The BMC team contained four members of their World Championship winning team, and Oss, van Garderen, Taylor Phinney and Manuel Quinzato demonstrated their prowess as they took the the lead away from the Tony Martin-powered Etixx-QuickStep, who finished two seconds down.
Thibaut Pinot's FDJ team turned in an impressive performance, finishing in third place, nine seconds back, giving Pinot a good launchpad to mount a challenge for the blue jersey.
Tinkoff, containing world champion Peter Sagan, ended the day in fourth place, 11 seconds behind BMC, with IAM Cycling rounding out the top five a further second down.
It was a disappointing day for Orica-GreenEdge, however, as they could only manage to sneak into the top 10, finishing 9th, with a 25 second gap to the leaders.
The big losers, however, were Cannondale, who had three riders - including Rigoberto Uran - crash early on, finishing in last place, with a deficit of 2:03.
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Stage winner and GC leader Daniel Oss (BMC): “It’s amazing,” said Oss as he waited to receive the blue jersey. “It was one of the objectives for the team win the first stage because we have an amazing team for the TTT. But we also have some amazing climbers like Tejay for the GC, so this is a good start.”
Stage Results
1. BMC Racing Team 0:23;55
2. Etixx-QuickStep + :02
3. FDJ + :09
General Classification
1. Daniel Oss (BMC) 00:23:55
2. Tejay van Garderen (BMC) + :0
3. Greg Van Avermaet (BMC) + :0
4. Taylor Phinney (BMC) + :0
5. Manuel Quinziato (BMC) + :0
6. Damiano Caruso (BMC) + :0
7. Gianluca Brambilla (EQS) + :02
8. Yves Lampaert (EQS) + :2
9. Bob Jungels (EQS) + :2
10. Zdenek Stybar (EQS) + :2
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