Tour de Suisse - Stage 3
The action starts right away with attacks going up the road from Grosswangen...
Gregory Rast is in the early escape and hoping to make an impact on the stage...
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The peloton skirts the Sursee lake under leaden skies...
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Matthew Hayman is also in the escape, and helping it to a four-minute lead...
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Zdenek Stybar seems to be telling Michael Matthews to join Etixx, not Giant-Alpecin, for 2017..!
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Peter Sagan is modelling his team's alternative version of the World Champion's jersey...
Essex boy, Alex Dowsett, should feel at home in the rainy conditions of this year's Tour de Suisse..!
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Michael Schar is having a Germanic chat with fellow Swiss Fabian Cancellara, while Philippe Gilbert tries to listen in...
Lotto-Soudal chases one hour into the stage - they plan on keeping the race-lead for Jurgen Roelandts...
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Tyler Farrar is in Switzerland but competing for a Tour de France ride with Dimension Data...
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Warren Barguil is using the Tour de Suisse as his build-up to the Tour de France - which won't be all downhill..!
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Huub Duijn leads the escape towards Rheinfelden for the first of two laps - they have a three-minute lead...
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Jurgen Roelandts looks strong and composed as he climbs the first of four 3rd-category hills in the finale...
Amets Txurruka attacks from the peloton to start a game-plan by Orica-Green Edge...
Tinkoff chases Txurruka, keeping the gap and danger to a minimum...
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Txurruka is in fact drawing the peloton closer to Hayman in the escape - another crafty plan by Green Edge...
Sylvan Dillier leads a smaller escape that's dropped four riders on the first Rheinfelden circuit...
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Chris Juul-Jensen sets a fast pace on the penultimate climb of the day - but for who..?!
Michael Albasini now attacks - he'll get across to the escape on this hill and join Hayman...
Hayman now sets a rapid pace with Albasini tucked in at the back - they lead by about 45-seconds...
Paris-Roubaix winner Hayman is now climbing to his very limits to keep the escape clear, but Peter Sagan is coming from behind...
Albasini is clear with Dillier and Bystrom, but Sagan is just ten-seconds back and about to join them...
Sagan, Albasini and Dillier have just stayed away to fight out the final sprint..!
Peter Sagan wins stage three ..!
Peter Sagan becomes the new race-leader of the Tour de Suisse..!