German attacks final breakaway on stage 12Cavendish takes things easy on uneventful dayA weary peloton took things easy after the double ascent of Mont Ventoux on Wednesday, with an opportunistic breakaway led home by Nils Politt, who took the biggest victory of his career in Nîmes.
After a string of top-five finishes in the Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, the 27-year-old from Cologne has never won a stage in one of Europe’s Grand Tours of
Italy,
France or
Spain. “It’s my fifth time in the Tour and it’s the biggest dream I could ever have,” he said.