Tour de France Stage 13: St Paul Trois Chateaux > Cap d'Agde, 217kms
A seven-man escape has got away, but they're looking back and waiting for an eighth rider - Jerome Pineau - to join them..!
Bouet, Engoulvent and Dumoulin have now put their heads down to make sure this Bastille Day escape succeeds..
The peloton races across the Pont de Saint-Esprit after about 20-kilometres...
Chris Horner and his Radio Shack team are wearing new helmets to denote their lead in the team classification...
Green Edge are chasing, and making it clear the escape cannot succeed today - but they have a seven-minute gap to close...
Peter Weening has similar trouble with a pedal - but his Green Edge mechanic fixes it the hard way...
David Zabriskie is fetching water, but it's his mechanic who loads him up with bottlles...
Ladangnous and his merry band are slowly losing their hard-earned lead - it's now less than four minutes at the halfway mark...
A Sky helper is a study in concentration as he serves his riders their lunch in the feed-zone...
Peter Weening and Brett Lancaster are chasing even harder for Green Edge...
Michael Morkov has taken off from the French-dominated escape - but there's still over 50-kilometres to go..!
Green Edge are really determined to do something in today's finale - they cannot stop chasing..!
Horner needs a quick front-wheel change...
A Saxo Bank mechanic comes to Horner's rescue with the Shack car no-where to be seen...
BMC have accelerated into the crosswinds blowing in from the sea - MIchael Schar is driving them along..!
The peloton has split into many pieces on the windswept road to Sete...
Bradley Wiggins cruises to the front of the BMC attack to quieten them down - and it works..!
Morkov is ploughing into the wind alone, but he has a one-minute lead still...
About 70 riders start the climb from Sete to the Mont Saint-Claire...
Cadel Evans has attacked with Jurgen Van Den Broeck..!
Wiggins powers up behind the attack, barely taking in breath as he does so...
Andre Greipel is only a few long seconds behind Wiggins and Evans - as are three of his teamates...
Mark Cavendish has been dropped on the steep hill - not a good sign for Sky's sprinter and Olympic hopeful...
Alexandre Vinokourov and Michele Albasini have gone away on the climb and are trying hard to stay away to the finish...
Andre Greipel wins into Cap d'Agde - it is his third stage-win of this Tour..!
