German sprinter Marcel Kittel has outshone a number of more fancied rivals to win a sprint finish to stage 10 of the Tour de France.
The Argos Shimano rider won his second stage of this year's Tour ahead of fellow German Andre Greipel, of Lotto Belisol, and Slovakian Peter Sagan, from the Cannondale team.
Britain's Chris Froome, of Team Sky, retained the yellow jersey as the overall leader, one minute and 25 seconds ahead of Spain's Alejandro Valverde, of the Movistar team.
Mark Cavendish was fourth in the stage for the Omega Pharma-Quickstep squad, but the Briton was being investigated after the finish for his role in a crash within the last 500 metres of the 197-kilometre stage.
As S-B-S cycling commentator Mike Tomalaris explained to Murray Silby.
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