Tour de France 2018: stage three – live!

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4.11pm BST

Disaster for Quick-Step Floors: The Quick-Step Floors team smithereens out on the road, with three riders up front, Fernando Gaviria getting dropped and the rest strung out in between. The trio in front slow down to allow their team-mates to catch up and six of them pedal on together. They’re the only team to mess up like that today and aren’t even halfway yet.

4.09pm BST

@bglendenning With Quick-Step Floors tearing through the spring season, why aren’t they regarded as the favorites on a stage like this? It seems like they could coalesce their individual successes into a formidable time trial team.

Interestingly enough, on ITV’s coverage of the Tour, David Millar has just been bigging up their chances of winning today’s time trial. They’ve just passed the first checkpoint three seconds slower than BMC, so are very much in the mix. If they do win today’s stage, Fernando Gaviria would find himself in yellow.

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