Tour de Suisse Stage 7: Biel > Düdingen, 152.5kms

There's a train coming - but on a different carriageway to the Tour de Suisse cyclists...

World Champion Michal Kwiatkowski leads a quartet of escapers clear...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Already three-minutes down, Nikolai Trusov leads a Tinkoff chase of the powerful escape...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Alex Domont is in the escape for the second consecutive day, and this might be the escape with a happy ending..!

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Also in the escape is Daryl Impey, who's sharing a joke with his Orica-Green Edge support crew - because it shouldn't have been him in the escape!

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

The peloton speeds across a reservoir near the start of the finishing circuit in Dudingen...

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Thibaut Pinot is well protected by his FDJ teamates, for now...

The peloton speeds between wheatfields on a very summery day in Switzerland...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Yuk..the peloton races through an industrial zone, and over railway lines, before re-finding the scenery Switzerland is famous for...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Impey leads the escape towards the finish-line with two more laps to go...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Matti Breschel and Tinkoff have accelerated, causing chaos at the back of the peloton...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Pinot shows signs of hurting as the peloton speeds up a steep hill...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Mark Cavendish might be hoping for a stage-win if the escsape gets caught, or he might be hoping Kwiatkowski wins instead..!

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Silvan Dillier leads Impey and Kwiatkowski into the wind with 35-kilometres to go - they might yet stay away..!

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Rafal Majka leads the chase up the final climb, where Degenkolb sits and suffers on Sagan's wheel...

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Good publicity for some, the peloton returns to the industrial park again - bad publicity for the Tour de Suisse...

Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Kwiatkowski is fighting to keep the trio away in the final 10-kilometres, but their lead is less than one-minute now...

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Alexander Kristoff and Peter Sagan sprint for the line, it'll be a close-call who's won..!

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Tour de Suisse - Stage 7

Alexander Kristoff wins stage seven despite a late lunge from Peter Sagan...

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