Paris-Nice - Stage 7
The peloton sets off from Nice and passes the famous Negresco hotel on the Promenade des Anglais...
Sylvain Chavanel leads a 20-man escape towards the hills...
Antoine Duchesne is an escape for the third stage in a row - and planning on keeping his mountains' leadership...
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Team Sky leads the peloton over a picturesque bridge...
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Tanel Kangert leads the escape through a narrow tunnel as the advantage rises to three minutes...
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Team Sky is still leading the peloton on the Cote de Levens...
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Luke Rowe chases harder now, the gap has got a bit too big...
Geraint Thomas looks cool under the pressure of race-leader...
Daryl Impey is in the escape, but today he's working for Simon Yates, not Michael Matthews...
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Tobias Ludvigsson has given a wheel to teamate Dumoulin - and now needs a new one for himself...
Alexey Lutsenko has crashed on the way up the Cote de Peille....
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Alberto Contador attacks halfway up the steep ascent of the Cote de Peille...
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Thomas should be feeling the pressure more, but it's his Sky teamates that look worried..!
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Michael Matthews has been dropped by the acceleration, but he's as good as won the Points competition...
Contador is forty-seconds ahead of the Sky peloton and closing in on two teamates in the escape...
Kiserlovski and Trofimov now lead Contador towards Nice and the final climb - but Sky will bring Thomas back for a second chance at winning the race...
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Up ahead on the Col d'Eze, Tim Wellens starts to attack...
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Wellens is away on the Col d'Eze and holding on to a 35-seconds lead...
Contador has attacked Thomas and is coming across to Wellens with Richie Porte on his wheel...
Contador accelerates again with Porte and Wellens barely able to follow...
Contador starts the long descent to Nice with a 30-seconds lead over Thomas...
Simon Yates is just 20-seconds behind Contador's trio...
Thomas starts the long descent before closing the gap to almost nothing by the finish-line..!
Tim Wellens wins stage seven into Nice...
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Thomas finishes behind Bardet and Izaguirre, totally shattered by the effort to win - which he has!
Geraint Thiomas on stage seven of the 2016 Paris-Nice
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