Tour of Slovenia #1: Mark Renshaw goes down in chaotic sprint finale
Simone Consonni (Team UAE-Emirates) sprinted to victory on a crash marred stage 1 of the Tour of Slovenia. Matteo Pelucchi (Bora-Hansgrohe) finished in 2nd and Niccolo Bonifazio (Bahrain-Merida) was 3rd. The opening stage of the Tour of Slovenia was tailor-made for the sprinters but the peloton still had to make its way from Lendava to Murska Sobota over 159km. 5 riders formed the early break of the day but with all the main sprint teams contributing to the chase, Team Dimension Data included, they stood no chance of surviving to the finish today. With the break caught at 14km to go, Mitchelton-Scott, LottoNL-Jumbo, Bahrain-Merida and.