A nasty climb halfway through, but it will all be decided in the summit finish.
Visconti, Velo, Parra Bustamonte and Dupont are the break.
Visconti imploded on the climb halfway through as Velo struggled to hang on to the other two.
Not much happened over the next climb, although Mayo did attack with Pecharroman and Mercado. In the descent though, disaster for Andreas Kloden.
He got up and going again but the peleton are qoing quick now and any hopes Kloden had of overall victory are surely gone.
Mayo manages to catch the 3 man breakaway as we head towards the decisive final climb.
Gesink attacks! Mancebo and Arroyo respond, as do Zubeldia and Danielson.
They close in on Mayo, having passed the rest of the break.
And theyve soon dropped the Spaniard.
But Carlsberg and Credit Agricole have kept up a very strong chase, and the gap for the 5 is small when Vinokourov attacks.
He is not as strong today though and Mancebo claws the Kazakh back and comes through to take the KoM points.
So, an elite group of 12 leads up the climb with 4km to go.
Danielson, Gesink, Mancebo, Vinokourov, Bruseghin, Fothen, Zubeldia, Dekker, Gutierrez Cataluna, Rujano, Arroyo, Sanchez Gonzalez.
Only Mancebo, Vinokourov and Danielson have taken relays, suggesting that they are the strongest today. But suddenly - Gesink cracks!
They keep on climbing, and Vinokourov is on the front as the sprint begins.
And noone can get past him! Vinokourov wins again! Mancebo clings onto 2nd ahead of a fast finishing Fothen, with Zubeldia 4th.
Samuel Sanchez lost a minute in the final sprint, but Kloden lost a lot more. He had caught the back of the peleton, which was led home in 17th place by Denis Menchov - 3 minutes down. But while many of the peleton sprinted, Kloden did not, and through time gaps going badly for him, Kloden ends up losing 5 minutes and slipping to 14th in the GC.
1
Alexandre Vinokourov
CARLSBERG
5h25'21
2
Francisco Mancebo
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
3
Markus Fothen
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
4
Haimar Zubeldia
TELEFONICA
s.t.
5
Tom Danielson
FED-EX
s.t.
6
José Enrique Gutiérrez Cataluña
SATURN
s.t.
7
Thomas Dekker
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
8
José Rujano
CYCLING24 - HONDA
s.t.
9
Marzio Bruseghin
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
+ 26
10
David Arroyo
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
11
Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
+ 1'07
12
Robert Gesink
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 1'22
13
Julio Alberto Perez Cuapio
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
14
José Angel Gomez Marchante
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
15
Eddy Mazzoleni
CYCLING24 - HONDA
s.t.
16
Santiago Perez Fernandez
CYCLING24 - HONDA
+ 2'34
17
Denis Menchov
CARLSBERG
+ 2'56
18
Iban Mayo
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
19
Sérgio Paulinho
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
20
Isidro Nozal
CARLSBERG
s.t.
21
Matteo Carrara
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
22
Joan Horrach
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
23
Gianpaolo Caruso
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
24
Andrea Tonti
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
25
Oscar Sevilla
TELEFONICA
s.t.
26
Mauricio Ardila
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
27
Fredy Excelino González Martínez
CYCLING24 - HONDA
s.t.
28
Beñat Intxausti
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
29
Luis Leon Sanchez Gil
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
30
José Azevedo
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
31
Sandy Casar
SATURN
s.t.
32
Santiago Botero
FED-EX
s.t.
33
Dario David Cioni
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 3'40
34
Carlos Castaño
DISCOVERY CHANNEL PRO CYCLING TEAM
s.t.
35
Mauricio Ortega
SATURN
+ 3'50
36
José Antonio Pecharroman
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
37
Juan Miguel Mercado
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
38
José Luis Rubiera
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
39
Pieter Weening
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
s.t.
40
Gilberto Simoni
CARLSBERG
s.t.
41
Manuel Beltran
CARLSBERG
+ 4'10
42
Vitor Rodrigues
TELEFONICA
s.t.
43
Alex Ardila Cano
CARLSBERG
s.t.
44
Sylwester Szmyd
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
45
Branislav Samoilev
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
46
Ruggero Marzoli
CARLSBERG
s.t.
47
Wladimir Gustov
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
48
Jorge Giacinti
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
49
Theo Eltink
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
+ 4'38
50
Victor Niño
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 4'58
51
Christophe Brandt
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
52
David Moncoutié
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
53
Andreas Klöden
TEAM FLOGAS
s.t.
54
Stijn Devolder
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
55
Xavier Florencio
CYCLING24 - HONDA
s.t.
56
Alexandre Botcharov
DOMINA VACANZE
s.t.
57
Evgeni Petrov
DOMINA VACANZE
+ 6'09
58
Francesco Bellotti
CRÉDIT AGRICOLE
+ 6'44
59
Sergio Luis Henao Montoya
CARLSBERG
+ 7'24
60
Steve Zampieri
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
61
Remmert Wielinga
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
62
Rémy Di Gregorio
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 8'12
63
Carlos Barredo
CARREFOUR CYCLING
s.t.
64
José Serpa
TEAM FLOGAS
s.t.
65
Sergei Kolesnikov
TELEFONICA
+ 10'52
66
Addy Engels
CARREFOUR CYCLING
+ 11'00
67
Carlo Kirsch
ACCUMALUX
s.t.
68
David Loosli
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
69
Paolo Tiralongo
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
s.t.
70
David Abal
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 11'40
71
Sergio Pardilla
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
s.t.
72
Thomas Voeckler
AG2R PRÉVOYANCE - RENAULT
+ 12'12
73
Amaël Moinard
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
s.t.
74
Mirko Celestino
FED-EX
s.t.
75
Bingen Fernandez Bustinza
FRANCE TELEVISIONS
+ 12'20
76
Kai Reus
MAGENTA TREFOIL
s.t.
77
Christian Meier
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
s.t.
78
Marco Pinotti
CARLSBERG
s.t.
79
Sébastien Joly
SATURN
+ 12'28
80
Nikolai Trusov
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 13'00
81
Aleksandr Kolobnev
FERRARI - GUERCIOTTI
+ 13'40
82
Gorazd Stangelj
LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT
+ 13'48
83
Radoslav Rogina
COORDINADORA - EMPRESA DE ENERGÍA ELÉCTRICA DE BOYACÁ
