GP Camaiore 2014
The peloton leaves the start in Mantes-la-Jolie under heavenly skies...
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Christophe Laborie has escaped right away - he has a lonely day ahead of him..!
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Spring has sprung for the cyclists of Paris-Nice..!
Zdenek Stybar looks spring-like just six weeks after becoming World Cyclo-Cross champion...
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Laborie has attained about a ten-minute lead, but he's no danger to anyone today...
Plenty of time for Matt Goss and Sebastian Langeveld to have a laugh, as ex-teamates do...
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Andy Schleck cruises through a downhill bend with Jacob Fuglsang alongside him...
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Taylor Phinney has a sore knee from a crash last weekend - he's in need of some tlc...
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FDJ is the first team to start chasing...
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Young Simon Yates chases for Orica-Green Edge...
The scenery of northern France is still out-weighing the racing today...
Laborie has won all three climbs of the day, but he's about to get caught with 50-kilometres to go...
So professional - Matthew Hayman gets a wheel change at the same time as getting his lunch...
2014 Paris - Nice cycling race - 1st stage
Maxime Monfort untangles his bike after a series of falls in the peloton...
The Giant-Shimano team is out in front and thinking of the finish, not the crashes behind them...
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Simon Gerrans is on his way to losing one-minute after being delayed...
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Frank Schleck is another rider scheduled to lose valuable time today...
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Nacer Bouhanni wins stage one from John Degenkolb and Gianni Meersman...
Nacer Bouhanni has done rather well for a man who also crashed today..!
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Nacer Bouhanni is the first race-leader of this year's Race to the Sun..!