Porte learns crucial lesson

RICHIE Porte’s painful title nearmiss in the Criterium du Dauphine may yet have a silver lining for the Tour de France.

A frustrated Porte says his BMC Racing team received a useful lesson yesterday as he was isolated and left to chase after being put under siege by Tour rivals, who he believed preferred someone else won the key lead-up race.

The Australian was overhauled atop the leaderboard by Dane Jakob Fuglsang to finish runner-up by just 10 seconds.