Hello and welcome to live coverage of stage 4 of the Tour de France - a 207.5km ride from Mondorf-les-Bains in Luxembourg to Vittel in France, via one Cat.4 climb and, probably, a bunch sprint finale.

Between them, the Schlecks took part in 22 Tours and won five stages, with Andy, the younger brother, retrospectively being crowned the 2010 Tour champion. In the absence of the Schlecks, the race’s local Luxembourger is Ben Gastauer (AG2R-La Mondiale), whose birth town is just a handful of kilometres west of Mondorf-les-Bains.

From Luxembourg’s foremost spa town to a town renowned for its bottled water: Stage 4 of the race is certainly themed one part oxygen to two parts hydrogen. There’s good reason – other than its quality spa facilities – for the Tour to visit Mondorf-les-Bains for the first time: although brothers Andy and Frank Schleck would have appreciated the call a few years ago and before they’d retired (in the case of Frank, just last year).

The lone leader from Belgium already has three minutes on the soft-pedalling peloton - but make no mistake, there will be nothing other than a bunch sprint today, with the likes of Marcel Kittel, Andre Greipel, Mark Cavendish, Arnaud Demare, Nacer Bouhanni and Dylan Groenewegen looking to take the win.

Poor Guillaume van Keirsbulck: no one has decided to join the Belgian off the front so the 26-year-old Tour debutant will be riding on his own in what will only ever be a suicide break... Still, it will be good publicity for his wildcard Wanty-Groupe Gobert team.

There's an attack right from the outset from Guillaume van Keirsbulck of Wanty-Groupe Gobert just moments after Tour director Christian Prudhomme waves the flag from his car...

They're off! The remaining 195 riders roll out of the home town of the Schleck brothers, Andy and Frank, to get this stage under way. Here's what they have on the menu...

Australian Matthews (Team Sunweb) beat Ireland's Martin (Quick-Step Floors) for second place before the Belgian Olympic champion Greg van Avermaet (BMC) came home for fourth. Italy's Alberto Bettiol (Cannondale-Drapac) led the chasing pack over the line two seconds in arrears - with Team Sky duo Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas finishing safely in the top ten. Defending champion Froome moved into second place on the general classification - trailing his Welsh team-mate by 12 seconds. Bonus seconds over the line saw Matthews and Sagan rise to third and fourth on GC - 12 and 13 seconds behind Thomas respectively.

Yesterday, World champion Peter Sagan managed to hold off Michael Matthews and Daniel Martin to claim a supreme win on Stage 3 despite unclipping during his final sprint. Slovakian sensation Sagan recovered from inadvertently pulling his foot from the pedals to hold off his rivals at a thrilling conclusion to the lumpy 212.5km stage from Verviers to Longwy.