Sylvain Chavanel has gone on the attack right away..!
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Chavanel has been caught by an elite group containing Boasson Hagen, Rogers, Gilbert, Nibali and even Wiggins - it's been a mad start to the day..!
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Dan Martin is suffering like a dog at the back of the strung-out peloton - luckily, the Sky-led escape relents...
Tiago Machado is trying to get away in another escape - but this too fails...
Bradley Wiggins looks on calmly, even though he has Vincenzo Nibali watching him like a hawk...
Christophe Kern leads the escape that has been allowed to race away...
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The peloton finds some delight along the heights of the Ardeche mountains...
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Kanstantsin Siutsou is the man chasing hard for Sky - all eight of them are on the front now..!
Nicholas Vogondy makes a lightening wheel-change on the long descent...
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Biel Kadri has found amusement at the roadside as the escape climbs the Col du Lalouvesc with a three-minute lead...
Siutsou is still chasing, almost two hours after he started chasing..!
Tony Martin looks mean and lean in his last test before the Tour de France...
Andy Schleck looks lean, but less mean, a few weeks before his vital Tour de France...
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Moncoutie leads the escape into the last 15-kilometres, but the traffic behind indicates a chase is getting close...
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Anthony Roux is the man chasing - can FDJ pull this one off..?
Saur Sojasun are chasing madly now - they want their man Coppel to win today..!
Daniel Moreno wins the uphill sprint into Saint Felicien ahead of Julian Simon and Tony Gallopin...
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