Longwy — World champion Peter Sagan won his eighth Tour de France stage despite a technical glitch on the uphill finish to the third stage in Longwy on Monday. Sagan’s foot came unclipped from his pedal as he started to accelerate at the finish, but he kept his cool and still proved too strong for the competition at the end of the 212.5km run from Verviers in Belgium. "At the end I did unclip, I don’t know why. I was thinking ‘what’s going on?’. I was unlucky, but I managed to go again and I won. I’m delighted," Sagan said. Geraint Thomas finished eighth, two seconds behind the winner, to hold on to the race leader’s yellow jersey. "There were no crashes, which was good, but it was a really hectic final. I’m happy to get through unscathed," Briton Thomas said. His team leader and reigning champion Chris Froome was a place behind in ninth and moved up from sixth to second overall, still at 12sec. Australian Michael Matthews was second on the stage with Dan Martin of Ireland third, ju...
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