Stefan Bissegger, who had a shocker in the time trial yesterday after tumbling a couple of times drops back to lend Rigoberto Uran a hand.

That should do it.

Alberto Bettiol and Owain Doull are doing the hard yards to bring Rigoberto Uran back into contact.

The gap is about 40 seconds from one minute and 20 seconds plus.

A few shots of Geraint Thomas (minus gilet) having a natter and looking pretty relaxed in the peloton.

Further back down the road Rigoberto Uran and Guilio Ciccone are among a group of a dozen riders chasing to get back on.

Sven Erik Bystrom has been awarded the combativity prize today, unsurprisingly.

Anyone down the left of the bunch is being absolutely battered by the wind.

But given the riders are in a strong cross headwind making any sort of attack will likely be neutralised by the elements.

Very much not in the race organisers' script.

Michael Morkov leaves Yves Lampaert, who then catches him up and will try to escort the Dane back to the main bunch.

The Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl lead-out man is one of the best in the business but now has some serious ground to make up to assist Fabio Jakobsen in the sprint.

Ouch!published at 19km to go

19km to go

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Oh my, the yellow jersey Yves Lampaert is down and his teammate Michael Morkov looks to be in trouble as well.

TotalEnergies rider Anthony Turgis also hits the deck.

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Apparently it took 50 years of debate in the Danish parliament before a decision was made to build The Great Belt Bridge in 1986 between the islands of Zealand and Funen.

It then took a further 12 years before it was open to traffic.

Cyclists are normally not permitted to use the bridge. Guess they can make an exception here mind.

The peloton is coming under a lot of stress here and stringing out right across the road.

Meanwhile, Rigoberto Uran and one of the DSM riders, the American Kevin Vermaerke (I think) are off their bikes at the back of the main bunch which is really shifting.

All the big names are jostling for position up at the front of the race.

Jumbo-Visma, Ineos and Groupama-FDJ are very prominent. As are Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl with the yellow jersey Yves Lampaert tucked in behind Kasper Asgreen.

Filippo Ganna now fronting up for Ineos. Geraint Thomas is lurking just in behind keeping a watchful eye on the situation as the wind starts to whip up.

Sven Erik Bystrom's time at the front of the race was good while it lasted. The Intermarche-Wanty-Gobert Materiaux rider is swallowed up by the group after 170km up front.

Chris Froome also looks to have latched on to the back of the peloton after a mechanical.

Tom Pidcock doing some major turns for Ineos up at the front of the main bunch who are closing in on Sven Erik Bystrom.

The Norwegian's time at the front of the race looks to be over.

Oh what's happened here? Chris Froome stops on the left side of the road and now looks to be back under way having lost around a minute.

Ouch!published at 38km to go

38km to go

Martijn Tusveld (DSM) and Krists Neilands (Israel-Premier Tech) hit the deck. Not sure what happened there at the back of the peloton but everyone looks okay to carry on.

You can never run out of postcard ideas at the Tour de France...

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Nils Politt pulls over again but this time in support of his Bora-Hansgrohe teammate Aleksandr Vlasov.

The German comes to a stop and then sees his Russian team leader nip past him on new bike on the downhill meaning he'll have to catch and pass him to lead him back to the main bunch. Schoolboy error.

Norway's Sven Erik Bystrom is still ploughing a lone furrow but the peloton have cut the distance significantly. His lead stands at 27 seconds.

One of the fastest men on two wheels looks like he is ready for business today.

Prior to the stage his BikeExchange -Jayco teammate Michael Matthews said this of Dylan Groenewegen:

“He's the fastest guy here. So I think we've got a great team to support him. And I'll do my best to do my thing to position the final guys, to position Dylan into the finish.

"I think I have some good horsepower, I showed yesterday in the time trial [17th], so hopefully I can do a good lead-out for them."