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Not many sprinters in that supposed intermediate sprint. Cyril Gautier takes it - he's 39th in the points classification to give you an idea of how little it affects the standings. Peter Sagan still holds a big and bouncy 104-point lead at the top.

The peloton has slowed right down and is now 1min 55secs down on the front group. That has allowed all the stragglers to catch up, including Chris Froome's team-mates Nick Roche and Richie Porte.

I know these roads very well. Beautiful, flat, blustery Cambridge roads.

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In out in out shake it all about. There's relentless activity on the flat to Epierre.

A  group with Joaquim Rodriguez and Romain Bardet in it has moved about 45 seconds clear. Peter Sagan's not there, so he won't be among the sprint points.

It's a one-man race up top. Pierre Rolland is left on his own as Romain Bardet, Rigoberto Uran and Joaquim Rodriguez are reeled in. The gap is small though - just a few seconds.

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Chris Froome has got the familiar Welsh face of Geraint Thomas back alongside him, which will be a massive relief. But the disintegration of Team Sky at the top of that first climb is a worry for the yellow jersey man. There's 30km or so of flatty flat flat, including a sprint, before we head to the heavens again and find out if it was a one off.

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Stage 18 winner Romain Bardet and Rigoberto Uran have gone for a stretch on the descent. It's a tad moist up there, so the pace is slow. Chris Froome is just behind with his GC rivals and pretty much everyone else.

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Joaquim Rodriguez goes clear at the top of the climbers' classification, after reaching the top Col du Chaussy first. That's 10 points for Purito.

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Chris Froome is running out of team-mates. Richie Porte seems to be struggling and is off the pace. And while Froome has got among Valderde and Contador at the front, Geraint Thomas and Leopold Konig are finding it difficult to hold on. Froome has just Wouter Poels with him.

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So much going on already. Vincenzo Nibali, Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde have all brudged the gap to the front group. That's upped the pace of the yellow jersey group, and there's a few who have fallen off the back - namely Peter Sagan, Mark Cavendish and Andre Greipel. Not a day to be a sprinter.

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The race for the spots has a bit more spice.

Joaquim Rodriguez won the first five climbs yesterday to take hold of the polka dots outright.

Romain Bardet won the last two climbs to level it up on points, but 'Purito' clings on to the jersey through a count-back on who has won the most high category climbs.

Don't count out Jakob Fuglsang either, who was more than a bit miffed yesterday when he got knocked off by a race motorbike.

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So, to refresh your memory, it's as you were in the GC standings, with Chris Froome maintaining that 3mins 10secs lead over Nairo Quintana on stage 18.

Romain Bardet's burst yesterday moved him into the top 10, but other than that there's no change.

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