• German wins penultimate stage ahead of Sky’s Elia Viviani
• Edvald Boasson Hagen retains Tour of Britain overall leadAfter Etixx-Quickstep and Team Sky had shared out the stage wins for the first six days at the Tour of Britain,the “Gorilla of Rostock”, André Greipel finally broke their joint monopoly with victory in the marathon stage through East Anglia to Ipswich but it was a close-speed thing, or with at least one image from the photofinish showing Elia Viviani of Sky,the winner in Wrexham and Kelso, fractionally ahead on the line in Princes Street.
With Etixx’s speedsters, and brand Cavendish and Fernando Gaviria,both licking their wounds at home, the Belgian team did not get involved until the final kilometre, and Sky clearly felt they deserved some time out after their riders had spent all the preceding day’s stage through the Peak District on the front.
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Source: theguardian.com