Could this be the decisive stage? 2 ascents up Willunga Hill


J.Martins, Fahnert, CIoban, Creed, Brandt and Traksel are the break

Chasing them are Van Ooijen, Tolleson and Belda.

In the sole intermediate sprint of the day, it is no surprise that Traksel is the strongest and takes 6 pts


Behind them, the chasing trio are determined to catch up and pushing hard


After quite some time, they do eventually make the junction


With 78km to go, the gap is 4 minutes and theres an attack from the peleton. Landaluze launches it, Rovira and Bewley follow and the Kiwi is the strongest - not waiting for the other 2


We now approach and begin the first ascent of Willunga Hill as Fahnert moves forward to put some pressure on the rest of the break


As we approach the top there is a move from Van Ooijen which Fahnert matches. Both start the day on 5 KoM pts, the winner of this climb takes the provisional KoM lead - and Fahnert takes it


Landaluze and Rovira caught up with Bewley on the climb. Now descending Willunga, just under a minute behind the break but only just over a minute ahead of the peleton


On the flat inbetween the Willunga climbs, some more attacks, led by Van den Broeck


Pasamontes, Klimiankov, Corioni, and Rooijackers follow


Onto the climb now as Sulzberger, Van Heerden and Devenyns go


More attacks now, including Rast, Carrara and Wegmann


The break has split up front with Fahnert, Traksel, Brandt, Cioban and Creed in the lead


But Creed then goes solo


Devenyns, Wegmann and Rooijackers chase but with so many attacks, most have inevitably come to nothing and been swallowed by the pack.


Wegmann's group catches the group behind Creed, he moves towards the front alongside teammate Brandt


More attacks now! Van Garderen and Kirchen!


Creed takes the points at the top of the climb as Fahnert attacks through for 2nd to confirm the KoM jersey


Here goes Kirchen though, continuing to attack, right past Creed


Koren, Creed, Wegmann, Van Garderen, Brandt and Fahnert chase Kirchen


The Luxembourg rider isnt going to wait, and presses on as we ride the flat section on top of Willunga


More attacks from the peleton now, Van den Broeck followed by Herve, Goss and Sulzberger


The chasing group is swallowed up as Van den Broeck descends in chase of Kirchen


10km to go as Kirchen leads, Van den Broeck chases, and then comes the peleton


And Van den Broeck now catches Kirchen


6km to go and some riders are not ready to let the duo decide the stage and race. Rooijackers, Sulzberger once again and the race leader Juan van Heerden!


Wes Sulzberger has caught the leading pair!


And if that was noit enough, he powers into the lead


Van den Broeck and Kirchen will be wondering just how that happened, their hopes for a win have all-but gone just like that


Under the flamme rouge, the crowd roar as Sulzberger poweres down the finishing straight


Victory for the Australian! But will he get Yellow?


Van den Broeck edges out Kirchen for 2nd. Rooijackers is 4th while Gasparotto leads in the break.


The 20 second time bonus leaves Sulzberger 6 seconds short of Van Heerden, he needs to be awarded a gap. And as Van den Broeck crossed the line it looked like he must just have done enough - and he had! Theres an Aussie leading the Tour Down Under with 1 stage to go.

1	Wes Sulzberger	IrnBru - RBS	3h34'34
2	Jurgen Vandenbroeck	Molteni	+ 20
3	Kim Kirchen	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
4	Piet Rooijakkers	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
5	Enrico Gasparotto	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
6	Matteo Carrara	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
7	Juan Van Heerden	AON Global	s.t.
8	Jérome Giaux	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
9	Sébastien Minard	Team Starbucks	s.t.
10	Valentino China	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
11	Trent Lowe	Team Starbucks	s.t.
12	Claudio Corioni	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
13	Tejay Van Garderen	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
14	Maurizio Biondo	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
15	Sam Bewley	M&M Cycling	s.t.
16	Giovanni Visconti	Team Starbucks	s.t.
17	Cédric Hervé	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
18	Fabio Ciccarese	Team Starbucks	s.t.
19	Dries Devenyns	Molteni	s.t.
20	Geoffroy Lequatre	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
21	Ruslan Podgorny	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
22	Niels Albert	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
23	Luca Mazzanti	Molteni	s.t.
24	Bobbie Traksel	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
25	Grégory Rast	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
26	Pieter Mertens	M&M Cycling	s.t.
27	George Hincapie	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
28	Benjamin Noval	Molteni	s.t.
29	Mark Renshaw	Team Starbucks	s.t.
30	Matthew Goss	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
31	Kristjan Koren	Team Starbucks	s.t.
32	Eduard Vorganov	AON Global	s.t.
33	Francisco José Terciado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	s.t.
34	Tyler Brandt	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
35	Luis Pasamontes	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
36	Andrei Kunitski	M&M Cycling	s.t.
37	Zakkari Dempster	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
38	José Martins	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	s.t.
39	Igor Astarloa	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
40	Dennis Haueisen	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
41	Jorge Nogaledo	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
42	Fabian Wegmann	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
43	Jaoa Costa	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
44	Christian Vande Velde	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
45	Krzysztof Szczawinski	AON Global	s.t.
46	Michael Creed	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
47	Paul Martens	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
48	Gracjan Lejman	M&M Cycling	s.t.
49	Gerald Ciolek	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
50	Iñigo Landaluze	Molteni	s.t.
51	Tommy Zaini	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
52	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
53	Sergiu Cioban	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
54	Markus Fahnert	Team Starbucks	s.t.
55	Jaume Rovira	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
56	Ananias Ananias	THE CONTROL TEAM	+ 1'27
57	Scott Nydam	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
58	Robbie Williams	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
59	Ben Jacques-Maynes	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
60	Victor Gomes Colinas	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	s.t.
61	Taylor Tolleson	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
62	Christopher Sutton	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
63	Alexandre Pichot	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
64	Hayden Roulston	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
65	Will Frischkorn	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
66	Benoît Sinner	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
67	Ethan Weiss	BMC Racing Team	s.t.
68	Cornelius Van Ooijen	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
69	Ricardo Martins	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	s.t.
70	Hossaini Reza	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
71	Konstantin Klimiankou	M&M Cycling	s.t.
72	Muradjan Khalmuratov	AON Global	s.t.
73	Jonathan Tiernan-Locke	THE CONTROL TEAM	s.t.
74	Jeremy Powers	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
75	Peter Williams	THE CONTROL TEAM	s.t.
76	Sergey Sarkisov	THE CONTROL TEAM	s.t.
77	David Belda	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	+ 3'42
78	Bruno Lima	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	+ 4'23
79	Ricki Nelson	M&M Cycling	s.t.
80	Arnoud Van Groen	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
81	Jan Hruska	Molteni	s.t.
82	Ivano Lo Cicero	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
83	Alessio Signego	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
84	Sébastien Duret	AON Global	s.t.
85	Christoph Lasri	M&M Cycling	s.t.
86	Edoardo Girardi	AON Global	s.t.
87	Esteban Mardones	AON Global	s.t.
88	Jíri Hochmann	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	+ 5'52
89	Emiliano Rodomonti	Team Energie - Diesel	s.t.
90	Daniel Thorsen	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
91	Rahsaan Bahati	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	s.t.
92	Simon Clarke	IrnBru - RBS	s.t.
93	Ruben Bongiorno	Molteni	s.t.
94	Javier Benitez	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	+ 8'12
95	Azizulhasni Awang	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	+ 9'14

GC

1	Wes Sulzberger	IrnBru - RBS
2	Juan Van Heerden	AON Global	+ 14
3	Mark Renshaw	Team Starbucks	s.t.
4	Claudio Corioni	Team Energie - Diesel	+ 20
5	Tejay Van Garderen	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
6	Matthew Goss	Jack Wolfskin	+ 24
7	Jurgen Vandenbroeck	Molteni	+ 28
8	Kristjan Koren	Team Starbucks	s.t.
9	Francisco José Terciado	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	s.t.
10	Kim Kirchen	Jack Wolfskin	+ 32
11	Andrei Kunitski	M&M Cycling	s.t.
12	Bobbie Traksel	Jack Wolfskin	+ 34
13	Dries Devenyns	Molteni	s.t.
14	José Martins	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	+ 36
15	Michael Creed	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	+ 38
16	Giovanni Visconti	Team Starbucks	+ 40
17	Gerald Ciolek	Team LEGO - Capri-Sonne	s.t.
18	Ruslan Podgorny	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.
19	Luca Mazzanti	Molteni	s.t.
20	Valentino China	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	s.t.
21	Pieter Mertens	M&M Cycling	s.t.
22	Eduard Vorganov	AON Global	s.t.
23	Niels Albert	Jack Wolfskin	s.t.
24	Trent Lowe	Team Starbucks	s.t.
25	Enrico Gasparotto	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	s.t.

Points

1	Juan Van Heerden	AON Global	58
2	Wes Sulzberger	IrnBru - RBS	49
3	Matthew Goss	Jack Wolfskin	45
4	Claudio Corioni	Team Energie - Diesel	43
5	Igor Astarloa	Team Energie - Diesel	41
6	Kim Kirchen	Jack Wolfskin	35
7	Tejay Van Garderen	Wal-Mart Pro Cycling Team	34
8	Mark Renshaw	Team Starbucks	33
9	Jurgen Vandenbroeck	Molteni	29
10	Benoît Sinner	BMC Racing Team	26

KoM

1	Markus Fahnert	Team Starbucks	13
2	Cornelius Van Ooijen	IrnBru - RBS	8
3	Jorge Nogaledo	Team Energie - Diesel	8
4	Michael Creed	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	6
5	Grégory Rast	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	6
6	Konstantin Klimiankou	M&M Cycling	6
7	Will Frischkorn	Ernst and Young / Apple Computer and NBC News	5
8	Bruno Lima	Sport Lisboa e Benfica - Michelin	5
9	Marco Alexandre Ferreira Cunha	Team Energie - Diesel	3
10	Jaume Rovira	Team Olympus AirAsia - Presented by Petronas	3