GateDrop.com Thibault Benistant took a comfortable race win in the first MX2 race ahead of the impressive two stroke privateer of Adrien Petit Arnaud Aubin finished third ahead of Mathys Boisrame It was Francisco Garcia who took an impressive race win in the second moto on his BUD Kawasaki with Benistant second but that was still enough for the factory Yamaha man to take the overall It was Kevin Horgmo who won the opening MX1 moto on his SR Honda The Norwegian won by ten seconds over Adrien Malaval with Maxime Desprey in third It was another strong moto for Horgmo winning the second moto but this time it was Desprey who finished second Guyon was third on his Tech32 Triumph machine Artists from southeast China's Fujian Province perform a Gaojia Opera play adapted from French comedic writer Moliere's masterpiece L'Avare a traditional genre of drama popular in Quanzhou of Fujian was inscribed among China's first batch of intangible cultural heritage at the state level in 2006 The Chinese Tour in France's Most Beautiful Villages an event designed to boost Franco-Chinese cultural exchanges was launched Tuesday in Pernes-les-Fontaines The event is part of the celebrations marking the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism 18 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Tour in France's Most Beautiful Villages including hand-puppet theater play "Notre-Dame de Paris" dance "Tea Harvesting" and Dacheng theater play "Cymbal Offering," were presented by 20 performers from Fujian Province in southeast China and it felt like being somewhere else," Mireille who particularly enjoyed theater play "Cymbal Offering," said everything was impressive as the performances were so different from what she had seen before in France part of the celebrations marking the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism was co-organized by the China Opera Research Society and the association of France's most beautiful villages The initiative brings a selection of traditional Chinese theater pieces which have been passed down for hundreds of years and remain vibrant in villages across Fujian all renowned for their stunning landscapes and rich cultural heritage Kevin Horgmo set the pace in the MX1 qualifying over Tom Guyon who is racing the 450cc Triumph – there was only a tenth of a second between them Adrien Malaval was third fastest over Maxime Desprey with Adrien Escoffer rounding out the top five Thibault Benistant and the impressive Adrien Petit set the pace pace in both groups the new young face of the French far right meandered from stall to stall "Here's my flyer; I'm not photoshopped," she said to one cheese seller Marion Maréchal-Le Pen, 22, is the newest face in France's far-right Le Pen dynasty, the third generation to run for election as she campaigns for this month's parliamentary race. She is the granddaugher of Jean-Marie Le Pen and the niece of Marine Le Pen who won the party's highest ever presidential election score of 17.9% in April "Fascists!" exclaimed one shopper "You'll have to come up with a new insult," muttered the young candidate to herself For decades the Le Pen family has been a kind of soap opera of the French far right photographed and scrutinised at every turn Jean-Marie often wheeled out his three blond daughters to symbolise the true French nation In the 1980s Le Pen's gruesome public divorce battle saw his ex-wife pose in Playboy for revenge The Le Pen daughters stayed close to the party and married and divorced Front National figures Against this backdrop Maréchal-Le Pen has attracted camera crews as she runs to be potentially the youngest French MP since the French revolutionary Louis-Antoine Saint-Just who once led the Front National youth movement But as well as her opponents' charges that she has been parachuted into a constituency she has few links to she is also facing claims that she is just running to please her relatives The day before her early morning leafletting in this part of rural southern France, Maréchal-Le Pen, who is still at university, was sitting a law exam in Paris. She is running in a corner of Vaucluse where Marine Le Pen took her highest constituency-wide score in the presidential vote: 31.5% Hard right ideas have historically had a hold here an area which was once the fruit basket of France but has seen local agriculture dying arrived to work on farms or build power stations and their descendants are long French born and bred But fears persist on the right about the dangers of mass immigration and becoming France's first Front National MP in decades despite a difficult battle against the favourite from the right wing of Sarkozy's UMP party who has won six successive parliamentary elections It has to happen naturally," Maréchal-Le Pen said she worked on municipal and regional campaigns in the greater Paris area when she once famously burst into tears after political questioning from camera crews The word dynasty "makes me laugh" she said citing a long list of French political families including the Socialist leader Martine Aubry daughter of European commissioner Jacques Delors "I believe in the law of the strongest and the real possibility of my election here means the opposition has become more virulent," she said She insisted her aunt and her grandfather had not coached her Le Pen senior simply said: "Be yourself that's only thing that works in politics." 84 (pictured below) who pressed his granddaughter to run in this symbolic seat The constituency includes southern Carpentras the town where in 1990 the Front National was accused of being indirectly responsible for the desecration of a Jewish cemetery by neo-Nazi skinheads recently convicted of contesting crimes against humanity for saying the Nazi occupation was not "particularly inhumane" denied any role in inspiring the desecration and sees a possible parliamentary win as a vindication who was six months old at the time of the attack said her grandfather's name was wrongly sullied in Carpentras and never "publicly cleansed" that her election would be "a wink at history" At the market some told her: "Your grandad had the right ideas but expressed them wrong." "Different generation even if she said she was proud of her grandfather's integrity Maréchal-Le Pen's campaign topics match those of her aunt: cutting immigration promising protectionism against globalisation and most of all protecting the French "identity" and "way of life" She says immigration should be limited drastically as France "can't assimilate our immigrant population and finance their lifestyle and identity demands as well" she warns that this corner of France "is what France could look like in 10 years" But while her aunt wants a referendum on bringing back the death penalty At the other end of the market Roger Martin a local teacher running for the hard-left Front de Gauche warned of a climate in France where myths about immigrant criminals and so-called benefits spongers were taking hold "Ninety per cent of immigrants in France pay taxes they bring in much more than they cost," he said "Marion is not aggressive like her grandfather But the big difference is that Jean-Marie Le Pen didn't want power Now Marine Le Pen's party wants to get to the heart of power and to me that's a problem." In French parliamentary elections on 10 and 17 June the left needs to win a majority of seats to ensure the Socialist president Polls predict the Socialists will narrowly beat Nicolas Sarkozy's right-wing UMP party hopes to capitalise on her historically high presidential score of 6.4m votes to see her party sit in parliament for the first time since 1986 The last FN MP was elected in 1997 but the result was annulled over funding irregularities which has said that winning even one seat would be a victory One poll has shown Marine Le Pen likely to lose to the leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon in northern Henin-Beaumont The FN's key targets seats are in Vaucluse Gard in the south where the lawyer Gilbert Collard is standing wearing the white jersey for best young rider.(Image credit: Bettini Photo)Peter Sagan Liquigas - Doimo) celebrates his second stage win at Paris-Nice.(Image credit: Bettini Photo)Peter Sagan (Liquigas) powers to the line in Aix-en-Provence.(Image credit: Bettini Photo)Peter Sagan (Liquigas-Doimo) won the 157km fifth stage of Paris-Nice between Pernes-les-Fontaines and Aix-en-Provence The Slovakian neo-pro won his second stage of the race in just five days with an audacious attack with three kilometres to go Mirco Lorenzetto (Lampre) and Alejandro Valverde (Caisse d'Epargne) failed to catch him before the line and rounded out the top three Alberto Contador (Astana) finished two seconds down “It was a terrible stage," Contador said " We tried to control the breaks for 100 kms but it’s impossible for one team to control a race like Paris-Nice Sagan is a very strong rider and I’m sure he will very quickly be a rival to watch in future races Tomorrow is another hard stage with 220 kms I may be the one in the yellow jersey but I’m not the only one who can do something tomorrow.” After the cold conditions of the last few days the fifth stage begun in perfect sunshine and despite yesterday’s efforts into Mende the peloton was in no mood to relax and chased each of the attacks Sylvain Chavanel (Quick Step) was the first rider to break clear and was quickly joined by four other riders However the Astana-led bunch were intent on keeping things together with the second hour of racing rattled off at 45km/h including Tony Martin (HTC-Columbia) who was over six minutes down with over 100 kilometres still to race Volodymir Gustov (Cervélo) and Sylvain Calzati (Team Sky) broke free and the trio soon became a foursome with Rein Taaramae (Cofidis) joining in the action The leaders sped on and their advantage peaked at 1:20 before a combination of Astana Caisse d'Epargne and Euskaltel - Euskadi began to work together happy to have secured the final mountain points With 25 kilometres remaining and the break almost in sight Ag2R moved to the front and set what looked like a furious pace in order to set up Nicolas Roche for a sprint with Levi Leipheimer (RadioShack) one of many casualties along with an unfortunate Thomas Voeckler (BBox Bouygues Telecom) who punctured and was forced to take a teammate’s bike With Cyril Dessel and Dimitri Champion leading Ag2R aggressive pace the stage looked set for a sprint finish but with three kilometres to go the front group of about 50 riders was forced to take a swift left-hand bend before a sharp climb who was first to attack as the peloton slowed He got a small gap but Sagan was the first to respond catching the Frenchman and then launching himself up the road and cresting the top of the climb alone The powerful Slovak had the strength to stay clear on the run in and despite brave attempts from David Millar (Garmin-Transitions) and a final surge to the line from Valverde Sagan hung on for his second win of the race and his blossoming career he joined the Cyclingnews team in 2008 as the site's first UK-based Managing Editor he reported on over a dozen editions of the Tour de France With the help of the excellent editorial team he ran the coverage on Cyclingnews and has interviewed leading figures in the sport including UCI Presidents and Tour de France winners.