Tour De France 2015: Friday's Stage 7 Live Stream Schedule, TV Info and Route

After a hectic and incident-filled opening six days to the 2015 Tour de France, riders will be hoping for some respite on Stage 7, which is a relatively straightforward 190.5-kilometre run from Livarot to Fougeres.

Chaos reigned at the end of Stage 6 on Thursday after a late crash saw yellow jersey rider Tony Martin break his collarbone, and the Etixx-Quick Step man has been forced to abandon, per Telegraph Sport:

It will be a day for the sprinters again on Friday on the flat, with Andre Greipel the pre-stage favourite but Mark Cavendish will be hoping to finally claim his first win of this year's Tour.

Read on for a full preview of Stage 7, along with live streaming and television details.

Stage 7: Livarot—Fougeres, 190.5 km

Date: Friday, July 10

Profile: Flat

TV Info: NBC Sports (U.S.), ITV4 (UK)

Live Stream: NBC Sports Live Extra (U.S.), ITV Player (UK)

For a look at the Stage 7 route and others throughout the competition, check out the Guardian’s interactive guide.

Standings

Pos	Rider	Time
1	Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step	22:13:14
2	Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky	+12
3	Tejay Van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team 0:00:25	+25
4	Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo	+27
5	Tony Gallopin (Fra) Lotto Soudal	+38
6	Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team 0:00:40	+40
7	Rigoberto Uran (Col) Etixx - Quick-Step 0:00:46	+46
8	Alberto Contador (Spa) Tinkoff-Saxo	+48
9	Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step	+1:04
10	Geraint Thomas (GBr) Team Sky	+1:15

Pos	Rider	Points
1	Andre Greipel (Ger) Lotto Soudal	161
2	Peter Sagan (Svk) Tinkoff-Saxo	158
3	John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Giant-Alpecin	120
4	Mark Cavendish (GBr) Etixx - Quick-Step	94
5	Bryan Coquard (Fra) Team Europcar	86
6	Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Etixx - Quick-Step	63
7	Tony Martin (Ger) Etixx - Quick-Step	60
8	Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) BMC Racing Team	58
9	Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Team Europcar	46
10	Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) MTN - Qhubeka	45

Pos	Rider	Points
1	Daniel Teklehaimanot (Eri) MTN-Qhubeka	3
2	Joaquim Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha	2
3	Michael Schar (Swi) BMC Racing Team	1
4	Rafal Majka (Pol) Tinkoff-Saxo	1
5	Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Lotto Soudal	1
6	Christopher Froome (GBr) Team Sky	1

Preview

Laurent Cipriani/Associated Press

Unlike the previous stages so far in the 2015 Tour de France, there are very few demons in Friday's ride from Livarot to Fougeres.

After the climbing finish of Thursday, Stage 7 is set up for a bunch sprint, perhaps the final time this can be expected until Paris on the closing day.

There is just one stage-four categorised climb to negotiate, which comes in the first 15 km of the stage, after which rolling hills and flat stretches are the order of the day.

The main sprinters' teams will be expected to control the pace as they look to get their men in the best position to pick up maximum points in the fight for the green jersey.

The likes of Lotto-Soudal and Etixx-Quick Step will, of course, be looking for the stage win, but they will also be targeting the intermediate sprint which comes after 65 km.

Thus they will look to prevent an early breakaway and hope to control the pace of things at the front of the peloton.

Livarot makes its debut as a stage start in the Tour and the first week of racing will close with a run from Normandy to Brittany. 

Tinkoff-Saxo's Peter Sagan missed out on a stage win again on Thursday as he was second to Zdenek Stybar, the Slovak's third runner-up finish this year.

However, Stage 7 could suit him, per the Inner Ring:

With sprint finishes set to be few and far between for the remainder of the Tour, Friday could produce a mightily tense finale.

Greipel has been the form sprinter thus far, but Cavendish will be desperate to add to his career haul of stage wins, and it should be another eventful day in the 2015 Tour de France.