Tour de France 2012, stage four: live I want to help Mark win the gold medal. 11.35 Well, well, well (as The Woodentops once sang) who would have guessed it, two Frenchman are involved in an early breakaway from the off. David Moncoutié (Cofidis, Le Crédit en Ligne) and Anthony Delaplace (Saur-Sojasun) are joined by Yukiya Arashiro (Europcar) who, I believe, is only one of two Japanese riders to have ever completed the Tour - the other being Fumiyuki Beppu. 11.30 Morning all and welcome to our live rolling blog from stage four of the Tour de France. Well, how good was stage three? Very is the answer. Some great riding from Michael Morkov (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) who, once again, was part of the breakaway from early on then, of course, the late attack from Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step). What can I say about Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale)? An outstanding talent who has took the green jersey by right on Monday evening and appears to want to keep it all the way to Paris. The day, though, wasn't so good for Kanstantsin Siutsou (Team Sky, broken leg), José Joaquín Rojas (Movistar, broken collabone) and Maarten Tjallingii (Rabobank, broken hip) who were all forced to abandon. My initial thoughts when Siutsou went down was: how will this affect Bradley Wiggins when we reach the mountains? Luckily someone asked Sean Yates, directeur sportif with Team Sky, that very question: "He [Siutsou] is a big loss. We have to deal with it. It will just impact on the workload of the other seven members of the team. Yates added that Mark Cavendish, their world champion, may even be called on to perform domestique duties. I'm sure he won't be allergic to that. We have to share the workload. Few, meanwhile, will have much sympathy for Movistar after Iván Gutiérrez persisted to attack on the front following a crash on Tuesday. Tut, tut! Here's a full list of the remaining riders for this year's Tour Anyway, today's stage will more than likely fininsh in a sprint finish in Rouen and I'm expecting to see Tyler Farrar (Garmin-Sharp) contesting that alongside the likes of Mark Cavendish (Team Sky), Matt Goss (Orica-GreenEdge) and André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol). Farrar, for those who are interested, became the first American rider to win a stage on Independence Day 12 months ago and would love to repeat to feat in around five hours time. Jonathan Vaughters, his team manager, wouldn't mind seeing his sprinter bag a stage either following a disappointing opening four days. The parcours, or route, feature four category four climbs and the intermediate sprint at 140km of the 214.5km route. Not sure what the wind is like out on the course but riders will be wary of any crosswinds forming before they head inland following the intermediate sprint. Anyway, enough of me, here's what someone slightly more qualified has to say ... Jersey watch: Fabian Cancellara (RadioShack-Nissan) starts in the maillot jaune (leader's yellow jersey) Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Cannondale) the maillot vert (green jersey for leading the points classification), Michael Morkov (Saxo Bank-Tinkoff Bank) the maillot à pois (polka dot jersey for leading the mountains classification and Tejay Van Garderen (BMC Racing) will wear the maillot blanc (white jersey, young rider classification). Team Sky riders will all wear yellow helmets as the leaders in the teams classification and Morkov will also be riding with a red race number after he was named 'most combative rider' in Tuesday's stage three. More jersey-type stuff here with our guide to the team colours worn ...