 In June, he was in full preparation for the Tour de France as he participated to the Critérium du Dauphiné.He won stage seven, the queen stage, thanks to two consecutive attacks on the last climb of the day, one to shed the leading group and another one to get rid of Tejay van Garderen, who had resisted the first one.On the stage, he repeated the exploit of winning solo while putting enough time into van Garderen to win the overall classification as well.