THE PUNCTURE ON STAGE 2 LAST YEAR:

“I copped a terrible wheel change in Cherbourg. If you gave me a tube, a pump and levers I could have changed it quicker than the neutrals. The person who came up to me irst in the team and said you can’t give up was Tejay [van Garderen]. I really appreciated that because I was talking to the media and saying it was all over now. It felt like it was."