Tour de France - Stage 2
Bora 18 has two riders in the escape - Benedetti and Voss - and they're working the hardest to stay away...
Mark Cavendish looks intently up the road in his first minutes as race-leader of the Tour de France...
Jasper Stuyven is also in the escape, and he's already taken climbing points off Voss on the first climb...
Steven Cummings chases for Dimension Data, with the gap well over six minutes...
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Thomas Voeckler is struggling to guess his dress wear on this showery, sunny day...
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Alejandro Valverde chats with his Movistar team manager - maybe the Spaniard fancies his chances at winning today..?
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Richie Porte is looking at today's uphill finish to make his first mark on the Tour...
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Nairo Quintana isn't interested in today's uphill finish - bigger ambitions motivate the Colombian...
Marcel Kittel is borrowing the Green jersey from Mark Cavendish today, and the uphill finish does not suit the German's sprinting skills..
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Sam Bennett is still in the Tour after his crash, but he's struggling to stay with the peloton and will lose 16-minutes at the end...
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The peloton crosses a bridge somewhere in Normandy...
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Cavendish sits behind his Dimension teamates and ahead of Sagan and Kreuziger...
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Voss leads the escape, but he's lost out to Stuyven on all three climbs so far...
Direct Energie chases for Bryan Coquard with 30-kilometres to go...
Stuyven piles on the pressure in front, he's dropped Benedetti and will soon drop the other two as well...
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Ian Stannard laeads a Sky move along the seafront before Cherbourg, closing the gap to Stuyven...
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Stuyven is about to be caught within two kilometres of the finish..!
Peter Sagan and Julian Alaphilippe sprint it out for the stage-win...
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Peter Sagan has won stage two from Alaphilippe and Valverde..!
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Peter Sagan becomes the new race-leader, but his heart is still close to the Rainbow Jersey...
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