Tour de France: Matteo Trentin wins stage seven as Vincenzo Nibali retains lead
Matteo Trentin defeated Peter Sagan in a photo finish
Italy's Matteo Trentin pipped Peter Sagan to victory in a photo finish on stage seven of the Tour de France as Vicnenzo Nibali retained his overall lead of the race.
Trentin benefited from a superb lead-out from Omega Pharma - Quick-Step team-mate Michal Kwiatkowski and was just able to hold off a surging Sagan by less than the width of a tyre.
Nibali managed to stay safe in a frantic finale containing two late climbs and also avoided two crashes to ensure he retains his two-second lead over his Astana team-mate Jakob Fuglsang at the top of the general classification.
Sagan, who continues his run of finishing in the top five on every stage of the race so far, remains third overall, 44 seconds adrift.
More to follow Stage seven result
1 Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step, 05:18:392 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale, same time3 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Belisol, st4 Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Giant-Shimano, st5 Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge, st6 Daniel Oss (Ita) BMC, st7 Cyril Gautier (Fra) Europcar, st8 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) IAM Cycling, st9 Sep Vanmarcke (Ned) Belkin, st10 Greg van Avermaet (Bel) BMC, st
General classification
1 Vincenzo Niabli (Ita) Astana, 29:57:042 Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana, +2secs3 Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale, +444 Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma - Quick-Step, +505 Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto-Belisol, +1:456 Richie Porte (Aus) Team Sky, +1:547 Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin-Sharp, +1:568 Alejandro Valverde (Spa) Movistar, +2:119 Romain Bardet (Fra) Ag2r-La Mondiale, same time10 Rui Costa (Por) Lampre-Merida, st
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