Tour de France 2016 – Stage 6 Highlight
198 riders started stage 6 at Arpajon-sur-Cère.
It hadn’t happened since 2000 that the peloton was still as numerous as on day 1 after five stages.
Yukiya Arashiro (Lampre-Merida) and Jan Barta (Bora-Argon 18) rode away after three kilometers of racing. Their maximum time gap was recorded before the intermediate sprint (5.30 at km 71) where Bryan Coquard (Direct Energie) was the fastest of the peloton ahead of Michael Matthews, Peter Sagan and Marcel Kittel, all hunting for the green jersey.
It was a long and hot day on the saddle. Several teams swapped turns at the head of the peloton to maintain the deficit between three and four minutes: Dimension Data, Etixx-Quick Step and Lotto-Soudal.
