Welcome to live coverage of stage 13 of the Tour de France, a largely pan-flat 173km trek through the Tourraine and Berry regions from Tours to Saint-Amand-Montrond, which is pretty much dead in the centre of France. It's another day for the big bunch sprinters to come out and play... which generally means a win for Marcel Kittel is on the cards.
Tour de France
Stage 13 | Flat | Men | 12.07.2013
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Updated 12/07/2013 at 15:17 GMT
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Win number 25 for Mark Cavendish - but the story of the day was those crosswinds and splits... quite astonishing stuff.
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New top five: 1. Froome, 2. Mollema +2:28, 3. Contador 2:45, 4. Kreuziger 2:48, 5. Ten Dam +3:01
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Valverde will drop out of the top ten tonight - his group are set to arrive eight minutes in arrears, maybe more...
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The yellow jersey group crosses the line 1:08 down! Andre Greipel leads them over, and that's a big loss for Chris Froome...
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Mark Cavendish takes an easy win ahead of Peter Sagan, with Bauke Mollema in third.
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CAVENDISH TOO STRONG! A second win for the Manxman...
0,5km
Chavanel leading out the sprinters - who has the legs?
1km
Back together under trhe banner... now Chavanel on the front with Sagan and Cav on his wheel.
1.5km
With Sagan marking Cavendish at teh back, Niki Terpstra goes for a long one!
2km
Now it's getting a bit tactical because it's not just Saxo wanting to maintain the gap, but OPQS and Cannondale sniffing out the stage win...
3km
It's still a Saxo-Tinkoff time trial on the front as we enter the final three kilometres....
4km
Eight minutes for the Valverde group now! All because of an untimely puncture...
6km
Froome has no Sky team-mates left - they have all blown, with the exception of Geraint Thomas it seems. But the yellow jersey is on his own, 10 back, in the pack. The gap is now one minute.
7km
The leaders have 55 seconds now on this uphill grind. Cavendish is digging deep and looks knackered, with Sagan in his wheel.
8km
Still Saxo drives the pace - and Contador is right to urge on the others, for Belkin's Mollema and Ten Dam will rise up in the standings too.
9km
We're approaching that climb and Sagan is coming foward while Contador is rallying the group, urging them not to give up.
10km
Under the 10-to-go banner and the leaders have 40 seconds.
11km
Remember, there's that small climb coming just up before the finish. OPQS may launch Chavanel as a Plan B - while Sagan could go for a long one too...
13km
Lotto Belisol are also trying to close the gap for their man Greipel. Froome has a stony expression as he rides in the wheel of Greipel. Saxo are driving hard, but the gap is still 38 seconds so it's not getting any bigger.
14km
Sky have three riders leading the chase and they have reduced the gap to 40 seconds. The Valverde/Kittel group is more than six minutes in arrears now, with the Voeckler grupetto at almost 10 minutes.