He's not camera-shy! Mark Cavendish poses for photographers before the start...
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The peloton races out into the Normandie countryside...
David Moncoutie leads a three-man ecape that will build an eight-minute lead...
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The peloton hits the coast of Northern France near Le Treport...
The landscape is dotted with wind-machines, but there's no wind blowing today..
Robert Hunter is still licking his wounds after a stage-one crash - as are many of his Garmin teamates..!
The peloton climbs above the cliffs of the Normandie coastline...
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Ivan Basso, Vincenzo Nibali and Manuel Quinziato make the most of this un-official day off...
Frank Schleck and Levi Leipheimer are in deep discussion too...
Jesn Voigt IS doing some work for Radio Shack, the chase has begun..!
Are the sideburns of Bradley Wiggins actually getting longer..?
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Denis Menchiov swoops down a descent - the Russian looks in good shape these days...
The summer sunshine has brought out the best in French fans' humour...
Arashiro leads the escape into the last 50-kilometres of the stage with a five-minute lead...
Lotto are doing most of the chasing now, and they'll soon be grateful they did...
Andre Greipel seems to be winning the sprint, but half the other sprinters have crashed inside the three-kilometre-to-go mark...
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Andre Greipel wins stage four ahead of Petacchi and Veelers with Sagan fifth...
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Cavendish crosses the line many minutes later after that crash - he now lies 60 points behind Sagan in the battle for the Green Jersey...