Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) survived a nervy first day in the yellow jersey at the Tour de France on Sunday, and despite taking a tumble with 30 kilometres to race the maillot jaune retained his lead ahead of stage 3.
The Welshman swept aside the opposition in the opening 14 kilometre time trial through Dusseldorf on Saturday to become just the eighth British rider to don the yellow jersey. Stage 2 from the German city to Liège in Belgium served up an entirely different proposition with a relatively flat parcours raced under wet conditions.
Thomas was involved in a crash that took down several of his teammates, including Chris Froome, but he was able to rejoin the main field before safely crossing the line in 35th place.
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"Some guys crashed in front of us and a few guys came down," Thomas said after the stage.
"It was a little tumble at 30 kilometres to go and we were all in a good position. There was nowhere you could go, but it was all OK in the end and it was a nice bonus to keep the jersey at the end of the day, even though it was sketchy and not very nice conditions.
"I'm not sure who was first down, myself and Froome were top 10, top 15, and ended up hitting the deck but there's no real damage. I just took off a bit of skin."
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