A massive stage with big mountains! Vino will not go out today, his jersey is secure. The team will rather focus on protecting Brajko to help him achieve his goal!!
Today a big break is away 13 guys, but no one from our team, we are putting it all on Brajkovic!
Riders in the break: Thibaut Pinot (Damn) Ten Dam, Capecchi and so on. Good riders. the have got 11 minutes on the pack with 50 km to go!
Brajkovic takes his chance on the second to last climb with 50 km to go, he takes Kessiakoff with him to help get over this climb!
At the top thay have got 1'30 down, will Kessia be able to build it up down the decent?
With 14 km to go, Brajkovic goes at it alone and leaves Kessiakoff behind! 1'30 to the favourites!
But no he is caught and has to take a 28 th place and move up to a 11th in the overall classement!
David Moncoutie takes the win, the break held all the way!
Stage top 5
Spoiler
1. David Moncoutie 3h57'42
2. David Arroyo Duran +1'42
3. Remi Pauriol
4. Daniel Navarro Garcia
5. Chrstophe Riblon
This stage will not feature many updates as it is a boring flat stage before the time trial!
B. Kadri, S. Chainel, M. Bruseghin, V. Gusev, G. Verdugo Marcotegui, M. Wynants, M. Moser, J. Jørgensen and P. Niemiec form the break today but will surely be caught before the finish.
Bozic has the wheel of Greipel, looking to be the right choice, but can he manage?
But no, Bozic is just not strong enough and dos not have the power to go around Greipel as Greipel gets overtaken by the other favourites!
Cavendish takes the win!
Stage top 5
Spoiler
1. Mark Cavendish 5h09'07
2. Peter Sagan
3. Oscar Freire
4. Gerald Ciolek
5. John Degenkolb
Sprint overall
Spoiler
1. Mark Cavendish 350 pts (50)
2. Matt Goss 340 pts (26)
3. Peter Sagan 258 pts (39)
4. Oscar Freire 255 (31)
5. Andre Gripel 226 pts (13)
Looks promising for a good stage in Paris!
Time for the final Time Trial. Hopefully Brajko has a good day and can move a step up in to the top 10 and maybe Kessia can mix in the top of the stage, but we will see 185 riders are at the start of the time trial!
The TT is well under way and with 50 riders remaining to cross the finishing line the standings are like this:
Will the Classement change today? or will it just be the same?
Wiggins clocks in the best time at the 1st intermidiate time!
Janez is not riding well today, he is 31th at the 3rd clock!
Wiggins has overtaken both Cadel and Ryder!
The Race results!
A shame Brajko was not riding better today, he is just outside the top 10! what a shame!
