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Tour de France 2016: stage ten – photo gallery

Michael Matthews sprints to first Tour de France stage win as racing resumes in 103rd Tour de France

Michael Matthews followed Tom Dumoulin’s lead in securing his Grand Tour set – a stage victory in Revel adding to victories at the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a Espana in previous years.

Returning after the 2016 Tour de France’s first rest day, Matthews got into the day’s break and then – alongside two team-mates – in the decisive seven-man move which contested the stage.

Michael Matthews won his first Tour de France stage, completing his set of Grand Tour wins (pic: Sirotti)

With Peter Sagan, Greg van Avermaet and Edvald Boasson Hagen also present in that move, it was a day for the rouleurs, given the race’s highest climb of this year’s edition had to be tackled at the start of the stage.

Relive the best of the action through the lens of UCI WorldTour photographer Stefano Sirotti below.

Rui Costa initiated the day's break, bagging the Souvenir Henri Desgrange in the process by cresting the Port d'Envalira first (pic: Sirotti)

The race-winning move was packed with fast-finishing rouleurs like Matthews, Sagan and Boasson Hagen (pic: Sirotti)

Samuel Dumoulin, the smallest rider in this year's race, was also in the move (pic: Sirotti)

Vincenzo Nibali, who has been an attacking presence on similar stages in this race, was again in the break (pic: Sirotti)

Chris Froome comfortably maintained his advantage atop the general classification (pic: Sirotti)

The peloton eased through the final 15km, but Etixx-QuickStep's Dan Martin was quick to take to Twitter to insist it had been full gas up to the point (pic: Sirotti)

Matthews' victory is his sixth in Grand Tours (pic: Sirotti)

Luke Durbridge, originally part of the seven-man break, finds out the result as he crosses the finish line a minute later (pic: Sirotti)

And 'Bling' celebrates his victory - Orica-BikeExchange's first at the Tour since 2013 (pic: Sirotti)

Matthews celebrates his victory on the podium (pic: Sirotti)

And it was a double celebration for the Australian team with Adam Yates staying in the white jersey (pic: Sirotti)

Chris Froome still leads overall though, 18 seconds clear of his fellow Brit (pic: Sirotti)

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