Dylan Groenewegen won stage seven of the Tour de France in Chartres. The Dutchman beat Fernando Gaviria and world champion Peter Sagan in an uphill sprint at the end of the 231km stage from Fougères. It was a first stage win of this Tour for the LottoNL-Jumbo rider and the second of his career after victory on the final stage in Paris last year. Mark Cavendish looked in good position in the final few hundred metres but appeared to sit up after almost tangling with Sagan, crossing the line in 10th place. What do the full standings at the 105th edition of the Tour look like after seven days of racing?<doc-sep>IRELAND’S Dan Martin has won the sixth stage of the Tour de France with Australia’s Richie Porte closing on the top 10 after a day where several top names lost time on the leaders. The Team UAE Emirates rider jumped away from the main pack inside the final kilometre and never looked back, beating France’s Pierre Latour by one second and Spain’s Alejandro Valverde by three. BMC rider Porte crossed the line three seconds off the pace after the 181km ride from Brest to Mur de Bretagne, with defending champion Chris Froome five seconds further back. Porte sits in 11th spot on the general classification 53 seconds behind his teammate, Belgian Greg van Avermaet, who is clinging on to the yellow jersey, three seconds ahead of Team Sky’s Thomas. Last year’s runner-up Rigoberto Uran was 11 seconds behind Martin but it was worse for French hope Romain Bardet, who ended up 31 seconds off the pace after having to swap bikes with a teammate following a mechanical problem just before the last climb. Dutchman Tom Dumoulin, the 2017 Giro d’Italia champion, suffered a puncture with five kilometres to go and ended the day 53 seconds behind the winner. He was then handed a 20-second penalty by the race jury for staying too long in his team car’s slipstream. Martin came home second the last time a Tour stage ended in Mur de Bretagne and he admitted he had been obsessed about winning here this time on a punchy climb that suited his abilities. “I thought about it (his second place in 2015) all day. It was good to finish second back then but this time I was coming for victory,” Martin said. “It was difficult because there was a headwind, so going solo was risky.” Friday will see the riders take on the longest stage of the race at 218km when they take off from Fougeres and finish in Chartres. The last time this route was used was in 2004 and won by Australia’s Stuart O’Grady from a breakaway.<doc-sep>Dylan Groenewegen doubled up at the Tour de France as he won stage eight in Amiens. The Dutchman made it two wins in as many days following stage seven success in Chartres as he held off Andre Greipel and Fernando Gaviria at the end of this 181-kilometre stage from Dreux. Most of the general classification contenders crossed the line in the main bunch to hold station but UAE Team Emirates' Dan Martin stood to lose over a minute after being caught in a crash inside the last 20km. But what do the full standings at the 105th edition of the Tour look like after eight days of racing?<doc-sep>
Two sprinters were relegated for head-butts and a third was accused of “bashing everyone else out of the way” as the Tour de France’s Bastille Day stage descended into fractious, ill-tempered affair. Dylan Groenevegen [LottoNL-Jumbo], the young Dutch rider who won on the Champs Elysées last year, kept his head to win for a second day on the trot. Groenevegen appears to have the greatest raw speed of any of the sprinters this year and he harnessed it to good effect again here, picking the perfect moment to launch his final acceleration and powering up the right hand side of the road in Amiens. But elsewhere things got very scrappy. André Greipel (Lotto Soudal) and Fernando Gaviria (Quick-Step Floors), who finished second and third respectively, were both relegated, apparently for separate head-butting incidents, moving Peter Sagan [Bora-Hansgrohe] and John Degenkolb [Trek-Segafredo] up two places. Mark Cavendish [Dimension Data], meanwhile, lost his team mates around the final corner with 600m remaining, but managed to get on to Sagan’s wheel, only to suffer a mechanical. He rolled home 10th, but was later promoted to eighth. “At least it stops me having to think of excuses,” the Manx rider said of his bike issue. “I was in the perfect position. I was pretty happy. Coming around that corner, we knew it was pretty sketchy. I lost my leadout men but I was alright. I followed Sagan. But following him is pretty sketchy - he bashes everyone else out the way so you do get a clear run following him.”