Future watch: stage 1

Mikel Landa and Jon Izagirre both placed inside the top 21 on today's first stage proper of the Tour de l'Avenir. The rather flat 144km stage ended in the aniticapted bunch sprint, a sprint in which speedy German John Degenkolb expectedly proved to be the fastest. Landa was a good 12th, while Izagirre wasn't far back in 21st, both on the same time as the future HTC-Columbia rider. There were no major alterations to the GC.