Germany's Andre Greipel hailed the efforts of his Lotto-Soudal teammates after he won Sunday's Stage 2 of the Tour de France.
Greipel edged Tinkoff-Saxo's Peter Sagan of Slovakia on the line in Zelande, Netherlands, after great work inside of the peloton from Tony Gallopin and Marcel Sieberg during the 104-mile stage.
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Behind Greipel and Sagan was Trek's Fabian Cancellara of Switzerland, who took over the Tour leader's yellow jersey from BMC's Rohan Dennis by three seconds ahead of Tony Martin (Etixx-QuickStep).
As Mark Cavendish looked to get the win for Etixx-QuickStep, Greipel took his time in the final sprintHe moved out of Cavendish's draft to take the win and the green points classification jersey.
"This was about team work," Greipel said. "I feel they were superb. I felt strong and I'm just really happy to have won.
"[It] was a tough day out. We followed a different strategy, riding hard early on to drop some of my sprint rivals. It worked out well.
"I was really nervous with all the wind and rain. The team managed to keep me up in the front, and it was a key factor. I'm really happy about my teammates and really proud we won the first stage."
"I didn't know where to go" at the end, Cancellara told ITV Sport. "I went right which was the long way round, it was not my best sprint but what I needed to get yellow.
"I had a tough time [during the race], it was not easy but I tried to recover, be smart and watch from the back. I knew it was not going to be easy, but I won yellow and that's good."