Tour de France 2017: Peter Sagan makes incredible blunder recovery as foot accidentally slips out of pedal before he sprints to stage three win

PETER SAGAN showed why he is cycling’s brightest superstar as he made a staggering blunder, but recovered to win anyway.

The Slovakian slipped out of his pedal in the closing metres as he was leading a final climbing sprint.

But despite a closing peloton, he managed to clip back in and win the sprint anyway, proving he in the sport’s genuine rockstar.

Geraint Thomas remained in the Yellow Jersey after stage three’s climbing finish to Longwy and Chris Froome moved up to second overall, 12sec back on his Sky team-mate.

Sagan, 27, admitted he had almost blown his chances, but appeared to brush off the blunder in his post-race interview.

He simply said: “What is pressure? I don’t know what it is.

“After I decided OK I go, there was 300m to go, in that moment I said ‘you’ve gone too early.’

“I start my sprint, I push and push my foot out of the cleat and it was another mistake.

“But I started again and I won.”

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Thomas said: "Another day down, it's good to get through days like that unscathed.

"Obviously from the time trial I've got some decent power, but I think I'm just a little bit heavier that what I was going into the Giro.

"I can still do a good job but I'll probably end up losing the jersey on that stage [stage four], hopefully to Froomie.

"It'll be nice to pass it on to him but obviously it'll be nice to keep wearing the jersey."