Monday 1 July 2013 17:12, UK
Simon Gerrans revealed he had been targeting winning stage three of the Tour de France and was elated to hold off "one of the quickest guys around" for victory.
Bakelants will wear the maillot jaune for a second day in tomorrow's team time trial in Nice, but does not expect to keep hold of it. "Tomorrow will be hard," he admitted. "Even though we have a good team, there are more specialist teams and it is only one second. It is nothing. "Who knows? We do the maximum tomorrow and tomorrow night we see, but if I am in yellow it would surprise me."