After yesterday's frenetic finale to the opening stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, there was even less certainty that stage 2 would finish in a bunch gallop. That possibility surely dropped even lower when Jonathan Milan (Lidl-Trek) was dropped with 56km remaining on the second-category Côte du Château de Buron climb.
However, the Italian showed why he's the best sprinter at this year's edition of the pre-Tour warm-up race by making it back into the peloton, powering to the stage win and then into the leader's yellow jersey in one foul swoop.
