."
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