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Jul 19, 2014 Sports
BBC Sport – Italian Vincenzo Nibali extended his overall lead in the Tour de France by winning stage 13 from Saint Etienne to Chamrousse.
The Astana rider proved strongest during the long final climb to come out on top ahead of Rafal Majka, who took second, and Leopold Konig in third.
Nibali holds a lead of three minutes, 37 seconds in the overall standings.
Alejandro Valverde is now second with Romain Bardet third after Team Sky’s Richie Porte fell well off the pace.
Porte, who took over as his team’s leader following the withdrawal of reigning champion Chris Froome and had been second at the start of the stage, fell back with 12km remaining as the 18km-long climb took its toll. He finished almost nine minutes behind Nibali and is now 16th in the overall standings.
This preceded a gripping end to the stage involving the overall leaders, which saw Movistar’s Valverde initially attack before he was instantly drawn back in by Nibali.
The Italian then launched an attack of his own to reel in Tinkoff-Saxo’s Majka and Netapp-Endura’s Konig before then going out on his own with 3km left and driving on to victory.
General classification after stage 13
1. Vincenzo Nibali (Ita/Astana) 56hrs 44mins 03secs
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) +3mins 37secs
3. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +4mins 24secs
4. Thibaut Pinot (Fra/FDJ) +4mins 40secs
5. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +5mins 19secs
6. Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra/AG2R) +6mins 06secs
7. Bauke Mollema (Ned/Belkin) +6mins 17secs
8. Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel/Lotto-Belisol) +6mins 27secs
9. Rui Costa (Por/Lampre) +8mins 35secs
10. Leopold Koenig (Cze/NetApp Endura) +8mins 36secs
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