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Swinging on to the Climb
With this hard right turn, Sep Vanmarcke (LottoNL-Jumbo) and Michal Kwiatkowski (Etixx-Quickstep) start the final (and hardest climb) of the day and of the Pyrennes, Hundreds of cycling fans braved the hard rain and hail to watch these titans of the peloton assault the Plateau du Beille. Kwiatkowski and Vanmarcke have left Georg Preidler (Giant Alpecin) behind hoping to claim the stage in a hard 15 kilometers time.