Peter Sagan won his fourth green jersey at the 2015 Tour de France even if the race organisers ASO introduced a new points system in order to give the sprinters a fighting chance of beating the Slovakian. The Tinkoff-Saxo rider finished the race with a 104 point advantage over André Greipel (Lotto-Soudal), who won four stages this year.

Three-time green jersey winner Robbie McEwen explained according to Cyclingnews that the route of this edition is one of the reason of his victory in the points classification. "On this year’s Tour course it made Sagan basically impossible to beat. He still had to perform; he was there in every single big sprint in the first two or three. Even when Cav or Greipel were winning, Sagan was there in second."

Sagan was part of the breakaway, amassing maximum points at the intermediate sprint and always present in bunch sprint. He finished five times at the second place. "It’s got to be very frustrating for him but maybe some days instead of going in those breakaways he might have been better saving some energy, sitting back and maybe concentrating on few stages. I think he recovers very well but every time he goes he’s a little less the next day, still super strong but he’s a little bit less. He’s just chipping away at his own form. If he didn’t do that then he’d probably have more chance of winning a stage."