Marcel Kittel wins opening stage of Tour de France

Marcel Kittel wins, Tour de France 2013 stage one

Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) survived a final 10 kilometres of complete chaos to win the opening stage of the Tour de France and claim the first yellow jersey of the race. Kittel was one of the few pure sprinters to survive carnage that no one could have imagined.

All was calm with around 20km to go, but then news came through that the Orica-GreenEdge bus had got itself stuck under the finish line gantry. The pictures then showed it well and truly wedged and the organisation had to do something.

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