Race Report: Alexis Vuillermoz of Ag2r climbs into French cycling’s elite as he dominates on the Mur-de-Bretagne to take the first win of the race for his team and for France.France finally has a winner in the 2015 Tour de France as Alexis Vuillermoz (Ag2r) flies away from the peloton on the Mur-de-Bretagne. Behind him Dan Martin rode into 2nd to take another high placing on a hilltop finish in the race but he wasn’t able to take advantage of the pacemaking his team had done on the stage. It was a stalemate in the GC with the exception of Vincenzo Nibali who, surprisingly, lost 10 seconds to his main rivals on the final climb.– Words by Sam Larner – RouteWe’re in Brittany, which means obsessive fans and relentless uncategorised climbs. Despite the continuos elevation changes throughout the race we only have two categorised climbs, the category 4 Col du Mont-Bel-Air in the Cotes-d’Armour region where 5 time winner and Tour legend Bernard Hinault was born and raised. The second and final categorised climb is the 3rd category Mur-de-Bretagne (2km @ 6.9%) where the stage will finish. We’ve been here once before, in 2011, when Cadel Evans beat Alberto Contador to the stage win, incidentally that means that 100% of the time the winner on this climb has won the Tour overall. It will be interesting to see if that stat holds up after today.What’s left of the break breathes its last breaths on the Mur-de-Bretagne.Looking for a BreakAs has...
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