Liège offered the sprinters their first chance in this year's Tour de France, and it turned out to be a disorganised affair, a huge crash with 3km to go and a late catch of the breakaway contributing to the confusion. Marcel Kittel (Quick-Step Floors) burst from the field to claim the win by a bike length to take his 10th Tour victory, leaving the others nothing but the opportunity to explain why they didn't win.
Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) is a threat to take the victory in almost every situation and was, in fact, the first to open the sprint. And that was the problem.
"Unfortunately I started too early and then got closed by Colbrelli. There isn't much more to say – my sprint wasn't very good," he said in a report posted on his team's website.
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Nacer Bouhanni (Cofidis), still looking for his first ever Tour win, blamed Sagan for his eighth place. His lead-out man Christophe Laporte was with Sagan, who slowed just as Laporte was ready to go.
"It was a stormy sprint with this headwind that explains why Sagan waited. The other wave then took over and it was too late," said Bouhanni.
Andre Greipel, who finished third, congratulated his fellow German, saying: "Kittel was very strong and deserved the win."
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