Steve Cummings of Dimension Data, took the victory on stage seventh of the Tour De France at the mountain resort of Lac De Payolle.
Stage seven was a 162.5km stage from L'Isle-Jourdain to Lac De Payolle and was a stage which saw the race go into the the Pyrenees and the riders taking on the Col d'Aspin.
Not long after the flag dropped and there was a break which included Peter Sagan and the winner of three stages in this year's race Mark Cavendish. They were joined by Costa (Lampre-Merida), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Luis Leon Sanchez (Astana), Jarlinson Pantano (IAM Cycling), Ramunas Navardauskas (Cannondale-Drapac), Jérémy Roy (FDJ), Cesare Benedetti (Bora-Argon 18), Nicolas Edet, Geoffrey Soupe (Cofidis) and Chris Anker Sorensen (Fortuneo-Vital Concept).
They had a lead of thirty seconds before Cavendish and Sagan dropped back to the peloton who caught the rest out front at the forty three kilometre mark.
After fifty kilometres, Vassil Kiryienka (Sky), Gorka Izagirre (Movistar), Vincenzo Nibali and Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Jan Bakelants and Alexis Vuillermoz (AG2R-La Mondiale), Paul Martens (LottoNL-Jumbo), Fabian Cancellara and Jasper Stuyven (Trek-Segafredo), Oliver Naesen (IAMCycling), Matti Breschel, Alex Howes and Sebastian Langeveld (Cannondale-Drapac), Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Stephen Cummings (Dimension Data), Simon Geschke (Giant-Alpecin), Paul Voss (Bora-Argon 18), Kristijan Durasek (Lampre-Merida), Angel Vicioso (Katusha), Jurgen Roelandts (Lotto-Soudal), Sylvain Chavanel and Antoine Duchesne (Direct Energie), Tony Martin (Etixx-Quick Step), Dani Navarro, Borut Bozic and Luis Angel Maté (Cofidis), Daryl Impey (Orica-BikeExchange) and Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fortuneo-Vital Concept) were leading and with the peloton not responding, they were able to get 2.30 ahead.
Vincenzo Nibali nipped away and took the point in the Côte de Cavern, climb before Antoine Duchesne (Direct Energie), Daniel Navarro (Cofidis), Steve Cummings (Dimension Data) and Matti Breschel (Cannondale) led the race with 28kms left, 24 seconds clear of the yellow jersey group, which is made up of Greg Van Avermaet (BMC), Daryl Impey (Orica-BikeExchange), Paul Martens (Team LottoNl-Jumbo), Alexey Lutsenko (Astana), Alex Howes (Cannondale-Drapac), Pierre-Luc Périchon (Fortuneo-Vital Concept), Simon Geschke (Giant-Alpecin) and Vincenzo Nibali (Astana). The rest of the break was 35 seconds back, while the peloton was five minutes down.
Steve Cummings got past Navarro and impey and rode away on the Col d'Aspin. and kept going to take the win in 3.51.58. Navarro was second 1.06 down with Impey.
The flam rouge sign fell down on some of the group of favourites not the race leader Greg Van Avermaet who finished three minutes down but held the likes of Adam Yates.
''I am ectastic.'' Cummings said to Matt Rendall. ''It''s great to be with mark today was a brilliant and I really enjioyewd the stage even though it was a bit hot. There is a really good atmosphere in the team anyone in our team is capable of
''i am really happy for Stevo,''said Greg Van Avermaet who exteneds his lead in the race. ''It was Steve's day and no-one was going to catch.''