Today’s stage-start hometown boys? The Schleck brothers, Andy and Frank.
Another mass sprint seems likely, this early in the Tour it would be very impressive to manage to stay ahead in a breakaway (though it is likely they won't be caught until after the intermediate sprint at 50 km from the finish). Crosswinds might cause the peleton to break like we've seen in previous years and classification hopes could be dashed for those caught sleeping. The final stretch is not quite flat so this might favor other sprinters than those who did well on stage 2.
Trivia: We are finishing in Vittel, not by coincidence the home town of the eponymous mineral water brand that is one of the race’s sponsors.
Winner: Arnaud Démare
Moulins-lès-Metz owns a strange bridge grounded in a field after the course of the Moselle was shifted in 1614. The arches are now half buried. The town is home to several castles – the ruins of the castle of the bishops of Metz, destroyed by bombing in 1944, the 14th century château Fabert, the St Jean Hermitage castle and the Grignan castle now housing the town hall.
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Cavendish
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Froome
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Peter Sagan
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Froome
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Marcel Kittel
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Playing it safe with Kittel
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Kittel
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I missed last round. I would've been wrong anyway!
I'm debating Froome or Kittel...
I'll go Kittel this round.
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Kittel
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Closed
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Jesus, those crashes!!!
I really hope Sagan won't get into problems for that last crash.
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But he should. You can't throw a forearm like that and go unpunished. That has to be a DQ. But money talks so nothing major will happen to him.
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Yeah, after watching it a few times it doesn't look good...
From one camera angle it looks like he just has his arm wide but from the other angle it really looks like he's bashing.
They sent Cav home a few years ago, lets see what they will do now.
Edit: it wasn't Cavendish that got sent home a few years ago.
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And Sagan is out...
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I may be biased as a Sagan fan, but that was a bit extreme I think...
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