The opening weekend of the Tour de France provided plenty of thrills and some significant spills.
Peter Sagan holds the overall race lead, but Alberto Contador is already off the pace after crashes in successive days.
Here, we draw some conclusions from stages one and two…
Cavendish's class is permanent
Saturday's stage win was one of the finest of Mark Cavendish's career because it was one of the least expected.
Not only has he spent most of this season training on the track for next month's Olympic Games in Rio, but he has been dominated by Marcel Kittel over the past two or three years and it seemed unlikely he would ever reassert his authority.
So, to have crushed the German in the manner he did on one of cycling's biggest stages underlined Cavendish's status as arguably the greatest sprinter of all time.
Froome quick out of the blocks
Chris Froome started last year's Tour sharply and has done exactly the same this time.
Although Saturday's opener gave no indicator of form, the defending champion rode away from all of his rivals for overall victory in an impressive show of strength on Sunday's uphill sprint into Cherbourg.
It suggests that Froome will be at his best when the Tour reaches the Pyrenees this weekend, but it could also mean that his condition follows a similar pattern to 2015, when he started strongly but faded in the final week.
Two-horse race already?
Many predicted the Tour would a two-way battle between Froome and Nairo Quintana and, after a catastrophic opening weekend for both Contador and Richie Porte, you cannot help but feel that is now the case.
Contador is 48 seconds adrift of his rivals and badly beaten up after two crashes in two days, while Porte is 1min 45sec down after the most unfortunate of punctures on Sunday.
Against lesser opponents those deficits would be retrievable, but against Froome and Quintana, it will take a remarkable effort to regain parity, let alone move ahead.
Thomas not on form
Geraint Thomas said in Team Sky's pre-race press conference that he wasn't in the form to pursue his own general classification ambitions at the Tour, and on the evidence of stage two, that wasn't just an attempt to take the pressure off.
The Welshman lost 24 seconds on the uphill sprint into Cherbourg, which, although tough, would not normally be a finish he struggles on.
Thomas and Team Sky are hoping he will get stronger as the race wears on, but the fact is he is already playing catch-up to the likes of Froome, Quintana, Tejay van Garderen, Fabio Aru, Romain Bardet and Thibaut Pinot.
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