The clips on the microscope's flat stage hold the slide in place.

In previous years, the Tour started with a prologue, followed by a week of flat stages.

Voigt had already won a flat stage after a long break.

The team had just one sprinter left of three for the flat stage 18.

Stage 3 the next day was one of those more straightforward flat stages.

At the finish of each daily flat stage, the time reduction for the first three is 20, 12 and 8 seconds.

This was done to make the flat stages more competitive.

It was a flat stage with no major climbs.

A short individual time trial and two flat stages were held there.

Directly ahead, there were no tanks, only a flat stage about a meter above the floor.