Lotto leads the peloton out into the Midi-Pyrenees in control of the race for Andre Greipel and the up-coming points sprint...
On the Col de Portet-Aspet, 60-kilometres down the road, the Fabio Casartelli family and race-officials remember Casartellli's death in the Tour 20-years earlier...
Lieuwe Westra is again in the early escape - except this one is already ten-minutes ahead on the Col de la Core..!
Louis Meintjes and Mikael Cherel also form part of this 23-man breakaway...
Michal Kwiatkowski has taken off from the big escape and made a little one with Sep Vanmarcke and Georg Preidler...
Ian Stannard is already hard at work for Team Sky, but the gap has grown to twelve minutes with 80-kilometres left...
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Leopold Konig carries water bottles and ice-cubes to his teamates - it's boiling hot in the valleys..!