Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) wins tour d France stage 11

Geraint Thomas (Team Sky) attacks to win stage 11 victory in La Rosière, Tour d France. His stage win propel's him into the yellow jersey and the overrall general classification standing.

How the stage unfolded

After watching Julian Alaphilippe go all the way the previous afternoon, there was once again no shortage of interest in the breakaway on the second of three days in the Alps. More than 40 riders managed to escape the clutches of the peloton, though many would fall away once the road began to rise in earnest. One of them was Peter Sagan, who struck out for a second day in a row to collect the points at the intermediate sprint, adding to his lead in the green jersey standings before drifting back through the peloton to the soon-to-be-formed gruppetto.

Top Ten General classification standings

1, Geraint Thomas (Great Britain) Team Sky 44:06:16,
2, Chris Froome (Great Britain) Team Sky 0:01:25,
3, Tom Dumoulin (Netherland) Team Sunweb 0:01:44,
4, Vincenzo Nibali (Italy) Bahrain-Merida 0:02:14,
5, Primoz Roglic (Slovakia) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:02:23,
6, Steven Kruijswijk (Netherland) LottoNL-Jumbo 0:02:40,
7, Mikel Landa (Spain) Movistar Team 0:02:56,
8, Romain Bardet (France) AG2R La Mondiale 0:02:58,
9, Nairo Quintana (Colombia) Movistar Team 0:03:16,
10, Daniel Martin (Ireland) UAE Team Emirates 0:03:16.