Sam Bennett gets caught on wrong side of Tour de France bunch sprint

Sam Bennett failed to feature in the first big bunch sprint of this year’s Tour de France after getting caught on the wrong side of a key split during a crucial part of yesterday’s race.

The Bora Argon 18 man finished almost 14 minutes down on stage winner Andre Greipel (Lotto Soudal) and will rue not being in the front group as he’s beaten many of those who contested the finish.

Peter Sagan (Tinkoff Saxo) and Mark Cavendish (Etixx-QuickStep) rounded out the podium on the fifth stage of the 189km race from Arras to Amiens. Bennett’s teammate and normally his leadout man, Zak Dempster, found himself up towards the front coming to the line but had to settle for 12th after he was boxed in on the finishing straight.