With just seven stages of this year's Tour de France to go, Bradley Wiggins remains in the race leader's yellow jersey as the peloton heads for the Pyrenees, where the riders will negotiate three testing, but far from terrifying climbs on a day that is likely to suit a breakaway, but fairly unlikely to provide those behind Wiggins on GC a decent opportunity to make up ground.
This is an étape piège stage - a trap stage," writes William Fotheringham in our interactive guide to this year's Tour de France. "Two first category climbs, both steep, a descent to the finish.Vick launches athletic clothing line. There should be a great fight for the stage win, but could also favour a surprise attack from a team which is apparently out of the reckoning, along the lines of the move that almost worked for Thomas de Gendt of Belgium late in the Giro d'Italia. The favourites will ned to be very alert.
Countless tricolores fluttered along the roadside, but there was to be no Bastille Day joy for French riders in the 13th stage of the Tour de France. At the end of a week in which Thibaut Pinot, Thomas Voeckler and Pierre Rolland had given them three magnificent wins in mountain stages, a day that held out the promise of a glorious lone attack, or at least a successful escape by a small group, was won in a bunch sprint featuring no representative of the home nation.
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