Gallery: Tour de France stage 7 – Kittel by a whisker

Just six millimetres separated Marcel Kittel from Edvard Boasson Hagen in Nuits-Saint-Georges, apparently. Wafer thin.

Edvald Boasson Hagen Marcel Kittel Racing Tour de France 2017

It was 6mm that separated Marcel Kittel from Edvald Boasson Hagen, apparently. Wafer thin…

Julian Vermote and his immaculate hair

Yellow helmets for Sky today. These can go back on the bus

Focus for Froome

White fluffy clouds and fields of wheat on the road to Nuit-Saint-Georges

Dylan van Baarle leads the break

Yohann Gène was Direct Energie’s component in the four-man break

King Kittel

You had to feel sorry for Boasson Hagen, but that’s bike racing, eh?

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