Welcome to live coverage of stage 14 of the Tour de France, a hilly 191km slog from Saint-Pourcain-sur-Sioule to Lyon. It's hard to predict, this one, with a select field of riders possibily arriving at the finish together to contest a bunch sprint. More likely, though, is for a break to stay out all the way - especially after the dramatics yesterday.

Europcar's Thomas Voeckler is off the back of the peloton. He's had a terrible Tour so far, with just one of his trademark attacks on the Col du Pailheres which lasted all of five minutes.

We're onto the biggest climb of the day, the Cat.3 Col du Pilon - 6.3km at 4.4%. The leaders have 3:55 over the pack, with Hoogerland and Cunego riding in pursuit at two minutes. Another minute back is lone ranger Oroz.

Juan Jose Oroz also attacked on that last climb and he's riding solo in pursuit of the two chasers, Cunego and Hoogerland. Sky control the pace in the pack.

The gap is up to 3:20 for the 18 leaders, with Hoogerland and Cunego riding one minute ahead of the peloton. Thibaut Pinot is receiving some treatment from the medical car, while Philippe Gilbert is restocking up with water and getting a pull from his BMC car.

Blel Kadri, who wore the polka dot jersey for one day earlier in the race, crossed the summit in pole position ahead of Van Garderen for 2 and 1 points respectively.

ATTACK: Johnny Hoogerland and Damiano Cunego have decided that enough is enough of this slow pace and have jumped clear of the pack in pursuit of the leaders.

Straight away, the leaders are onto the third climb of the day, the Cat.3 Côte de Thizy-les-Bourgs - 1.7km at 8.2%.

Spaniard Jose Rojas takes the 20 points through the intermediate sprint. He's the most consistent rider in the Tour not to have won a stage - 26 times in the top 10 of a flat stage. That will have no affect on the green jersey standings...

The gap is up to three minutes now for the 18 escapees: Lars Bak (Lotto Belisol), Marcus Burghardt, Tejay van Garderen (both BMC), Jens Voigt, Jan Bakelants (both RadioShack), Arthur Vichot (FDJ), Cyril Gautier (Europcar), Blel Kadri (Ag2R-La Mondiale), Pavel Brutt (Katusha), Imanol Erviti, Jose Joaquin Rojas (both Movistar), Egoitz Garcia (Cofidis), Matteo Trentin (OPQS), David Millar, Andrew Talansky (Garmin), Michael Albasini (GreenEdge), Simon Geschke (Argos-Shimano), Julien Simon (Sojasun).

The next 'challenge' of the day will be the intermediate sprint ahead of two back-to-back Cat.3 climbs.

Jan Bakelandts, winner of stage two back in Corsica, edges clear of the leaders to take the single point at the top of the climb. The 18 leaders have 2:30 over the pack, which has at it's head the Sky team of yellow jersey Chris Froome. It's a sight we haven't been used to for quite a while.

The peloton pass through the feedzone as the leaders approach the second climb of the day, the Cat.4 Côte de la Croix Couverte - 2.5km at 5.3%. The gap is up to 2:10 for the escapees.

It looks like the peloton have have sat up under the instruction of Team Sky - because the gap has suddently jumped to 1:30.

Right on cue, back in the pack, Dutch champion Johnny Hoogerland comes to the front of the peloton for Vacansoleil. While Italy haven't got a stage win since 2010, the Dutch's barren run stretches even further back - to 2005, when Pieter Weening won stage eight in Gerardmer.

Jens Voigt, 41, is really grimacing. It's the German's 302nd stage on the Tour de France - and his 16th consecutive Tour. Jens has worn the yellow jersey twice for single days in the 2001 and 2005 Tours, plus won a stage in 2006.

There are no Vacansoleil riders in the break either - but the Dutch team are contributing nothing to the chase. They were active this morning in trying to bring the initial four escapees to heel, but have since disappeared. Thomas de Gendt said this morning that all of the team were eager to get into a break, so either something went wrong - or they're holding themselves back for later in the stage.

The gap is down to 45 seconds so the peloton is really not giving the break any headway. Team Sky are tucked in just behind three Euskaltel riders who are setting the pace. The yellow jersey Chris Froome doesn't want to miss any tricks like he did yesterday.

Simon Geschke of Argos Shimano takes the solitary point over the top.

The leaders are onto the first climb of the day, the Cat.4 Côte de Marcigny - 1.9km 4.9%.

The 18 leaders have one minute over the pack, which is still being driven by Lampre and Euskaltel.

Still no stage wins on this year's Tour for Italy, Spain or France. The last time that happened was in the Belgian-dominated 1926 Tour. In fact, Italy have not won a stage on the Tour de France since Alessandro Petacchi won stage four in 2010 in Reims. That's pretty extraordinary.