Wow I totally missed this! Still good luck. Looks fun, especially the stamps, which is a nice idea. By the way: which db are you using? An edited Legends DB?
MrUFo Well, I am glad you found it! I am enjoying the stamps, adds a new angle to the game, looking like we will get most of the at this point.
The database is mainly a custom one. I based it, somewhat, on the 2013 database, however, for jerseys I am also using the 2004 and 2007 databases. I only had to manually find the jerseys for HTC, Garmin - Cervelo and CSC - Saxo Bank. I went through all the stats of all the riders until I was happy with them.
If you want I could release the stats at the end.
sutty - A great sprint from Oscar, all the more impressive because he doesn't have a leadout like Quickstep and HTC.
Another sprint looks on the cards today, but you just never know! After Quickstep did all of the work yesterday, they were piped by Freire. Maybe some new tactics will come to the fore today.
Déjà vu
As he did two stages ago, Maarten Tjallingi would be first to attack once again. He would make the 9 man break of the day which also included: Grabsch, Verbrugghe, Fischer, Klier, Fedrigo, Sieberg, Casper and Bak (Best placed @ 5'47).
Grabsch, with the knowledge that teammate Kirchen is in yellow, by far, did less turns on the front of the break.
The rear of the peloton.
HTC, Fasso Bortolo and Quickstep take charge again. Tony Martin drives along the peloton.
It was your typical flat stage .... until we reached the intermediate sprint with 27 KM to go when the race would be blown apart.
Such was the speed of the sprinters at the intermediate point that, when they looked behind, they had some gap back to the sauntering peloton. When the sprinters looked around they saw that, green jersey, Hushovd wasn't there. THEY PUSHED ON!
Yes Petacchi, Boonen, Cavendish began to really push on with McEwen, Kirsipuu, Sagan and Oscar Freire as passengers.
No reaction from behind!
As Cavendish and Boonen up the tempo Garmin - Cervelo briefly come to the front of the peloton, then quickly come off, refusing to set the tempo. Hushovd can't be feeling too good today.
The peloton sits up.
With 20 KM to go the peloton is taking it really easy. The gap grows out to the original break and the new break of super sprinters. T-Mobile seem to forget that Sagan is at 4'27 and Freire is at 4'32 down in the GC.
With 19 KM to go:
Original break
Sprinters breakaway @ 1'00
Peloton @ 2'00.
Tjallingi attacks with 15 KM to go.
The Dutch rider attacks and only Verbrugghe, Grabsch and Fedrigo can follow. It is a really good opportunity for the original break with the peloton sitting up and the sprinters breakaway not working well together.
Grabsch attacks.
With 11 KM to go, after sitting on the rear of the break for much of the day, Grabsch puts in an attack. The high pace of the attacking out front means the sprinters breakaway are having real trouble closing down the riders out front.
Fedrigo is strong and enough to counter Grabsch and ....
Fedrigo Attacks!
The Bouygues Telecom rider gets a gap back to Grabsch, Tjallingi and Verbrugghe with under 10 KM to go. The gap reaches and holds '20 before the three start working really well together as a bombshell, in the form of a mass crash, goes off in the peloton.
(Bottom Left) Contador badly entwined with Ivan Basso.
Adam Hansen and Richie Porte touch wheels which causes a mass crash which effects around 75 riders. Some real big names are down. Multiple Discovery Channel riders are seen dropping back to help the biggest casualty, Contador.
Many big names are dropped. Kivilev, Menchov, van Garderen and Thomas are all downed and we have news of the first abandonment of this Tour de France .....
Frank Schleck is the first to abandon.
It is a big name which is the first to drop out. The Luxembourger has had some sorry luck this Tour and does not continue.
What is the reaction of T-Mobile to the crash?
T-Mobile push on the pace.
As soon as the crash occurs, T-Mobile put the likes of Roger Hammond on the front of the peloton not making many allies. No doubt they will say they were defending Kirchen's yellow jersey with Sagan and Freire both well over 5'00 up the road.
Into the last kilometre Fedrigo still has '15 over the Grabsch group, and with the sprinters breakaway at '35 it looks as if the Frenchman will hang on for the win.
Fedrigo takes a special win for Bouygues Telecom!
The stage hunter snaps up another one, he attacked at the right time and is rewarded with a win for the underdogs!
Grabsch wasn't too far behind at the finish. Tjallingi, finishes 3rd for the second time, at least he moves to within 1 point of the lead in the points competition.
McEwen leads home the sprinters group, they finished so quickly they were credited with the same time as Fedrigo. Cavendish and Boonen, after doing the most work, finish at the rear of the group.
It was said before this Tour de France that Bouygues Telecom were the minnows here and to win a stage would be fantastic. Not even one week into this Tour they have their win and they have deserved it.
With Sagan and Freire finishing well ahead of the peloton, will there be a change in yellow? ....
Sagan moves into the race lead.
The Liquigas rider moves into yellow by the narrowest of margins as T-Mobile, ultimately, failed to defend Kirchen's lead. Many will say that is Karma for T-Mobile, after they pushed on once the crash occurred.
Contador and Basso lose 2'27 to the peloton. Basso's hopes a good GC now look over and it certainly looks like uphill work for Contador.
The final flat stage for the sprinters for a good 5 five stages, it looks like another showdown for the great sprinters here but after Fedrigo's win yesterday you just never know.
Turgot: The first to attack.
Europcar have got very little out of this Tour de France so far, Turgot showed they are still in the race, and fighting, by being the first to attack on a day which was doused in rain.
Elmiger takes 20 more points at the intermediate sprint.
He didn't sprint for them, but the Swiss rider notches up more points. If, somehow, the break would survive today he knew he would be back in the green jersey.
Cavendish gains the most intermediate points from the sprinters.
Once again Mark Cavendish was the quickest sprinter through the intermediate point, but his reward was only 2 points. He has to stop winning these skirmishes and start winning stages if he wants that green jersey!
With 179 KM to go a 13 man break was established. The polka dots of Daniel Oss made the break today, potentially he could have lost the polka dots on this stage but with Gerrans not taking all the KOM points on offer he knew that his jersey was safe, even if he didn't pick up any more points himself.
Results from the intermediate sprint/ breakaway members:
Jose Joaquin Rojas would fall and lose over 11'00, but arguably the biggest loser today was Axel Merckx, who started the stage 28th in GC. He would come home last on the stage, bruised and battered, over 14'00 down. With that he would wave goodbye to his GC hopes.
They weren't the only two to suffer...
Porte and Basso continue to suffer.
Porte and Basso, having already lost plenty of time in the GC, would lose even more time today after being dropped by the peloton on the flat. They will hope against hope that they can recover for the mountain stages.
Robert Förster, would become our second abandonment after calling it a day with 32 KM to go.
HTC do all the chasing today.
Despite, at one point, the break having over 10 minutes on the peloton the break were always well in control. But would HTC be willing to pull along the rest of the peloton to the finish?
Vansummeren attacks with 6 KM to go.
He is shadowed by, of all people, David Moncoutié as the two riders quickly bridge the '10 gap to the remaining breakaway of Gerrans, Elmiger and Camaño.
Vansummeren, clearly the freshest, continues alone, flying straight past the break and leaving Moncoutié in his dust.
The peloton .... slow up.
HTC stop riding! They are not willing to do all of the riding on the front of the peloton, that is not like them! Few spectators can believe their eyes, they are effectively gifting the stage win to Vansummeren as the gap to the Belgian soon spirals outwards. MADNESS!
Two stage wins for Garmin - Cervelo!
Garmin - Cervelo become the first team here to win two stages, after a second win in very different style to the first. Vansummeren's brave late attack shows that if you are bold enough to attack, you never know when victory will come your way.
Gerrans takes his second 2nd place at this Tour de France, he was the best of the original break today but will be rueing just missing out on the top spot on the podium. Moncoutié, 3rd, earns Cofidis' best result so far after an uncharacteristic late attack on the flat which bodes well for anyone who wants to see him in the mountains in the coming days.
Elmiger finishes 4th, a result which would be good enough to see him regain the points jersey. Surely a breakaway rider can't win the green jersey? He will lead that competition by 25 points at the end of the stage.
HTC lead home the peloton.
After a crazy last 6 kilometres it is Eisel and Renshaw who lead home the peloton, denying Cavendish some points! Cavendish, 9th, may have been denied some points by his teammates but moves up to second in the green jersey standings, 25 points behind Elmiger, as he was comfortably the best placed flat out sprinter with Kirsippu (12th) and Petacchi (15th) being the best of the rest.
sutty - Yes, he has held the yellow jersey, but with hard stages to come, he won't hold it for much longer, will he?
First week review
We are already one week into this ultimate race, can you believe it? Yes, despite no major mountains being encountered there has been a lot of action for everyone to sink their eyes into with 5 teams already claiming a stage win. Barring Cancellara winning the prologue there has been no clear cut winner on any stage. Surprises just keep on coming, testament to this are the stage victories for Fedrigo on stage 5 and Vansummeren on stage 6, stages which were supposed to end in bunch sprints.
Team Review: (A quick summary on how teams have performed so far, ranked from best to worst.)
T-Mobile stand out as the top performing team so far at this Tour de France for two reasons. 1) Kirchen taking a combative stage victory. 2) They are the only team to have two real GC contenders (Klöden & Vinokourov) under 2:00 down in GC. They didn't earn too many allies when they accelerated on stage 5, after Contador's crash, which may well come back to haunt them.
Garmin - Cervelo are right up there in this ranking after being the only team to take two stage wins thus far. Hushovd, despite not being seen in the last two stages, is well positioned in the race for the green jersey and Hesjedal (17th @ 1'10) is well placed to put in a good GC performance. Liquigas are ranked 3rd in this ranking after a respectable first week which has seen them take the yellow jersey with Sagan. They can be happy with how Nibali (9th in GC) has gotten through the first week. However, their first week has been tempered by the performance of the battered Ivan Basso who has lost 13'00 and the fact they haven't really the riders to defend the yellow jersey.
Discovery Channel, at the bottom of the table, prop up these rankings. Good showings from George Hincapie (7th in GC) do nothing to lift them up the table as their star rider, Alberto Contador, was caught up in a crash on stage 5 and finds himself 3'33 down in GC which equates to being over 2'00 down on Andy Schleck, Cadel Evans and Chris Froome. However, with the mountains starting on stage 8 and a hard hilly stage on stage 7 coming up thick and fast Discovery Channel will be looking to turn this ship right around.
Sky Procycling are one place off the bottom. A good prologue from Wiggins and some top 10s from Boasson Hagen do nothing to lessen the fact that Wiggins and Porte have lost a stack of time and look to be suffering badly. Froome, would have hoped to have put in a better prologue time so we can't say if he is a match for the other GC men.
Europcar are right down in the rankings after a barren showing so far. They will be looking to make ground in week two on other French teams such as Bouygues Telecom and Cofidis, who have out performed them so far. Voeckler is only 1'23 down in GC, but we have yet to see him put in an attack, will we as he is right up there in GC?
Team Time Rankings:
Spoiler
Lotto - Domo
85h23'59 (1)
Liquigas
+ 4'10 (2)
Rabobank
+ 5'40 (3)
T-Mobile
+ 6'00 (4)
Fasso Bortolo
+ 7'30 (5)
Quickstep - Innergetic
+ 7'39 (6)
Garmin - Cervelo
+ 8'31 (7)
Crédit Agricole
+ 10'06 (8)
AG2R Prévoyance
+ 10'24 (9)
CSC - Saxo Bank
+ 11'46 (10)
Caisse d'Epargne
+ 13'44 (11)
Europcar
+ 15'36 (12)
Discovery Channel
+ 16'14 (13)
Sky Procycling
+ 16'17 (14)
Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
+ 16'50 (15)
Euskaltel - Euskadi
+ 18'22 (16)
Milram
+ 21'25 (17)
HTC - Columbia
+ 22'53 (18)
Francaise Des Jeux
+ 24'16 (19)
Bouygues Telecom
+ 27'07 (20)
Lotto - Domo lead the team time rankings, a position they might well keep if the likes of Horner and Van den Broeck are fit and well and able to support Cadel Evans who is right up there in GC. They are ranked pretty lowly in our team ranking as they have not shown too much throughout the race and in their camp the negatives (Horner, Merckx, VDB crashing & no stage win) seem to outweigh the positives (Evans up there in GC, leading the team time rankings).
Milram and Bouygues Telecom are right up there in our rankings, they are probably the two smallest teams here and each already have a stage win. HTC near the bottom of the rankings. Yes, Cavendish is up there in the battle for the green jersey but they will be disappointed they haven't won a stage yet.
The Stamps!
7 down - 13 to go!
We have unlocked 7 of the stamps already, time will tell how many more we will unlock.
Next up are two hilly stages which sandwich two mountain stages, all looks to change in this ultimate Tour de France as the big favourites will, for the first time, come to the fore. The harder terrain will likely result in many more retirements to add to the two riders, Robert Förster and Frank Schleck, who have retired already.
We will be back after another seven days of action to see how the race fares then.
Bad luck for Bertie with the crash and certainly no fairplay by T-Mobile, however fans would argue that the race was on that point. We'll be exciting to see how Bertie strikes at T-Mobile once the mountains come. Quite an intense first week. Best sprinter teams in the world and they can't even guarante a bunch sprint - but then again, the best breakaway-riders are here too.
"It’s a little bit scary when Contador attacks." - Tommy V
Shonak - Thanks for that. I'm glad your enjoying them. Goodness knows what the sprinters' teams have been thinking, do they want to win that green jersey?!
Contador may have been caught up in a crash, but will he bounce back? ... find out tonight!
Selwink - Thanks. The race really starts to hot up from the next stage onwards. Well Tjallingi has been up there, but other than that ....., I don't see where a Dutch win is coming from. (Rabobank are regretting not choosing Boogerd!)
SSJ2LUIGI - Rojas doesn't look like he will be winning in this tour anytime soon. Glad I got you reading! The next week update should be even more action packed.
@ sutty - Thanks sutty. It definitely highlights the teams that need to do something.
A hard hilly stage is in order today, this may well be the first stage where we see the GC favourites come to the fore. Some need to after already losing time. How will the likes of Contador perform after crashing in the first week?
Christophe Kern: The last rider to make the 10 man break today.
Freire picks up 5 more points at the intermediate sprint point, maybe a good move in the long run.
A 10 man break are established as the race passes through the intermediate sprint, no sprinters, but puncheurs, contest for the minor points on offer today.
Results from intermediate sprint (Breakaway riders):
You might expect the Estonian to be dropped this early on those unforgiving hills but you wouldn't expect the Tasmanian to be dropped. However, they would both make the time limit today which gives Porte another day to try and recover.
Rogers then Gerdemann lead the peloton.
The day looked perfect terrain for a breakaway win but T-Mobile and Caisse d'Epargne were having none of it. The two teams would begin to chase the peloton from 96 KM to go with the break at 8'00.
The fight for the polka dots: Knees takes this KOM summit.
With no Daniel Oss in the break we would certainly have a new wearer of the polka dots jersey today. Either Nocentini or Knees would be in the red and white at the end of the stage, this would be decided at the final climb with 17 KM to go.
Narrow roads decimate the peloton.
That old bugger: narrow roads! With 74 KM to go the peloton is down to 54 riders. Hincapie and Kirchen, are right up there in GC, and were surprisingly dropped after being caught unawares.
Sastre, Wiggins, Bettini, Gerdemann and Basso would all be dropped here and would not make it back to the peloton today.
Caisse d'Epargne push on the peloton.
The peloton swells back up to 89 riders with the likes of Kirchen and Hincapie regaining contact with 28 KM to go, capitalising from a slight slow up in the peloton as they reach the lower slopes of the final climb on the stage.
The break have 4'30 advantage over the peloton at this time, with only Geslin and Cooke dropped, it is looking good for the original break.
Vinokourov attacks!
As soon as the peloton hit the final climb Vino goes, he is countered immediately by Joaquím Rodríguez.
EVANS!
Shortly afterwards we get the first real look at Cadel Evans in this Tour de France. He attacks, strongly, across to the duo to make a very capable triplet. All this attacking is seeing the original break's advantage disappear like magic.
FROOME .... CONTADOR
Now the real big favourites are attacking. This is the Tour de France!
Contador shadowed Froome's attack before going off into the distance in search of the Evans/Vino/Rodriguez group. Yes, Contador is fine.
Other favourites realize they need to do something, so we see attacks from: Schleck, Hesjedal, Valverde and Moreau.
Nocentini takes the final summit.
The original break just hold off the super fast favourites at the final KOM summit of the day with 17 KM to go. Nocentini takes the KOM points and will be in the polka dots at the end of the stage.
The unmistakable Voeckler leads the peloton.
The race with 13 KM to go:
Original break + Contador/ Vino/ Evans/ Rodriguez
Froome/ A Schleck/ Hesjedal/ Valverde/ Moreau @ '40
36 man Peloton (yellow jersey) @ 1'00
Valverde pushes on in the first chase group.
Tommy Voeckler attacks!
The Frenchman attacks out of the peloton with 10 KM to go. No one went with him and he was quickly caught by the Nibali lead peloton, who are quickly gaining on the strong riders out front.
5 KM to go: Purrito goes again!
The peloton catch the favourites out front and Purrito puts in another attack. However, on the flat run-in, he is caught by Contador, Vino, Froome, Schleck and the rest of the peloton seconds behind.
Contador senses a win!
Just as Purrito is caught, Albert Contador attacks under the 1 KM to go banner, knowing he can't win a sprint against the riders here, he goes for a long one.
It looks to be a good move, as there is the smallest hesitation amongst the favourites.
CONTADOR WINS. CONTADOR TAKES VENGEANCE!
There were many questions about Contador coming into this stage, with that win, on a route which didn't suit him perfectly, he answered them with a resounding stage victory. That was Contador at his best, using his strengths and master tactics to outfox the opposition and take a win. One day after Discovery Channel were ranked as the worst team they go and win a stage!
Vinokourov, has to settle for second, will be gutted that his nemesis beat him to the stage win today. However, Vino has looked in stellar form in this Tour de France up to now. Cadel Evans rounds off the podium and Peter Sagan, was one of the fastest finishers in the 52 man peloton, retains the yellow jersey.
Sagan: The last day in yellow?
With a tough mountain top finish to come on stage 8, it looks like this will be the last day we will see Peter Sagan in yellow at this Ultimate Tour de France.
Martin Elmiger holds onto the points jersey and his teammate, Rinaldo Nocentini, now leads the KOM competition. This has been some Tour de France for AG2R Prévoyance, all that is missing for them is the stage win.
Shonak - You're a sly one I meant it when I wrote all the riders here are at their highest level (or very close to it), including Basso and Wiggins. They have just had some bad luck compared to others. They don't look as injured as Porte though, finishing down with Kirsipuu. (They might show themselves yet when we get to the mountains.)
@ sutty - About time! Two action packed mountain stages are to follow. Action packed being an understatement.
What a stage we have today. The first mountainous stage of this Tour de France sees three hard climbs surface in the last third of the race:
- Col de la Ramaz (12.9 KM @ 7.5%)
- Cote des Gets ( 4 KM @ 3.8%)
- Monte d'Avoriaz ( 12.9 KM @ 6.5%)
van Garderen was the first to attack on the day.
Some of the climbers well down in GC, such as Bruseghin/ Guerini and Laiseka, were prominent in the early attacks.
Oss and Popovych drive the peloton along.
Liquigas and Discovery Channel were fervent that a break shouldn't get away too early today. As a result there was no break with 96 KM to go, as the intermediate sprint is reached, after a fast pace all day long on a day where the leg warmers were really needed.
Sagan takes 11 points at the intermediate sprint.
A break tries to form as the intermediate sprint is reached.
Shortly afterwards a 10 man quality break establishes.
The break: Fothen, Weening, Bruseghin, Laiseka, Gautier, Vaughters, Pineau, van Garderen, Duque and Valjavec. Gautier (@ 17'57) and Bruseghin (@ 18'34) were the only riders below 20'00 in GC, a good break to let get away up the road.
Fischer and Chicchi lead the peloton.
It was good to see Liquigas defend the yellow jersey of Sagan.
Leipheimer attacks!
The American attacks out of the peloton with the break at 4'00 with 64 KM to go, at this point we are still 18 KM out from the start of the first real climb of the day.
Levi started the day 44th @ 9'20, so he really did need to make up some time if he had any GC ambitions.
WIGGINS!
Wiggins lead the peloton on the narrow roads of the col de la Ramaz. CSC and Sky up the pace with 54 KM to go with the original break @ 4'50, clearly confident in the abilities of Schleck and Froome.
Pierre Rolland attacks!
With 40 KM to go the peloton is down to just 51 riders with Carlos Sastre setting a fierce pace, this doesn't stop the aggressive Pierre Rolland from attacking out of the peloton with the break at 3'22.
Sagan looks to be coping very well, however, Kim Kirchen is well dropped at this point and, unlike the previous stage, he wouldn't make it back today.
Joaquím Rodríguez is dropped!
As Rolland attacks we see that Purrito has got into difficulty, he has Oscar Pereiro setting pace in a group off the rear of the peloton. This is in stark contrast to yesterday when we saw Purrito put in attack after attack, with 37 KM to go is this the end of Joaquím Rodríguez's GC hopes?
Fothen takes the KOM points on the Ramaz climb.
Levi Leipheimer, finally, bridges across to the break as Fothen takes the KOM points on the Ramaz climb. It still looks like the peloton will catch the break at this point with 33 KM to go. With 20 KOM points on offer at the end of the stage, the stage winner will don the polka dots today.
VandeVelde and Van den Broeck attack
They may not be the GC leaders in their respective teams but the duo attacked out of the peloton over the top of the Ramaz climb.
Hejsedal animates the race.
With Rolland, VandeVelde and Van den Broeck caught we see Ryder Hejsedal go on the attack on the penultimate climb, the cot des Gets. He is right up there in GC and, with 21 KM to go, he is countered by Voeckler, Menchov, Contador, Sami Sanchez and David Moncoutié.
All these attacks are brought back and the final climb looms. The original break would have 2'00 with 11 KM to go, Sagan still riding strongly towards the front of the peloton.
Bruseghin attacks!
Sensing a potential stage win, Bruseghin attacks out of the original break with 11 KM to go.
Voigt leads the peloton.
Despite the action on the penultimate climb there are no big attacks from the favourites early on the final climb. The advantage to the break out front doesn't decrease, it holds.
Sagan: What an effort!
With just 3 KM to go, the yellow jersey, Sagan is still right at the front of the 44 man peloton, he is fighting tooth and nail for this jersey. However, the final kilometres of this climb are the hardest and he could still lose the jersey.
Laiseka attacks!
After Brusegin's lone effort came to nothing, with 2.5 KM to go, it is the Basque rider Laiseka who puts in an attack. Thanks to some tentative riding from the favourites it looks as if the break might take the win today, will it be Laiseka?
Leipheimer and Valjavec catch Laiseka!
With 1.5 KM to go we have 3 men out front. With the peloton still over 1'00 behind it looks as if one of this trio will take the stage win. Many people fancy Leipheimer, as the more noted climber, to take the stage win from here .....
Valjavec distances Leipheimer.
With 1 KM the Slovenian climber distances Leipheimer! He looks to have some reserves left in the tank as well, the stage win looks in the bag for AG2R.
However, behind, the favourites have started to motor and many are now suffering, Sagan is dropped with riders like Contador, Schleck and Nibali pushing on.
Schleck gets a gap!
Leipheimer and Laiseka are caught with the finish less than 200 meters away, Andy Schleck leads the charge. The Luxembourger gets a gap back to the other big favourites who form a 13 man group, Klöden and Sami Sanchez are surprising absentess from this group.
Sagan, is further behind, and is losing time by the second. His performance has been fantastic today, but alas, he looks certain to lose the yellow jersey.
Valjavec wins on Monte d'Avoriaz!
A great climbing display sees Tadej Valjavec take the stage win after a ding-dong battle with the other breakaway riders.
Schleck takes 2nd
Andy Schleck comes home at '35, but more importantly he puts '10 into the other big favourites with a big statement. Saying ' I am the best climber here'.
Nibali looks great.
The Italian leads home 1 strong 14 man group of big favourites at '45, declaring himself a real contender for the GC here.
Klöden, Sami Sanchez and Menchov lose more time than most GC favourites today coming home @ 1'19. However, Joaquím Rodríguez looks to have moved out of the GC battle today after coming home @ 4'38.
Super Sagan!
Sagan put in brilliant ride up the mountains today. He would finish 27th @ 2'16, not even losing 2'00 to the likes of Schleck and Contador.
However, as great as his performance was, he would lose the yellow jersey today. But to who? .......
Honchar takes the yellow jersey!
Yes, the Ukrainian really put in one great ride to finish in the Nibali/Contador group and is rewarded with the yellow jersey. A great moment for Fasso Bortolo. He leads from the Frenchman, Moreau, by '10 seconds.
With a hard stage up next can Honchar hold the yellow?
What a Tour de France for AG2R Prévoyance
AG2R will be the team of this Tour de France for many, so far, after this stage. They have now taken a stage win and hold the points jersey and now have a different rider in the polka dots.