
CHERBOURG-EN-COTENTIN, France (AP) -- The Tour de France can rarely be won in the first week. Vincenzo Nibali, the 2014 champion from Italy, and top French hope Thibaut Pinot each finished 11 seconds behind stage winner Peter Sagan as they struggled up the final climb. ''It was like a classics finale, on slippery roads, a bit complicated,'' Pinot said.
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