Tour de France Stage Thirteen

Stage Thirteen:  «The Shark» Nibali bites again

There's no more doubt about who is the strongest rider in the 2014 Tour de France. After stage 2 in Sheffield and stage 10 at La Planche des belles filles, Vincenzo Nibali increased his lead by winning in the Alps. He arrived solo in Chamrousse to claim his third stage win on a day of suffering for Richie Porte, replaced in second place overall by Alejandro Valverde and on the podium by Romain Bardet.

First attackers Alessandro De Marchi (Cannondale), José Serpa (Lampre), Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar), later rejoined by Jens Voigt (Trek), Luke Durbridge (Orica) and Brice Feillu (Bretagne), weren't lucky enough to get the freedom they were looking for. Another group went away at km 11, comprising Giovanni Visconti (Movistar), Alessandro De Marchi (Cannondale), Blel Kadri (AG2R), Jack Bauer (Garmin), Tom Dumoulin (Giant), Kristjan Durasek (Lampre) and Daniel Oss (BMC), but Bauer got dropped and Dumoulin punctured. Bartosz Huzarski (NetApp) and Brice Feillu (Bretagne) were the first two riders to come across in the ascent to the col de la Croix de Montvieux (summit at km 24). Rudy Molard (Cofidis) and Jan Bakelants (OPQS) also made it in the downhill to form a front group of nine riders.

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