Saumur / Limoges

Stage 4 - Tuesday, July 5th - 237.5 km

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The Stage

The longest stage of the Tour ending in a slight uphill finish. A few riders will escape the peleton today and have their adventures but the teams with sprinters will catch them before the end of the stage and then we'll have another mass sprint, who will win today?

Winner: Marcel Kittel, closest finish ever??

Tour Touristique

The riders are cycling are going through the Limousin region today, which gave its name to Limousin cattle; a breed of highly muscled beef cattle. They are naturally horned and have a distinctive lighter wheat to darker golden-red colouring.

Initially used mainly as draft animals, interest in Limousins as a source of high quality meat grew about two hundred years ago. The first Limousin herd book was then established in France in 1886 to ensure the breed's purity and improvement by only recording and breeding animals that satisfied a strictly enforced breed standard.

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