Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl now stretching the remaining leading group out.

Oh my. Another pile-up. This race is starting to get stressed.

Colombia's Rigoberto Uran looks to be involved again. A huge number of riders got held up there.

Things are starting to wind up at the front...

Fabio Jakobsen, Wout van Aert, Mads Pedersen, Peter Sagan, Jasper Philipsen and Dylan Groenewegen are all in attendance.

Danny van Poppel is there or thereabouts, could the Bora-Hansgrohe sprinter cause a bit of an upset?

Norway's Alexander Kristoff is having a look as well? Surely this stage won't have been hard enough for him to be right in the mix come the finale.

Jonathan Castroviejo driving the Ineos train towards its final destination today. Geraint Thomas is sat four riders back, currently well out of any bother.

A slight lull here before this race goes full gas again and it is still a very healthy 52km/h.

Moments after that last post Maxime Bouet hits the deck.

The experienced French rider looks okay and gets back on his bike but and will have to put a shift in to rejoin his Arkea-Samsic colleagues.

Thibaut Pinot and Tom Pidcock stick their noses into the wind at the front of the race, which at present is really ordered stuff.

Calm before the storm?

Ineos who usually tend to patrol the left of the road have swapped side with Jumbo-Visma today.

However, there's not really any team actually controlling the front which is a splash of various team jerseys.

I'd imagine Mads Pedersen and Jasper Philipsen both fancy their chances later as well.

But can anyone beat Fabio Jakobsen?

Both Caleb Ewan and Dylan Groenewegen sound like they are keen to put a stop to Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl's hopes of a third consecutive win at the start of the Tour.

BikeExchange-Jayco rider Groenewegen says he wants to do a "better job" today after getting boxed in on the approach to the finish in Nyborg.

Lotto-Soudal's Ewan says his chain came off so "I couldn't really pedal anymore" but that he's keen to get a good run into the line.

Michael Morkov is making his way up towards the front of the peloton.

The 37-year-old Dane was described as being a "level above" any other lead-out man that former German sprinter Marcel Kittel has ever seen earlier on ITV 4.

Kittel, who is actually five years younger than the Quick-Step Alpha Vinyl rider, retired in 2019 with 14 Tour stages on his palmares.

The pace out on the road looks to have gone up a notch as the peloton sweeps past the marina at Aabenraa.

Neilson Powless gets back on to the peloton. The American had dropped back for a couple of minutes to sort out his second flat tyre of the day.

Quick-Step Alhpa Vinyl's Mikkel Honore drops back and appears to be feeling his knee a little. That doesn't bode well for the Belgian team who are looking for a third straight stage win.

A few signs of nerves in the peloton? A cross tailwind looks like it is coming into play as Bora-Hansgrohe and Lotto-Soudal do a stint on the front and the bunch stretches out as the roads narrow.

The peloton swallows Magnus Cort whole as he offers a little wave to the cameraman on the motorbike in front of him. Sterling effort.

Is Magnus Cort about to sit up? He'll surely get the combativity award for his efforts today as the time gap to the peloton starts to tumble.

Best saving his legs to battle for more KOM points when the race reaches France.

Magnus Cort sprints up the final 200m racing against himself before throwing his arms aloft at the top of the final climb of the day.

Brilliant stuff.