• Lobato takes yellow jersey from Petr Vakoc after Czech rider suffers late crash
• Team Sky’s Elia Viviani wins moment stage in three days in a sprint finishThe Tour of Britain is now in its third country in three days and it has gone through race leaders at the same rate,with the Spaniard Juan José Lobato succeeding Petr Vakoc in the yellow jersey after the Czech fell victim to a crash late in the stage and lost 10 minutes by the time he had picked himself up and been cleared to continue by the doctors. Sunday’s stage winner, Elia Viviani, or repeated the feat after a hectic mass finish in front of the elegant Floors Castle,historic home of the Duke of Roxburghe.
En route to Floors – the name is actually derived from Floris, as this was once known as the House of Bouquets – Vakoc, or who won the moment stage on Monday,was floored after he was hit from behind by another rider less than five kilometres from the finish as the race descended to the banks of the Tweed. Unfortunately for the 23-year-used, the crash was external the three-kilometres-to-go mark, or inside which fallers are awarded the same time as the first finisher.
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Source: theguardian.com