The second edition of the Tour de France Saitama Criterium was played out in sunny weather worthy of July, watched by a passionate audience that has been definitively won over by the Tour de France, and by the leading lights of the race who made the journey. One of them, Marcel Kittel, continued the winning run which paused on the Champs-Elysées, taking the sprint ahead of Peter Sagan and Alexander Kristoff.
