Stage 2 result
- Marcel Kittel
- Arnaud Démare
- André Greipel
- Mark Cavendish
- Dylan Groenewegen
General classification
1. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) 4hrs 53mins 10secs
2. Stefan Kung (Swi/BMC Racing) +5secs
3. Marcel Kittel (Ger/Quick-Step) +6secs
4. Vasil Kiryienka (Blr/Team Sky) +7secs
5. Matteo Trentin (Ita/Quick-Step) +10secs
6. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +12secs
7. Jos van Emden (Ned/LottoNL) +15secs
8. Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol/Team Sky) Same time
9. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor/Dimension Data) +16secs
10. Nikias Arndt (Ger/Sunweb) Same time
Germany's Marcel Kittel won a sprint finish to take the second stage of the Tour de France as Britain's Geraint Thomas retained the yellow jersey.
Defending champion Chris Froome crashed in the wet conditions, 30km from the finish, but resumed and finished the stage in 37th place.
Mark Cavendish, who is chasing Eddy Merckx's record 34 stage wins, was fourth with Ben Swift in seventh.
Thomas, who was 35th, leads Swiss rider Stefan Kung by five seconds.
Kittel is a second further back in third with Froome 12 seconds behind Thomas in sixth.
Three-time champion Froome was one of a number to crash, including Thomas, as the peloton came off a roundabout and was forced to stop for a bike change.
The Team Sky rider said he was fine after the 203.5km stage from Dusseldorf to Liege and had avoided any serious injury.
"Just lost a little bit of skin from my backside," he told ITV4. "That's the nature of the race. We knew it's slippery conditions like that, every time the race comes on there's a big risk something could happen and today there was just a touch of wheels, or someone slid just a few wheels ahead of me, and at those speeds you just can't avoid it.
"I think a few of us went down but thankfully everybody's OK and got to the finish all right without losing any time to our rivals, so that's the main thing."
Thomas, who had won the opening time trial on Saturday, said: "We were all in a decent position, but a few guys came past us pretty quickly and slid and we all just went down.
"We got up pretty quickly though. Anything can happen and I wouldn't take anything for granted. Tomorrow is another day and we will be doing all we can for Froome."
Monday's third stage from Verviers to Longwy is 212.5km long with a number of short climbs.
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