The queen stage of the Pyrenees has yielded a victory for Joaquim Rodriguez . The experienced Spaniard showed himself in the stage to Plateau de Beille, the smartest and the strongest of a leading group of 22 men
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Nicolas Roche liedt the peloton on the way to Plateau de Beille Photo:. AP 
Joaquim Rodriguez on his way to his second stage victory Photo:. Reuters 
The profile of the 12th stage of the Tour de France Photo:. Tour de France
A large early breakaway group took the 195 kilometer stage ahead of 13 minutes on the peloton. Among the attackers included Lieuwe Westra, Sep Vanmarcke, Michal Kwiatkowski and thus Rodriguez.
At the top of the penultimate climb, the Port de Lers resulted in the meantime was beaten to pieces breakaway shrunk to ten minutes. The pace of the peloton was determined by Movistar and Sky, but the teams of the favorites took no risks in the descent and saw the gap grow again.
Vanmarcke and Kwiatkowski reason meanwhile way to their flight contemporaries and came as first in the storm at Plateau de Beille justified. The world champion left the Belgian of LottoNL-jumbo on the final climb quickly behind.
Behind Kwiatkowski approached a group with Rodriguez, Romain Bardet and Jakob Fuglsang. The Spanish winner of the third stage on the Wall of Huy, who had ridden all day barely a meter in front, shaking with an acceleration of its competitors themselves and went up and over the Pole.
View Here the results of de12e stage in the Tour de France
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