Some flat stages then, and the first has a break of 10: Goddaert, Mortensen, Petrie-Armstrong, Taillefour, Mouris, Tschopp, Meier, Tendero, Schar and Santambrogio.

Goddaert is just ahead of the rest at the first sprint.


The two key names in the break are Santambrogio and Tschopp. Tschopp leads the KoM competition, but only by 4 points on the Italian. And Santambrogio wins the first KoM, and Schar is there inbetween him and Tschopp - reducing Tschopp's lead to 2 points


Jack Wolfskin are chasing hard, the gap is under 3 minutes with 40km to go


Santambrogio again wins the 2nd KoM. Tschopp needs 2nd to hold the jersey outright. He fails, Tendero is 2nd. Tschopp in 3rd, and so he now shares the jersey with Santambrogio once again.


You can also see how the peloton are closing in and they fight, but by 10km to go, theyre all caught.

Sprint time then!


Klemme is leading Hagen, but where is everyone else? Well Facci is being led out, with Van Stayen behind him, but then noone
The German does his job, and as Hagen launches, he already leads


Van Stayen is starting to come through. The Nespresso rider is Fiedler. The Philips rider? Dekker!


Hagen wins the stage! Van Stayen is 2nd as Dekker picks up what could be 8 crucial bonus seconds for 3rd. He also takes the Points competition lead outright - it had been shared with Castano.

1	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	4h14'26
2	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
3	Thomas Dekker	Philips - TDC	s.t.
4	Mauro Facci	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
5	Jacob Fiedler	Team Nespresso	s.t.
6	Michael Rogers	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
7	David Zabriskie	Wikipedia	s.t.
8	Markus Fothen	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
9	Björn Schröder	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
10	William Bonnet	Lafarge	s.t.
11	Domenik Klemme	Team B&O	s.t.
12	Carlos Barredo	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
13	Tanel Kangert	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
14	Héctor Fabian Aguilar	Team Nespresso	s.t.
15	Jurgen Van den Broeck	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
16	Carlos Castaño	Festina - Corona	s.t.
17	Morgan Kneisky	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
18	Assan Bazajev	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
19	Maarten Tjallingii	Philips - TDC	s.t.
20	Denis Menchov	Lafarge	s.t.
21	Isaac Speirs	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
22	Markus Eibegger	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
23	Domenico Pozzovivo	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
24	Nick Nuyens	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
25	Kevin Hulsmans	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
26	Martijn Keizer	Team Nespresso	s.t.
27	Andrei Grivko	Team B&O	s.t.
28	Lars Ytting Bak	Philips - TDC	s.t.
29	Jaroslav Popovych	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
30	Gianpaolo Caruso	Lafarge	s.t.
31	Daniel Moreno	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
32	Vladimir Karpets	Team Nespresso	s.t.
33	Lars Boom	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
34	Blake Caldwell	Wikipedia	s.t.
35	Enrico Franzoi	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
36	Florentino Marquez	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
37	Mathieu Bernaudeau	Festina - Corona	s.t.
38	William Ford	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
39	Nico Keinath	Team B&O	s.t.
40	Yoann Offredo	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
41	Marcel Sieberg	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
42	Vladimir Efimkin	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
43	José Angel Gomez Marchante	Café de Colombia	s.t.
44	Emanuele Sella	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
45	Kai Reus	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
46	William Walker	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
47	Maxime Bouet	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
48	Pierre Rolland	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
49	Matthew Lloyd	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
50	Florian Morizot	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
51	Roman Kreuziger	Team B&O	s.t.
52	Patrik Sinkewitz	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
53	Branislav Samoilev	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
54	Jakob Fuglsang	Philips - TDC	s.t.
55	Angel Madrazo	Festina - Corona	s.t.
56	Kenny De Ketele	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
57	Francisco José Terciado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
58	Cameron Meyer	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
59	Magno Nazaret	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
60	Kristjan Koren	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
61	Jurgen Van Goolen	Festina - Corona	s.t.
62	Andrew Tennant	Café de Colombia	s.t.
63	Jurgen Roelandts	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
64	Adrian Laidler	Lafarge	s.t.
65	Egoi Martínez de Esteban	Philips - TDC	s.t.
66	Niels Scheunemann	Philips - TDC	s.t.
67	Tim Dees	Festina - Corona	s.t.
68	Fabio Duarte	Café de Colombia	s.t.
69	Walter Pedraza	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
70	Óscar Pereiro Sio	Café de Colombia	s.t.
71	Remmert Wielinga	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
72	Elia Viviani	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
73	Vincenzo Nibali	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
74	Francisco Colorado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
75	André Steensen	Team B&O	s.t.
76	Michael Faerk Christensen	Team B&O	s.t.
77	Andreas Klöden	Café de Colombia	s.t.
78	Jason Donald	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
79	Sebastian Lang	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
80	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team B&O	s.t.
81	Rigoberto Úran	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
82	Luigi Sestili	Lafarge	s.t.
83	Angel Vicioso	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
84	Greg De Winde	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
85	Kristof Vandewalle	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
86	Trent Lowe	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
87	Paul Healion	Café de Colombia	s.t.
88	Matea Kvasina	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
89	Tyler Farrar	Wikipedia	s.t.
90	Jakub Danacik	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
91	Francisco Mancebo	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
92	Alexis Castro Rodriguez	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
93	Tom Danielson	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
94	Marcel Kittel	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
95	Robert Kiserlovski	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
96	Massimiliano Maisto	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
97	Lucas Schädlich	Festina - Corona	s.t.
98	Rick Flens	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
99	Gustavo Veloso	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
100	Sergio Ghisalberti	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
101	José Joaquin Rojas Gil	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
102	Romain Vanderbiest	Pearl Adidas	s.t.
103	Koen De Kort	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
104	Pedro Nicácio	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
105	Ivano Lo Cicero	Team Nespresso	s.t.
106	Jairo Agudelo	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
107	Baden Cooke	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
108	Jos Van Emden	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
109	Thomas Faiers	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
110	Thomas Bontenackels	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
111	Francisco Matamoros	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
112	Patrick Gretsch	Festina - Corona	s.t.
113	Lluis Mas	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
114	Phillip Thuaux	Lafarge	s.t.
115	Jaime Suaza	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
116	Willem Van Den Eynde	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
117	Pedro Sibila Romero	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
118	Ivan Kovalev	Wikipedia	s.t.
119	Olivier Kaisen	Wikipedia	s.t.
120	Mauro Santambrogio	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
121	Remberto Jaramillo	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
122	Wilmer Vasquez	La Gazzetta dello Sport	s.t.
123	Marcel Barth	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
124	Mikayil Krasnoperov	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
125	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
126	Jose Mendes	Team Nespresso	s.t.
127	Fabien Taillefour	Lafarge	s.t.
128	Michael Schär	Team Nespresso	s.t.
129	Matthieu Sprick	Wikipedia	s.t.
130	Benoît Vaugrenard	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
131	Martin Mortensen	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
132	Christian Meier	Wikipedia	s.t.
133	Héctor Hugo Rangel	Lafarge	s.t.
134	Ben Gastauer	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
135	Tony Martin	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
136	Paul Martens	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
137	Stefan Cohnen	Philips - TDC	s.t.
138	Jesus Tendero	Energie - Diesel	s.t.
139	Muhammet Eyüp Karagobek	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
140	William Germán Rodríguez Parra	Café de Colombia	s.t.
141	Nick Clesen	Vesuvio-Accumalux	s.t.
142	Gregor Gazvoda	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
143	Kristjan Fajt	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
144	Marco Pinotti	Café de Colombia	s.t.
145	Freddy Johansson	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
146	Jens Mouris	Philips - TDC	s.t.
147	Viktor Renäng	Sony Ericsson	s.t.
148	Adam Petrie-Armstrong	Lipton Ice Tea	s.t.
149	Kristof Goddaert	Festina - Corona	s.t.
150	Johann Tschopp	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	s.t.
151	Jackson Rodríguez	Pearl Adidas	+ 3'31
152	Andrew Fenn	Carmeuse Cyclisme	+ 4'11
153	Óscar Solis	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
154	Hugues Mottin	Team Nespresso	s.t.
155	Jean-François Camier	Carmeuse Cyclisme	s.t.
156	Michael Ford	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 6'51
157	Sid Taberlay	Domina Vacanze	s.t.
158	Pim Ligthart	Auber 93 - Look	s.t.
159	Alexander Giraldo	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	s.t.
160	Thurakit Boonratanathanakorn	Team 1	s.t.

GC

1	Markus Fothen	Pearl Adidas	23h03'13
2	Carlos Castaño	Festina - Corona	+ 23
3	Rigoberto Úran	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 36
4	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team B&O	+ 39
5	Thomas Dekker	Philips - TDC	+ 1'00
6	Emanuele Sella	Lipton Ice Tea	+ 1'08
7	Jaroslav Popovych	Carmeuse Cyclisme	+ 1'35
8	Florentino Marquez	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 1'52
9	Walter Pedraza	Sony Ericsson	+ 1'58
10	Domenico Pozzovivo	Energie - Diesel	+ 2'04
11	Patrik Sinkewitz	Auber 93 - Look	+ 2'05
12	Gianpaolo Caruso	Lafarge	+ 2'09
13	José Angel Gomez Marchante	Café de Colombia	+ 2'15
14	Vladimir Karpets	Team Nespresso	+ 2'33
15	Vincenzo Nibali	Domina Vacanze	+ 2'35
16	Michael Rogers	La Gazzetta dello Sport	+ 2'47
17	Jurgen Van den Broeck	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 2'51
18	Vladimir Efimkin	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	+ 3'01
19	Angel Madrazo	Festina - Corona	+ 3'39
20	Pedro Nicácio	Energie - Diesel	+ 4'06
21	Fabio Duarte	Café de Colombia	+ 4'17
22	Daniel Moreno	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 4'30
23	Magno Nazaret	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	s.t.
24	Francisco Colorado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 4'31
25	Tom Danielson	Lipton Ice Tea	+ 4'37
26	Matea Kvasina	Vesuvio-Accumalux	+ 5'43
27	Gustavo Veloso	Energie - Diesel	+ 5'50
28	Francisco Mancebo	Jack Wolfskin	+ 6'00
29	Jairo Agudelo	La Gazzetta dello Sport	+ 7'00
30	Mikayil Krasnoperov	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 7'07

Points

1	Thomas Dekker	Philips - TDC	83
2	Carlos Castaño	Festina - Corona	67
3	Markus Fothen	Pearl Adidas	65
4	Michael Van Stayen	Jack Wolfskin	63
5	Edvald Boasson Hagen	Team B&O	61
6	Mauro Facci	Warner Brothers - Carrefour	50
7	Rigoberto Úran	Vesuvio-Accumalux	49
8	Gianpaolo Caruso	Lafarge	48
9	Jaroslav Popovych	Carmeuse Cyclisme	47
10	Emanuele Sella	Lipton Ice Tea	46

KoM

1	Mauro Santambrogio	La Gazzetta dello Sport	62
2	Johann Tschopp	Team Starbucks-RadioShack	62
3	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team B&O	49
4	Christian Meier	Wikipedia	46
5	Emanuele Sella	Lipton Ice Tea	39
6	Markus Fothen	Pearl Adidas	36
7	Francisco Matamoros	Lipton Ice Tea	35
8	Jaroslav Popovych	Carmeuse Cyclisme	32
9	Nick Nuyens	Domina Vacanze	32
10	Carlos Castaño	Festina - Corona	31

Young

1	Rigoberto Úran	Vesuvio-Accumalux	23h03'49 (1)
2	Aleksandr Pluchkin	Team B&O	+ 3 (2)
3	Florentino Marquez	Sport Lisboa e Benfica	+ 1'16 (3)
4	Angel Madrazo	Festina - Corona	+ 3'03 (4)
5	Fabio Duarte	Café de Colombia	+ 3'41 (5)