Subtract the cobbles, add the crosswinds, keep the wetness, and we get stage 6 through the flat and flowery northern French countryside from Arras to Reims.  Apparently Kittel just wasn’t feeling his sprint-finish best after his wipe out yesterday.  And Sagan likely wasn’t feeling 100% either following his own tumble today, though as usual he made it back among the top finishers.  Rather, Andre Greipel sure felt it, as this became the German powerhouse’s day in the sun, so to speak.