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Apologies for the lack of updates about the actual cycling - but there's not much going on.

Martin Elmiger, Alex Howes, Cesare Benedetti and Jeremy Roy comprise the breakaway, which has held a lead of more than four minutes over the peloton for a while now.

The quartet are about to start climbing the category four ascent to Cote du Four-a-Chaux.

It's slow going into the headwind.

If anyone has the time to Photoshop an RKO outta nowhere on Chris Froome, I'd be much obliged...

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Here's a look at today's 208km stage, which runs north, through Lyon, in the south east of France.

It's bumpy, but not climby. So the yellow jersey contenders can try and recover from two intense days, while the sprinters ratchet it up for a grab at glory.

There may only be two more chances for the sprinters - in Berne on stage 16 and Paris on the final day - so make it count boys.

The wind is whistling through the Rhone Valley today.

Today's stage will be a mere nuisance to the majority of the peloton - nothing to be gained, only everything to lose.

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Elmiger, Howes, Roy and Benedetti are the men in the breakaway on today's stage - their gap to the peloton has very much steadied at 4mins 30secs.

All the jersey wearers are safely tucked into that peloton.

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It's a straightforward discussion point today.

How can Chris Froome be stopped?

I feel only a few tricks from Dick Dastardly could scupper the Briton's title chase.

Any thoughts on ways Va Va Froome can be swayed from his path?

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Rob Hatch
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

Chris Froome had a great day on stage 13. He hasn't won a time trial since 2014, but he was excellent and rode consitently positive splits - always ahead of his main rivals.

We've heard rumours that his big rival in the general classification Nairo Quintana may be ill, and Froome's lead is now so good that - even if he'd lost time over the nonsense of stage 12 when he was left running up the mountain - Froome would still be up by around a minute.

It was vintage Chris Froome yesterday.

The Team Sky mean came second in the time trial and took a hatchet to the gap on his yellow jersey rivals, opening up a 1min 47secs lead at he top of the pile.

Bauke Mollema is the new rider in the number two slot, with Adam Yates dropping to third.

Nairo Quintana looks all out of sorts - he's now fourth and three minutes off the pace.

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Rob Hatch
BBC Radio 5 live commentator

It wouldn't surprise me if some of the riders were affected by what happened in Nice. We think about athletes as machines sometimes - even when we're just referring to performance. 

Many may have had friends and family out on the promenade in Nice. 

There could well have been something eating away at the mind of some of the riders during the time trial.

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The riders are on a long, flat stretch as they come through Chabeuil.

Elmiger, Roy, Howes and Benedetti are still up the road, but the gap to the peloton has steadied at 4mins 45secs.

Rob Hayles
Former GB cyclist on BBC Radio 5 live

The Tour did itself justice on Friday in remembrance of what happened in Nice. I felt that it was right to carry on and everyone went about it in the right way.

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BBC Radio 5 Live

The excellent BBC Radio 5 live team have done their usual sterling job of breaking down events at the Tour de France in the BeSpoke podcast.

Now is a good time to listen to their chat about the Tour's tributes to the Nice victims, Tom Dumoulin's time trial win and Chris Froome's strengthening title chances.

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Roy, Howes, Benedetti and Elmiger have opened up a 4mins 5secs lead on the peloton. None of that quartet are yellow jersey threats, so Chris Froome and Team Sky will not be concerned.

Martin Elmiger is the closest to Froome in the GC standings - he's an hour and a half behind the defending champ.

We've had the first of three category climbs - all rated four.

It was Thomas de Gendt, stage 12 winner, who was first to the summit of Cote du Puy-Saint-Martin and he picks up a point towards his king of the mountains tally.

The Belgian wears the polka dot jersey with 90 points, 13 ahead of Rafal Majka.

It's warm in south-east France, but windy too. Riders are facing 40km/h headwinds.

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We'll take a detailed look at today's stage shortly, but here's what's happened so far.

The race proper started at 10:59 BST and since then there's been a four-man breakaway, consisting of Martin Elmiger, Alex Howes, Jeremy Roy and Cesare Benedetti. They're 3mins 40secs ahead of the peloton.

Thanks for joining us today.

If you're a returning reader, you know where everything is.

If you're new, let me give you the tour.

I'll keep you across what's happening on stage 14, we'll look at some bits of news, recap yesterday, get some analysis and have a bit of a natter.

And at 15:00 BST, you'll be able to listen to the BBC Radio 5 live commentary team.

Any questions, don't be scared to shout up - use #bbccycling on Twitter. We're all friends here.