Andre Greipel

Tour de France: Greipel sprints to stage win, Impey takes yellow

Greipel, of the Lotto-Belisol team, beat Slovakian Peter Sagan and fellow German Marcel Kittel at the end of a 176.5-km ride from Aix-en-Provence.

Greipel wins second Tour stage in a row

British world champion Cavendish, who rode the day's 196.5 kms with cuts and bruises all over, was unable to move up a gear in the final stretch and had to be content with fifth place.

Tour de France: Cavendish crashes as Greipel wins 4th stage

Cavendish fell off his bike in a big pile-up with less than three km left and crossed the line long after Greipel had outsprinted Italian Alessandro Petacchi.