Welcome to live coverage of stage 10 of the Tour de France - a flat 197km schlep through Brittany from Saint-Gildas-des-Bois to Saint-Malo, which should give an opportunity for the sprinters to return to the fray after the pre-rest day battering in the Pyrenees.
Tour de France
Stage 10 | Flat | Men | 09.07.2013
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Updated 09/07/2013 at 19:16 GMT
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No change in the overall standings with Chris Froome coming over the line safely to conserve his yellow jersey ahead of tomorrow's individual time trial.
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The Argos man who went down was Tom Vellers. Mark Cavendish was shaking his head as he crossed the line, but he looked to have been at fault there...
0km
The Argos Shimano spinter powers through from far back to pip his German counterpart Andre Greipel for the win, with Cavendish well back for third and Sagan fourth.
0km
VICTORY FOR MARCEL KITTEL!
0.2km
CRASH: An Argos-Shimano man goes down after a clash of shoulders with Cavendish!
0.5km
Steegmans now leads out Cavendish - but the Manxman has lost his wheel!
1km
Sagan is completely alone - his Cannondale team-mates have messed this one up.
2km
Lotto are really cranking it up on the front, but the green jersey of Sagan is edging forward.
3km
And now Lotto-Belisol take it up - so all the big sprinters' teams are primed for this one.
4km
Michal Kwiatkowski drives the pace for OPQS, with Saxo finally turning off the gas and giving way to Argos-Shimano.
5km
Now GreenEdge take it on on the front - can they deliver their man Matt Goss to the line? He's one of the sprinters who has yet to take a win so far...
6km
Last burst for Mate and then Simon, but it's all over, the break is caught!
7km
David Millar now peels off the front and drops well off the back of the peloton, his work for the day done. He'll be an outside tip for the time trial tomorrow, surely?
8km
None of the four leaders wants to give up despite the peloton's presence breathing down their necks...
10km
Argos-Shimano are trying to form their train - they have five or six riders near the front for their man Marcel Kittel. Millar and Martin are the for Garmin, trying to negate the winds.
12km
Just 18 seconds for the four escapees now as Jerome Cousin has another dig in a bid to put off the inevitable.
14km
Pierre Rolland, the polka dot jersey, is struggling on the back, with Thomas Voeckler helping him back on after losing contact in these cross winds.
16km
Saxo-Tinkoff are riding hard on the front, but a second train has formed on the left through Garmin. Some riders are off the back, including Sojasun's Brice Feillu.
17km
CRASH: Svein Tuft of GreenEdge and Andrew Talansky of Garmin come down and need new bikes.
18km
Lieuwe Westra is the first of the escapees to be reeled in. The others are 25 seconds ahead of the pack. Sky have Ian Stannard on the front with the yellow jersey in his wheel. Froome, like Saxo Bank, is being very cautious.