Tour de France stage 13: St Etienne > Chamrousse, 197.5kms

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Daniel Oss leads an escape of 15 or so riders away...

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The peloton is in single file and chasing hard as it passes some wilting sunflowers...

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Rudy Molard is the Cofidis representative in the escape, though he's working for his leader, Danny Navarro...

There's not an iphone in sight as Luca Paolini chases for Katusha and for Joaquin Rodriguez...

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Alessandro De Marchi has left the escape behind on the penultimate ascent of the day...

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Biel Kadri is chasing De Marchi with Jan Bakelandts on his wheel...

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De Marchi is still out in front on the final climb to Chamrousse, but not by much...

Tanel Kangerts is the sole Astana rider chasing for Vincenzo Nibali ahead of a pack of other team-leaders...

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Tejay Van Garderen on stage thirteen of the 2014 Tour de FRance

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Leopold Konig has moved ahead of the rest with Rafal Majka - about 10-kilometres remains to the top...

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Alejandro Valverde puts in a spurt to reduce the size of the favourites' group...

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Jurgen Van den Broeck is chasing Nibali and Valverde, with nine others on his wheel...

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Richie Porte has blown up with eight-kilometres to go, the Australian will lose over eight-minutes by the finish..!

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Thibaut Pinot piles on the pressure ahead of Nibali, Valverde, Mollema and Bardet...

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Konig and Majka have been joined by Nibali in the last five-kilometres...

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Nibali is showing his prowess ahead of Konig and Majka, and he's about to drop them...

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Nibali looks supreme as he pedals away from his rivals for overall victory...

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Vincenzo Nibali wins stage thirteen and increases his overall advantage to around four-minutes..!

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Alejandro Valverde finishes 50-seconds down but moves into 2nd-place overall, 3' 37" back...

Thibaut Pinto finishes 53-seconds down, and is now 4th overall at 4' 40"...

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Tejay Van Garderen finsishes with Bardet, 1' 23" down on the winner - but both men are in contention for a final podium spot...

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