Check out our 2016 Tour de France gallery from the six stages so far, as selected by ITV Cycling's Dan Deakins
The 2016 Tour de France Grand Depart began in Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy. Credit: PA198 Tour de France starters roll out of Mont Saint-Michel ahead of three weeks of intense riding. Credit: PATwo time Tour de France winner, Tinkoff's Alberto Contador, crashes hard on Stage One. Credit: PAMark Cavendish of Dimension Data takes his stage win tally to 26 and with it his first Yellow Jersey. Credit: PACavendish celebrates his first ever Yellow Jersey at the finish in Utah Beach. Credit: PAThe peloton rides through Saint-Lo, one of the worst bombed French towns in World War Two, to embark on Stage Two. Credit: PAWorld Champion Peter Sagan of Tinkoff wins Stage Two ahead of Etixx - Quick-Step's Julian Alaphilippe. Credit: PAPeter Sagan celebrates winning his first Yellow Jersey in Cherbourg. Credit: PADirect Energie's Thomas Voeckler valiantly tries to hold of the impending peloton in an breakaway effort which saw him awarded most combative rider on Stage Three. Credit: PAMark Cavendish (Green Jersey) beats Andre Griepel (Lotto Soudal) in a photo finish in Angers on Stage Three. Credit: PAMark Cavendish is embraced by his Directeur Sportif as his win is confirmed on the photo finish. Credit: PAEtixx - Quick-Step's Marcel Kittel beats Bryan Coquard of Direct Energie in Limoges on Stage Four in a tighter photo finish than Stage Three. Credit: PAMarcel Kittel celebrates his first stage win of the 2016 Tour in Limoges. Credit: PAThree time Tour de France runner up, Raymond Poulidor, joins Peter Sagan on the podium as he retains the Yellow Jersey. Credit: PAThe peloton sweeps through the Massif Central region of France on Stage Five from Limoges to Le Lioran. Credit: PABMC's Greg Van Avermaet, Lotto Soudal's Thomas De Gent and Astana's Andriy Grivko open a 15 minute breakaway on Stage Five. Credit: PAGreg Van Avermaet's impressive solo effort into at the tail end of Stage Five wins him the Yellow Jersey with a five minute and 11 second gap to second place. Credit: PAMark Cavendish (centre) wins his third stage of the 2016 Tour de France in Montauban to go second in the all time stage winners' table with 29, behind Eddy Merckx who has 34.. Credit: PAMark Cavendish takes back the Green Jersey from Peter Sagan on Stage Six. Credit: PALeicester born Dan McLay, 24, took third on Stage Six in his debut Tour de France with Fortuneo Vital Concept. Credit: PA
