Michael Matthews followed Tom Dumoulin’s lead in securing his Grand Tour set – a stage victory in Revel adding to victories at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana in previous years.
Returning after the 2016 Tour de France’s first rest day, Matthews got into the day’s break and then – alongside two team-mates – in the decisive seven-man move which contested the stage.
With Peter Sagan, Greg van Avermaet and Edvald Boasson Hagen also present in that move, it was a day for the rouleurs, given the race’s highest climb of this year’s edition had to be tackled at the start of the stage.
Relive the best of the action through the lens of UCI WorldTour photographer Stefano Sirotti below.