This Tour de France was dark for Australia’s Orica GreenEDGE team. All the cyclists went down in a massive crash except for Adam yates, Pieter Weening and Svein Tuft. Michael Matthews suffered to hang on to the race as it headed toward Amiens on Wednesday. Simon Gerrans and Daryl Impey are now watching from home with a broken wrist and collarbone, respectively.

"We haven’t packed our bags to go home!" Sport director Matt White told VeloNews. "The next target? We need to wait and see. The atmosphere wasn’t too bad the other night in Huy. It’s been a horrible year for ‘Gerro,’ but he’s going to bounce back. Obviously, it was disappointing to have the guys out of the race, but it’s sport. You have to adapt to it. The teams that adapt to it best are the successful ones."

If he is healed, Matthews could to compete on the Mur de Bretagne the next weekend. But about the team time trial, this sounds more complicated, but White remains confident. "We are a good TTT team with or without Simon Gerrans and Daryl Impey,” White continued. "It doesn’t help our chances to have seven [now six riders after Albasini’s abandonment], but other teams have to get there as well. A good example is when with Garmin in 2009, Astana beat us to second. We had five riders left after 11 kilometers over a long time trial. It’s not to our advantage, but we are still going to go for it."