Six men in the lead since the start of this stage: Matej Mohoric, Franck Bonnamour, Julien Bernard, Jonas Rutsch, Simon Clarke and Georg Zimmermann. They are almost a minute and thirty seconds ahead of a group of 18 riders including Alejandro Valverde, Ion Izaguirre, Omar Fraile, Anthony Turgis, Greg Van Avermaet, Christophe Laporte, Davide Ballerini and Niels Politt. They are only around 30 seconds ahead of the peloton.
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