When Mont Ventoux appears on a route map you don't really pay much attention to the two category two lumps in the second half of the course.
While the likes of Marcel Kittel and Nacer Bouhanni were distanced on Ventoux, it was the Côte de la Roque d'Anthéron at kilometre 162 that caused the most problems in the peloton.
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