While Marcel Kittel and his Quick-Step Floors teammates celebrated their fourth stage victory of this year's Tour de France and tightened Kittel's grip on the green points jersey, his rivals could only bow their heads and try to find an explanation for the four-nil defeat.
André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) took to Twitter to thank his teammates for their hard work but disparaged his own performance. Others stopped after a deep breath to speak to the media, but none had the answer on how to beat Marcel Kittel in the Tour de France sprints.
Dylan Groenewegen (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) - third
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Badly positioned by his own admission before the final kilometre, his acceleration could take him past early attacker Dan McLay but that was as good as it got.
"I did my sprint in the final kilometre OK, but before the last turn I was too far back, maybe in 14th place, and that was not ideal. But Kittel was also too far back and he got the win," Groenewegen said.
"The speed is there and I'm very happy with the team support. It's my best position in a Tour finish, but I'm not sprinting to finish third, I'm sprinting to win. We have to take advantage of the mistakes Kittel may make, and punish him for them. That's the only way we can win."
— Andre Greipel (@AndreGreipel) July 11, 2017
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