De Gendt caughtpublished at 16:33 British Summer Time 17 July 2019
Aime de Gendt sits up and is caught with 4.5km to go. That's the breakaway done for the day.
Jumbo-Visma hit the front of the peloton.
Flat 167km route from Albi to Toulouse
Bunch sprint finish expected
Four-man break: Perez, Rossetto, Calmejane, A de Gendt
Teunissen, Viviani, Sagan, Groenewegen and Van Aert have won sprint finishes so far
Alaphilippe in yellow jersey
Defending champion Thomas second overall
GC rivals Pinot and Fuglsang lost time after late split on stage 10
Jack Skelton
Aime de Gendt sits up and is caught with 4.5km to go. That's the breakaway done for the day.
Jumbo-Visma hit the front of the peloton.
Michael Woods and Wout Poels have dropped off the back of the peloton.
Aime de Gendt's advantage is down to 23 seconds with 5km to go.
Aime de Gendt doesn't have too much hope of holding off a surging peloton here.
But the Belgian has been awarded the combativity prize for the most aggressive rider today.
Probably why Stephane Rossetto, who covets the overall combativity prize, was so annoyed to see De Gendt sprint away from him earlier.
Aime de Gendt is trying to time trial all the way to Toulouse.
The Belgian leads the peloton by 29 seconds.
Lilian Calmejane and Stephane Rossetto are finally caught by the peloton after their day in the break.
Aime de Gendt is now away solo and leads by 39 seconds over the peloton.
As the road narrows, a Lotto Soudal rider has fallen into a ditch after coming together with a CCC rider.
Lotto's sprinter Caleb Ewan is slightly held up by that.
Aime de Gendt's surge has taken the gap out to 37 seconds over the peloton with 10km to go.
Aime de Gendt has launched solo off the front of the four-man breakaway.
Stephane Rossetto is livid, throwing his hands in exasperation at the Belgian streaking away.
Anthony Perez sits up - no chance of victory for him in his home town of Toulouse.
Gareth Rhys Owen
BBC reporter, in France
It's a descent for the majority of the run in and there are some poorly placed barriers at around 3-4km to go.
The peloton remain fanned out across the road and the gap comes down very slightly to 22 seconds.
Bora-Hansgrohe, Deceuninck Quick-Step and Lotto Soudal spread across the front of the peloton.
Team Ineos are keeping Geraint Thomas safe.
Yellow jersey Julian Alaphilippe is up there too.
Jumbo-Visma's Tony Martin peels off after a massive turn on the front in service of Dylan Groenewegen and Wout van Aert.
The hounds (peloton) are indeed about to shoot us (the four-man breakaway) to borrow Anthony Perez's curious pre-stage expression.
Just 24 seconds separate them with 14km to go.
Bora-Hansgrohe are moving up to the front in service of Peter Sagan.
Can Sagan win his 13th individual Tour stage today?
Just over 30 seconds from the peloton to the four-man break.
Ciccone, Langeveld and Nizzolo are almost six minutes down on the peloton now.
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Dylan Groenewegen is indeed one of the favourites for a second stage win of this Tour de France today.
Expect Peter Sagan, Elia Viviani, Wout van Aert, Michael Matthews, Caleb Ewan, Andre Greipel, Michael Matthews and Alexander Kristoff to be in contention in Toulouse too.
Gareth Rhys Owen
BBC reporter, in France
You go with Dylan Groenewegen, he is the fastest pure sprinter.
Simon Brotherton
Commentator on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra
How do Jumbo-Visma play this? Teunissen, Gronewegen and Van Aert have all won sprint stages so far.