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The Ag2R team look thoughtful as they await a decision on the smog and rain predicted for today...
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Adriano Baffi explains to the Trek team what the official decision is - a shortened stage finishing atop the last climb...
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The BMC team are all ears as they realise the change makes it better for them...
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Thomas Dekker emerges from the hotel lobby complete with a breathing mask, a home-made one..!
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Laurent Mangel leads the day's only escape as the rain stops and the roads dry out...
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For a tough Russian, Ivan Rovny looks to have overreacted to the cold weather...
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Rigoberto Uran looks to have gone soft too, or is he just playing hide n' seek..?!
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The uphill finish might just suit Simon Yates today...
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The uphill finish might just suit Dan Martin as well..!
Sam Bewley chases for Orica-Green Edge with the gap barely at two-minutes...
Yannick Elijssen chases for BMC - that escape has no chance of staying away today..!
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Fabio Silvetsre leads the escape towards the first climb with about 90-seconds in hand over the chasers...
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The peloton climbs the longest hill of the day, before the hardest hill of the day...
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Ben Swift is on bottle duty today, his famous sprint not of much use on the uphill finish...
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A Chinese worker watches the peloton speed by, as does his hard-working donkey...
Philippe Gilbert wins a shortened stage two ahead of Van Rensburg and Rui Costa..!
Esteban Chaves unpacks his training shoes to begin the processional ride to the finish...
The cyclists stay behind a pace-car for the three-kilometre ride into Yanquing...
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Gilbert just cannot stop celebrating it seems..!
And again on the finish-line, Philippe Gilbert has won stage two of the 2014 Tour of Beijing..!
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And Philippe Gilbert is also the new race-leader..!