Updates on the medium mountain stage from Lorient to QuimperGaviria edges sprint battle to win fourth stageAny thoughts? You can email Barry or tweet @bglendenning 2.54pm BST 69km to go: The peloton is breaking up, as is the breakaway group ahead of it, while Sylvain Chavanel’s face is a mask of pain as he negotiates the latest in a series of punchy, steep, uncategorised climbs out in the Bretagne countryside. Chavanel has a lead of 3min 03sec over the bunch. 2.50pm BST 70km to go: It’s turning into bad day for Mark Cavendish, who has just been dropped again on an uncategorised climb. Marcel Kittel, who is also enduring a bad spell of form, is also in trouble. “If he’s struggling in Brittany, I shudder to think how much he’ll struggle when we get to the Alps and the Pyrenees,” says TV’s Ned Boulting. Continue reading…
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