No crashes, no chase and no risks. For a Tour de France contender like Chris Froome (Team Sky) stage 3 from Liège to Longwy was step in the right direction after hitting the deck the previous day.
Froome finished safely in the bunch, in ninth place, two seconds down on stage winner Peter Sagan (Bora-Hansgrohe) but in the same time as a number of rivals, and one place down on his teammate, and race leader, Geraint Thomas.
As a result, Froome moved from sixth to second overall but that alteration matters little in the grand scheme of things. It was more important to come through the tricky stage and the uphill finish intact and stay close for the first mountain test in two days time.
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"It was good. It was only a short little kick to the finish but it was all good," Froome said with a relaxed shrug as he crossed the line and spoke to Cyclingnews.
Back at the team bus and with a chance to digest the result and run out the lactic acid from his legs as he warmed down, Froome described the stage.
"I think that with all the road furniture out there, and all the narrow turns and wind, everyone was a bit nervous," he said to reporters. One day after a crash at the front of the peloton brought down both Froome and Thomas, and several other GC rivals including Romain Bardet (AG2R La Mondiale) and Richie Porte (BMC), Froome said nobody wanted a repeat of that on Monday.
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