Germany's André Greipel of Team Lotto-Belisol powers to stage victory ahead of Omega Pharma-QuickStep's Mark Renshaw; Simon Gerrans wins Santos Tour Down Under 2014.

Though having to wait longer than he had hoped, André Greipel today succeeded at adding a 15th stage win to his Santos Tour Down Under victory count when he won stage 4 of this year's race in Victor Harbor; General Classification and former World Champion Cadel Evans of Team BMC Racing was put under pressure but managed to remain in light.

German André Greipel powers to stage 4 victory at Santos Tour Down Under 2014; Cadel Evans' overall race lead minimized to seven seconds.

For the second consecutive day, a Belgian squad has won a stage of the Tour de France 2013. Yesterday, Mark Cavendish did the honors for Omega Pharma-Quick Step, and today, Andre Greipel won the day for Lotto-Belisol. Greipel took a bunch sprint to win Stage 6, a flat, 176.5-km run from Aix-en-Provence to Montpellier, in 3:59:02. Peter Sagan (Cannondale) outsprinted Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) for second.

German national champion André Greipel sprints to stage 6 victory in Tour de France 2013; GreenEdge's Daryl Impey takes overall Tour de France lead from teammate Simon Gerrans.

Earlier this afternoon Team Argos-Shimano's German sprinter Marcel Kittel powered to victory in a fiercely contested sprint to the finish line on Strasse des 17. Juni near Brandenburger Tor in Berlin, Germany.

Today's 90 kilometer final stage of the 2013 Santos Tour Down Under was decided in another bunch sprint in the streets of Adelaide where Team Lotto-Bellisol's André Greipel nailed his 100th professional victory after a tight sprint with Mark Renshaw of Team Blanco.