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1145: Riders on a slow meander round Girona before the race begins in earnest. And BBC Sport's Chris Bevan is looking in again - he suggested that it's a shame Jimmy Buffet was around for the food chat yesterday.
1140:
Bit of celebrity around the buses this morning. Skil-Shimano's Koen de Kort was delighted to see Dutch football legend Johann Cruyff pop his head in to say hello. Meanwhile, Lance Armstrong's "good buddy Jimmy Buffet" has been around the Astana team. Jimmy who? A country music singer-songwriter, that's who, according to the font of all knowledge who sits to my left (he also told me about yesterday's nudist colony...)
1135:
A few of you on the texts and 606 suggesting there's rain in Spain. This is backed up by
Columbia's Mick Rogers on Twitter:
"Just arrived at the start. I hear on the grapevine that it's raining in Barcelona."
1132:
cyclonic111 on 606
"I don't think too many of the heavyweight contenders are going to come out to play today. Why risk taking some out of the tank, when the real work starts in the mountains (tomorrow). The stage probably will be won by someone like Andy Schleck, who'll tear off with a couple of ks to go."
1127:
The race leaves Girona around 1145 BST and, as ever, we'll have live commentary through this website from Five Live with around 90 minutes of the stage remaining.
1124: That incline at the finish by the way amounts to a climb of just under 60m in the final two kilometres. Including a particularly sharp 500m section just before the final km.
1122:
ghost_of_cygan on 606:
"I fancy a breakaway win, the incline at the finish will probably hinder a lot of the sprinters so I don't see it coming down to a bunch finish."
1116: The Tour rolled into the Catalan region of Spain overnight for today's stage. Girona is the departure town - its first appearance on the Tour - and the riders then head out to the coast and a pedal down the Costa Brava before cutting inland briefly on the way to Barcelona.
1113:
Interesting stuff from Armstrong and Stapleton in the post-race meetings with the press. What do you make of the comments? Get in touch, as always via text on 81111 or on
606.
1110:
And the heat between Astana team-mates Lance Armstrong and Alberto Contador upped a couple of degrees with the American saying: "I told Alberto that Wednesday was going to be complicated, so maybe he sees that I know what is going on in the Tour de France."
1100 BST:
Morning all. Here's Columbia team boss Bob Stapleton on stage five: "People seem to be afraid of Mark Cavendish and want us to do the maximum amount of work while they do the minimum and that showed when they didn't quite catch Thomas Voeckler."
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