Javier Aramendia is leading a quartet of escapers away, but Niki Terpstra is at the back, meaning the escape will get chased down...
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Aramendia ploughs on in the escape with Terpstra dropping back and enabling them to ride away for some TV coverage...
With or without Terpstra in the escape, Movistar is chasing already with Pablo Lastras leading the way...
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The peloton speeds past a castle somewhere in Navarra...
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There's as much action behind as there is in front - Leonardo Duque loads up with water bottles on this dry and heavy day under the Spanish sun...
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Is Jonathan Castroviejo confused - surely as race-leader he is not going to fetch water bottles..?!
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Tom Peterson is collecting small bags of ice, a typical Garmin trick when it's really hot..!
Julian Dean is back in action after a broken leg in April - but he's still got to work and carry water bottles..!
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Ignatiev leads the escsape up the day's only climb - they have a four minute lead now...
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Peterson is now fetching bottles, he's got his hand on an icy-cold one, I think..!
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When a man's got to drink, he's got to drink - so suggests Davide Vigano...
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For some reason, FDJ's protected sprinter, Nacer Bouhanni, is carrying his own bottles as champion of France...
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For once in his life as a domestique, Ian Stannard is not fetching water-bottles, but now he is the champion of Great Britain..!
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No such luxury for the Luxembourg champion, Didier Laurent - he is working hard for his teamates today..!
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Ignatiev and Aramendia are alone in front as a few hills rise up in the last 20-kilometres...
The peloton almost has the escape in its sights now...
Lastras is still leading Movistar's chase..!
Saxo Bank now rush to the front to get Alberto Contador close to a bonus sprint if he can sprint a little..!
Sky takes over with the escape caught - there's a stage to be won today..!
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It's a three-way sprint between Allan Davis, Ben Swift and John Degenkolb...
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John Degenkolb wins stage two - is this his first big win for the Argos-Shimano team..?
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