It's the first win for his Belgian team since the death of their young rider Bjorg Lambrecht on the Tour of Poland.

Dan Martin (UAE Emirates) and Nicolas Roche (Sunweb) will fly the flag for Ireland on the Tour.

After a breakthrough performance at the Tour of Yorkshire, Eddie Dunbar has said he’ll be added to Sky’s successor Team Ineos’ roster for the Giro d’Italia, which starts in Bologna next Saturday.

Dan Martin has got his Tour de France campaign off to the best possible start with a Stage 6 victory on the first hilly test of the race to Mur de Bretagne ahead of Pierre Latour (Ag2r) and Alejandro Valverde (Movistar).