Geraint Thomas emerged from the inquest into his time trial gilet blunder and admitted: “It's a bit raw – I'm still angry.”
Battered by strong crosswinds but otherwise unscathed, Thomas escaped a massive pile-up inside the last mile-and-a-half after the Tour de France peloton crossed the Great Belt Bridge into southern Denmark.
The carnage included Thomas's Ineos Grenadiers team-mates Dani Martinez and Filippo Ganna, although it had no bearing on the bunch sprint which followed. In a reduced front group, Fabio Jakobsen – whose blistering form denied Britain's Mark Cavendish potentially record-breaking encore on Le Tour – won stage two in a breathless finish after the 125-mile long haul from Roskilde to Nyborg.
