Career
This led to him being signed by UCI ProTour team Omega Pharma–Lotto for the 2010 season, to increase its time-trialing presence in stage races. He crashed out in the final week of the 2013 Tour de France during the time trial, falling in a slippery late-apex corner, in the same spot his family had gathered to cheer him on, with less than two kilometers to go, riding with a non-displaced fractured collarbone sustained in a prior crash the very same morning. Péraud had again been placed ninth on the general classification before the incident.
According to cyclingnews.com, Péraud responded in a composed manner concerning the incident:
"I didn"t feel that I was taking too many risks, I was descending as I know how but I was surprised by the corner.
lieutenant"s part of sport. I"m okay and it"s only a broken collarbone. lieutenant will be a relief to get home, and we"ll think about my next objective when my body recovers.”
He also recorded top-five finishes in the Tirreno-Adriatico, Volta ao Algarve, and Tour of the Basque Country.
Péraud followed this up with a strong performance in the 2014 Tour de France, where he finished in second place overall. He and Thibaut Pinot became the first Frenchmen to make the podium of the Tour de France since 1997.
In 2015, Péraud repeated his victory on the 2.HC Critérium International by winning the last stage finishing atop the Colonel de l"Ospedale.
“At the start, I thought that I would help Alexis Vuillermoz. But I attacked and I found myself alone,” said Péraud. “This victory is important after hard times and two surgeries this winter.”.
