Tour de France - Stage 1
Tour de France - Stage 1
What it's all about - the peloton rides towards the Mont Saint Michel for the official start...
Tour de France - Stage 1
The French air-force makes its special send-off to the Tour de France...
Tour de France - Stage 1
The peloton now leaves the Mont Saint-Michel under the escort of the race-director's car...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Leigh Howard leads a trio of escapers away in the opening kilometres...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Paul Voss has attacked from the trio and is going after maximum climbing points...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Howes is now leading a quartet of chasers at one-minute...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Thomas De Gendt leads a quiet chase in behalf of Lotto-Soudal - the gap is almost at five-minutes...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Chris Froome looks relaxed enoigh as the peloton tackles a gentle descent...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Ilnur Zakarin is carrying water bottles for a team where's he's joint-leader...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Mark Cavendish is happy to be back at the Tour - he might even win today..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Paris-Roubaix winner Matthew Hayman is also in the Tour - but working for Michael Matthews...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Peter Sagan looks like a true World Champion - but will he swap his rainbow jersey for Green any day soon..?
Tour de France - Stage 1
Dutch champion Dylan Groenewegen is riding his first Tour at the age of 23 - but he too could win the stage..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Mark Cavendish makes a wheel change, and finds his exit partly blocked by the 'live' TV moto...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Bernhard Eisel makes sure Cavendish makes it back to the peloton quickly...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Howes lesds the quintet of escapers still - they are about three-minutes in front...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Fabio Aru has a week of racing on dangerous roads before the apparent freedom of the Pyrenees...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Some flags reveal the strength of the crosswinds as the race speeds up after the feed-zone...
Tour de France - Stage 1
The crosswinds have shelled abourt 20 riders out of the back with 100-kilometres still to go..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Little Domenica Pozzovivo is the first to be blown backwards...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Alberto Contador has crashed into a concrete median - his teamates all drop back for him...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Contador is hurting badly as his teamates pace him back to the peloton...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Team Sky have stayed out of trouble near the front - and they've slowed the peloton to help Contador get back...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Howes and Delaplace are the only ones in front with 40-kilometres left...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Etixx and Lotto continue to chase, albeit very gently...
Tour de France - Stage 1
Delaplace and Howes are starring on TV, as they have been for many hours..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Howes and Delaplace are still hanging out with a 30-secoinds lead and 15-kilometres to go...
Tour de France - Stage 1
It's a bust-up at Utah Beach between Cavendish the Brit, and two Germans in Kittel and Greipel..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Mark Cavendish wins stage one of the Tour de France..!
Tour de France - Stage 1
Chris Froome leads a small group in 23-seconds later, but they are all in the same time as Cavendish...
Tour de France - Stage 1
A dream come true - Mark Cavendish wears his first-ever Maillot Jaune as race-leader of the Tour de France..!
