Tour de France Stage 12: Fougéres > Tours, 218kms

Five riders are away in the day's hopeful escape - Mori, Flecha, Gavazzi, Sicard and Delaplace...

Plain and simple countryside is the menu for today's peloton as it heads south to Tours...

Delaplace has the most publicity to gain amongst more illustrious company...

The peloton is already riding fast with a mghty tailwind benefitting the escape, not the chase...

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Daryl Impey gets a shove back from Neil Stephens after making a wheel change...

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Flecha seems to be relishing the attention in the escape - he's also got a lot to gain by making it successful...

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Chris Froome maintains his hydration in the midst of Sky's train...

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Surpirse, surprise, Flecha has gone solo in the last 20-kilometres..!

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Lotto chases with Argos and Sky in close-formation...

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Marcel Kittel and Mark Cavendish battle it out in Tours - and the German wins by a small margin..!

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Radio Shack's stars, Andy Schleck, Jens Voigt, Laurent Didier and Tony Gallopin arrive a few minutes later, laughing at their lack of injuries after a crash...

Boasson Hagen arrives later still, in pain after a crash, and most likely out of the Tour de France - another blow for Team Sky..!