Tour de France 2016 in charts: how Sky dominate the mountains, and Cavendish regains sprinting supremacy

Going in to the race, Froome's imperial guard of Mikel Landa, Mikel Nieve, Wout Poels, Sergio Henao and Geraint Thomas had four mountain stage wins and seven top-ten general classification finishes in grand tours, as well as more than a dozen other victories in road cycling's second tier of races. In almost any other team, any of these riders would be a team leader.