07.23 - Tour de France: Stage 18

Today's escape features four men - Daniel Oss, Jacob Fulgsang, Benoit Vaugrenard and Jerome Pineau

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Levi Leipheimer spends the free time explaining time trialling to Andy Schleck...

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The quartet enters the region called Landes with a four-minute advantage...

Thor Hushovd is paced back to the peloton on a day that could be crucial for his Green jersey ambitions...

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The big forests of the Landes have been been trimmed somewhat...

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Hushovd talks tactics with Garmin's David Millar...

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Mark Cavendish has enrolled Brad Wiggins as his lead-out man today...

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Lance Armstrong is posing for Radio Shack's new behind-the-scenes photographer...

Well, well, the new photographer is Lance's son, Luke - it's an inside job..!

Andy Schleck seeks some care and attention from the race doctor - for a sore bottom...

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There's a big party coming in Paris for the Aussies - led by Stuart O'Grady, Michael Rogers, and Matthew Lloyd - or maybe it's starting early..?

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Milram, Lampre and Columbia are chasing the escape through the Landes forests, what's left of them...

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This is a leisurely bottle-fetching day for riders like Johan Van Summeren...

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The peloton looks fast but it is just a photographic illusion...

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Team Columbia has upped the pace a little with 45-kilometres to go...

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Milram seem to be confident - and they're fast enough to cause the peloton to split in the wind...

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Oss has taken a flier with 15-kilometres left, he has about one minute's advantage...

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Team Sky has led out the sprint from a few kilometres back, but their chief rival seems to have seized the moment...

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Mark Cavendish wins stage eighteen by a mile - it shouldn't be this easy..!

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Alberto Contador is two days away from winning the Tour de France...

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