Not even a faulty chain could prevent Primoz Roglic stealing the Maglia Rosa from Geraint Thomas in the most extraordinary fashion, exorcising the misery of three years ago at La Planche des Belles Filles. The Slovenian needed to snatch 26 seconds off Thomas in a hellish time-trial and he took 40 of them. Thomas is the Welshman who rode up a mule track and came down a runner-up.