Westley Gough (New Zealand National Team) wins the prologue of the Tour de Pays de Savoie, in front of his teammate Marc Ryan and Tim Wellens (Lotto - Belisol U23).

Enrico Barbin (U.C. Trevigiani Dynanom Bottoli) wins stage 6 of the GiroBio, in front of Marco Prodigioso (Monviso - Venezia) and Alfonso Fiorenza (Gragnano Sporting Club). Ilnur Zakarin (Russia National Team) keeps the leader's jersey.

Rohan Dennis (Team Jayco - AIS) wins stage 5 of the Thüringen Rundfahrt. A mountain timetrial. 2nd and 3rd were Johan Le Bon (France National Team) à 23" and Jakob Steigmiller (Thüringer Energie Team) à 43". Rohan Dennis also takes the leader's jersey from Moreno Hofland (Rabobank Continental Team).

Not surprising at all considering his Willunga performance in the TDU.

Ster ZLM Tour, Stage 1 : Eindhoven - Sittard/Geleen (provisional) (151 km)
1. [GER] KITTEL Marcel ARG 3h30'05"
2. [AUS] RENSHAW Mark RAB
3. [GBR] CAVENDISH Mark SKY
4. [NED] VAN HUMMEL Kenny VCD
5. [ITA] NIZZOLO Giacomo RNT
6. [GER] GREIPEL Andre LTB
7. [BEL] PEETERS Kevin LAN
8. [JPN] MIYAZAWA Takashi SAX
9. [LUX] DRUCKER Jempy ACC
10. [NED] VAN DIJK Stefan ACC

Ni sprinters line up there. Wish Sagan and Dengelkolb were present too.

Look Alakagom, Greipel stopped winning in shit small races.

Nothing personal, but

He's won a couple of sprints this year. We'd see where he stands against the best guys. I'm not saying he'd win, I think it's unlikely he would.

This isn't shit small race when Cav is here

Nah, well this sprinter line up is quite impressive so a win here is rather nice tbh When Greipel won before this month, sprinter line up was very weak. Here, it's different

You completely misunterstood me. I didn't question his sprint abilities at all, it's just that his name is Degenkolb, not Dengelkolb

Wow, Renshaw actually finishing in front of Cavendish

Yes wonder if he got confused and thought Renshaw was leading him out and there was 500m to go given his claims of misjudging the finish

Cav's train wasn't too well, supposedly.
Still nice win by the German.

Nizzolo weak as always.

Very disappointing for Greipel

Indeed , get beat by Cavendish who gets himself beaten. I think Greipel is very disappointed of himself.

Greipel has got to start being more aggressive in the sprint. Not in a dangerous way, but this clearly isn't working for him.

He clearly is as he beat Cav today to get stage win on 2 stage in ZLM Tour Cav 2nd and Renshaw 3rd.

Very interesting he beat Cav

Bias to Sky and Cav acknowledged up front but...

...shaping up nicely for competition at the Tour, especially given the possible number of bunch sprints. I'm sure it's not intentional, but other sprinters beating Cav now may help Sky considerably in the flat stages with other teams much more likely to chase.

Great job from Greipel, good to see him win this one, he had me doubting.

Arnaud Demare (FDJ - BigMat) wins the second stage of the Route du Sud, in front of Steven Caethoven (Accent.jobs - Willems Verandas) and Manuel Belletti (Ag2r - La Mondiale). Demare also takes the leader's jersey.