Hello and welcome along to our live coverage of stage 14 of the Tour de France. Today's route takes the riders 181.5km from Blagnac to Rodez and rolls gently for much of the day, so it should be won by an all-rounder, and possibly out of the breakaway.

Hollenstein is currently 1min 20sec behind the front four and 1min 20sec ahead of the peloton, so he is exactly halfway to making it across the gap. Still a lot of work for him to do and this is a big, big effort he's putting in.

Team Sunweb have been prominent on the front of the peloton already, so you already get the impression they will want to bring this break back and later in the day and sent up a bunch finish for Matthews.

The Katusha-Alpecin rider is Reto Hollenstein. This could be a bit too late because the breakaway quartet are now 1min 42sec up the road.

The breakaway's lead has immediately ballooned to 1min 20sec, so this is definitely the escape of the day. But as I write, a Katusha-Alpecin rider attacks off the front and seems intent on joining the leaders.

Timo Roosen (Team LottoNL-Jumbo) and Maxime Bouet (Fortuneo-Oscaro) have joined Voeckler and De Gendt in the break, and it looks like they will be allowed to go clear because a couple of teams have blocked off the front of the peloton and the gap is now growing steadily.

The flag drops and racing is underway. Four riders have attacked in the hope of forming a breakaway, but they only have a small lead over the peloton at the moment. They include Thomas Voeckler (Direct Energie) and Thomas De Gendt (Lotto Soudal).

Today's stage ends with a 570m climb to the finish line averaging 9.6 per cent in gradient. Van Avermaet is many people's favourite, but Michael Matthews (Team Sunweb) and Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Dimension Data) are also among the favourites.

The stage has just got underway and the riders are now making their way through the neutral zone. Racing proper is expected to start at 12.20pm.

Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing) is one of the favourites to win today's stage. Here he was at the start line in Blagnac a little earlier.

Here's how the general classification looks coming into today's stage. There is unlikely to be too much movement today given the lack of climbs on the route.

Here's the profile of today' stage.