OJ's colleagues, the two Robs - Hatch and Hayles - are in place in the BBC Radio 5 live commentary position at the finish line in Cherbourg. 

They are live from 15:00 BST on the BBC Sport website.

They've had an eventful morning with lost car keys playing a central role. I'm sure they will fill you in before taking you through to the finish.

If you're viewing this on mobile, click on the link to see roving reporter OJ Borg show how hosting Le Tour can do wonders for your roads.

The frenzied activity in the peloton has helped reduce the gap to our four escapees down to five minutes with around 65km remaining.

There doesn't appear to be any real urgency among the four out front but then the peloton has eased up too. It's turning into a nice Sunday pootle around the Cherbourg peninsula.

The leaders have rolled through the intermediate sprint in Port-Bail. They are not bothered in picking up points - the stage win is on their minds.

But it's a different story in the peloton with the sprinters sizing each other up as they look to pick up points in the battle for the green jersey classification. Andrei Greipel is first over the line, with Marcel Kittel following.

Mark Cavendish trundles over a couple of bike lengths adrift.

Not only cheese, but local ciders too. 

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It's a tough life being a journalist covering one of the world's great sporting events, but organisers compensate for the hardships of the three weeks of Le Tour by laying on spreads like this! 

Thanks to our roving reporter OJ Borg, who is now tucking in to this fine selection of local Normandy cheeses.

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Could the crash have been down to tired minds? Germany's Tony Martin, who also went down, was up a bit late watching Germany beat Italy in a penalty shootout to reach the Euro 2016 semi-finals.

Before the stage he said: "I had planned to go to bed earlier but I couldn't. I had to watch the penalty shootout to the finish. I'm glad Germany won in the end. I was so hyped up that it took me a while to fall asleep."

Before today's stage and Alberto Contador's crash, Sean Yates had said: "Given the characteristics of the finale, it's obviously a stage in which Peter Sagan should do well.

"He's on form as he showed yesterday and there is a fair chance to win the stage and take the yellow jersey because I don't think Cavendish or Kittel will be there. 

"Peter was the world champion in similar conditions. Our priority is to win stages and to go for the GC with Alberto. 

"Alberto is obviously sore but we hope there are still a number of days before the actual race begins. 

"I hope today he'll be alright with this kind of weather because the 3km rule won't apply and I expect the leaders to be in the front. I'm convinced Chris Froome will finish in the top 10 today and you can't afford to lose a couple of seconds here or there. 

"So it will depend on how Alberto feels because injury takes a lot of energy for the body to heal,"

If you're just joining me after a wee ride out this morning, you may have missed the news that Alberto Contador has had another spill.

He went down 60km into today's stage and fell on the right shoulder that he injured yesterday.

Here's what his Tinkoff sporting director Sean Yates said: "It's not ideal but he's fine.

It's not good to fall two days in a row but we hope this was the last time. We're confident that he won't lose too much time in the uphill finish today."  

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 Vegard Breen (Fortuneo-Vital Concept), Paul Voss (Bora-Argon 18), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-Argon 18) and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo) are continuing on their merry way. The weather has cleared up a bit since this photo was taken.

The peloton is clearly saving itself for the bigger challenges to come. Britain's Steve Cummings of the Data Dimension team is doing all the legwork.

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The roads are drying quickly as the sun peeks through the clouds. Rain jackets are being taken off. Just under 100km left today and the lead is staying north of six minutes.

Our colleagues over at Eurosport have been having a chat with Etixx - Quick-Step rider Julian Alaphilippe. He said: "I'm going to try and get up near the front at the end and hopefully we can pick up the stage and maybe the yellow jersey as well. 

"This is exactly the sort of stage I like. It's a lot of fun and I'm going to try and win it."

I'm not sure whether this is to do with the BBC Radio 5 live team in France keeping costs down, or whether there was a scarcity of hotel rooms in Normandy last night. Live commentary from the team from 15:00 BST on the BBC Sport website this afternoon.

There's a bit of claret on the left leg of Marcel Kittel. The German, who is wearing the Green points jersey today because classification leader Mark Cavendish is in yellow, has clearly had a disagreement with the tarmac.

The peloton eased up through Coutances to allow Contador to get back in the peloton.

Mark Cavendish said he would honour the yellow jersey today. Part of that is leading the peloton and making sporting decisions such as waiting for riders who have been caught up in a crash, rather than trying to take advantage.

The leading quartet is six minutes, 30 seconds clear of the the peloton, which is currently riding through the town of Coutances. 

The rain appears to have abated but the roads have that sheen on them that says the riders need to be careful on bends and descents.

Today's route is taking the riders close to where they raced yesterday. They will rejoin the coast just north of Lessay, which is where they left it yesterday.