Tour de Suisse - Stage 7
Peter Sagan is back in his arc-en-ciel jersey and possibly negotiating a contract for 2017...
Austria's Matthias Brandle is leading an escape towards Austria with optimism for a stage-win there...
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Sagan is alight today, he's remonstrating with the Team Roth manager after one of its riders attacked during a mass nature stop...
The peloton is in Austria and heading towards some nasty climbs...
Sylvester Szmyd has managed to get a cup of coffee from his team car on this extra-long stage...
Tyler Farrar is about to collect water bottles for all four of his Dimension Data teamates...
Farrar is sporting some heavy-duty rain protection for his shoes - but it's not going to rain, is it..?
Fresh snows lie high above the peloton as it starts the long climb to Hochtannbergpass...
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The Austrian scenery is stunning after the overnight snow - but the racing is getting serious now..!
Whichever way you look or pedal, the Austrian mountains are illuminated by snow and sunshine...
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Jumbo-Lotto are doing the bulk of the chasing for now, but the escape is still eleven minutes in front...
Antwan Tolhoek is heading towards more mountain points today...
The peloton is strung out as it discovers more scenery in a quiet valley...
The Hochtannbergpass is almost conquered by the Tour de Suisse, but there's more great scenery to come..!
Giant-Alpecin have taken over the chasing from Jumbo, and the gap starts to come down...
Matthew Hayman is enjoying a descending competition with ex-teamate Peter Weening...
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Brandle and Keisse have pulled away from Tolhoek and head towards Solden with a nine-minute lead...
Astana chases now, with Smukulis in charge...
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Wilco Kelderman looks comfortable enough in his race-leader's jersey...
Brandle has dropped keisse at the start of the final climb and attempts to win the stage for Austria...
Vasil Kiryienka is leading Geraint Thomas and a small group of favourites about four minutes back on Brandle...
Kelderman is in trouble now - he'll lose about two minutes today...
Kiryienka is still pacing Thomas as the rain starts to fall on the race...
Sergey Chernetski makes an attack with seven-kilometres to go...
Brandle is about to be caught now, it's been a long hard day in the saddle for him..!
Tejay Van Garderen makes a sudden attack with five--kilometres left..!
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Warren Barguil has attacked as well, but he's not closing-in on Van Garderen...
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Andrew Talansky makes a move as well, he needs to stay close to Barguil to have a chance of winning the Tour de Suisse..!
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Simon Spilak has a go as well, but Talansky is going after him...
Miguel Angel Lopez is the next to go - and he makes a clean getaway..!
Tejay Van Garderen wins stage seven beneath the Rettenbachferner glaciar..!
Lopez takes second, having caught Barguil during the run-in...
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Jarlinson Pantano takes fourth place, 31-seconds down...
Talansky takes fifth, 33-seconds down...
Thomas takes eleventh place, and over one-minute down..!
Warren Barguil is the new race-leader of the Tour de Suisse..!