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Tour de France 2010: Stage 11

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January 1 - July 25, Sisteron, France, Road - GT

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This is one for the sprinters again. Which of the men with the fast legs has best come over the Alps? The finale should be an exciting one, with lots of big names fighting it out for the precious green jersey points.
 

Hello and welcome back to the Tour de France. The 11th stage sees us turn away from the Alps, and this “flat” stage is going to be♎ one for the sprinters again. The two questions of the day are, whe🐎n will the peloton catch the expected escape group, and which of the mighty sprinters will gallop to the finish line first?

T🉐here was another early, and successful, attack today. As soon as race director Christian Prudhomme dropped the flag, an attack set off. Anthony Geslin (FdJ), Stephane Auge ( Cofidis) and Jose-Alberto Benitez (Footon) had built up a gap of up to 2:45 for themselves, but it is now down to 3;10.

We are now down to 179 riders. Robbie Hunter (Garmin-Transitions) and Charles Wegelius of Omega Pharma-Lotto were not at the start.
 

Hunter crashed early in yesterday's stage and suffered a broken bone near the elbow. He had hoped to 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:go ahead and ride today.

Wegelius was hit by the inte🎃stinal virus, and is ✅unable to retain any food or drink. You just can't ride under those circumstances!

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For those of you playing our Easton-Cyclingnews Wheelset a Day Giveaway during the Tour de France, here is your trivia question for the day:
How many times has current World Champion and BMC team leader Cadel Evans finished the Tour de France on the podꦏium?

Looks like we start🌳ed out with some techinical problems today, but thanks to those with greater m▨inds than me, we are now up and going.

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The UCI is still scanning bikes to see if anyone has sneaked a motor or baꦕttery in. So far no one has. Yesterday they checked out Paulinho (RadioShack), Kolo🍒bnev (Katusha), Roche (AG2R), Bouet (AG2R), Aerts (Omega Pharma-Lotto) and Rolland (Bbox).

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Brecht Decaluwe was at the start today for Cyclingnews. He tells us that HTC-Columbias Ralf Aldag said his guys have the job not to let breaks go with riders from other sprinter teams. They would work. to make it a sprint. "We will work, but not for intermediate sprints. Hopefully other teams will lend a hand."
 

Decaluwe also talked to Garmin-Transitions's sprinter Tyler Farrar: "It should be a sprint. There are not many sprints left in the Tour and we have not won one y🐼et, so we are motivated for today. The important thing is not to have a big group away at the beginning."

We are coming up to our one and onlꦿy climb today. Here are the details:

18 riders failed to sign in this morning. That means 16 of them forgot or were too late or or or....
 

There was a 50 km transfer to the start this morning, notes Milram's Christian ♏Knees. “From the map it looks like a sprint today!” No surrprise who he picked to win today. “So go, Gerald”.

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'And they🐭 went over in this orde:  Benitez, Auge and Geslin.

Four or five ri𓆉des break from the peloton to gather the la𓆉st mountain points.

Pineau was able to grab the points, and add to his total to keep the polka-dot jersꦐey another day.

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HTC-Columbia's Alan Peiper thinks Mark Cavendish will have a good chance today. “It's a great opportunity for♊ Mark to get some points and close the gap in the race for Green so we can't take any chances at all with the stage. We'll be looking to control the race from the front - ideally there will be a break of about four people and then we can get Grabsch and Montfort to the front of the peloton and control the gap.

Team Sky has reluctantly but realistically given up on the idea of Bradley Wiggins finishing on the Tour podium. What to do now? 168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Look for stage wins, of course.

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Down, down, down the mountain they all go....

Lamꦕpr🍷e and HTC are sharing the lead work in the peloton.

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We see World cha🙈mpion Cadel Evans at the back of the field.

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Mathieu Perget of Caisse d'Epargne is back amongst the team cars, with his jersey pul🦩led up.  We su🌱spect he is gong back for radio repairs.

Mark Cavendish's next Tour stage win will be his 13th, which would put him one up on hs mentor, Erik Zabel.  It took the German seven years to garner those wins, whilst the Briton has done it in only three years.

Ah, 🀅how lovely.  The peloton just went by a field of lavender.

And here🔯 is a highly-paid water  carrier.  Alessandro Petacchi packs his jersey full with water bottles for his teammat🉐es.

Let's take a look at our three escapees.  Stephane Auge, 35, rides for Cofidi🍎s, and is in his eight Tour.  He won a stage his first time out in 2002.  In 2007 he won the combativity award for one stage, and wore the polka-dot jersey for two days.  He had that jersey for a day in 2009, too.

Geslin, 30, is with FdJ.  He turned pro with Bouygues Telecomin 2002, and stayed with them until joining FdJ last year.  He won the Brabantse Pijl last year.
 

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Benitez is 28.  He turned pro with Spuik in 2005, before joining Sauner-Duval, Footon's predecessor team, the next year.  He is makin💞g his Tour debut.

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That was it for me today.  I'm handing off to Dan Benson who will bring you safely to the ma🔴ss sprint finish today.

Thanks Susan.

The bunch are still having their lunch, Saxo's Cancellara is munching aw💮ay on an energy bar of some kind. How come every time I see him in the bunch he's either eating or 🌞smashing it on the front?

Basso's having a can of Coke. Wow I've really walked straight into the action haven't I✱?

Anyway the gap is under two minutes, now 1:57 to be precise. Nice to see Footon in the break here. A♎pparently the riders in the bunch are getting used to the kit now, and believe it or not it's actually looked upon now as 'not that bad' by some of the peloton.

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Bad new fꦫor Garmin-Transitions thܫis morning was that Robbie Hunter wasn't able to start. Hunter, who, how should we put it, has a colourful twitter account, broke a bone in his arm in a crash yesterday.

The guys out front are rid🍷ing into a headwind so it's tough out ♐there, especially on these wide roads.

Contador and Schleck are next to each other having a little chat. Both 🎃riders ꦜseem to have a fair amount of respect for each other. They bumped into each other in recon rides during June and often swap text messages to each other. Friendship will be put aside when they race in the Pyrenees though.

Another picturesque scene as the p♉eloton rides through the French countryside. On one side a lake and on the other rolling hillsides.

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Lots of transfer news in world of cycling at the moment but another story that's causing headlines is this. Former UCI grand fromꩲage exchanging emails with Flloyd Lℱandis.

Cavendish and Armstrong are talking in the bunch. Looks pretty relaxed and happy. Cavendish is the big favourite for today's finish. It's a perfect opportunity for a sprint and having bounced back and won two stages♏ in the race already, he'll be confident of making it three.

Sastre is near t𓂃he front. A difficult year for the Spaniard so far. He struggled with his health in the Giro and he's been off the pace so far this year. It feels much longer than two years ago since he won the Tour de France.

We've got a sp𒁃rint coming up in 500 meters. Doubt the three leaders will contest the points.

So assuming we do have a sprint today, who ar♓e tipping for the win? Let me know at

Rémi Pauriol has a flat and needs some helไp from the team car. All done and now he's chasing back through the carꦺs.

Chepe Gonzalez won a stage🐠 into Vale𒅌nce in 1996. Anyone remember his celebration? Pretty good I thought, arms everywhere.

Here's our first prediction: 

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Dave ൲Zabriskie pulling on the front now for his man Farrar. Zabriskie has been quiet in this year's Tour. Some had him down as doing a s๊trong ride in this year's race. He's been a good teammate but hasn't done much on an individual level.

Here's a look at how things stand in the green jersey competition. It could ch🌟ange hands today.

No Cervelo action at the front of the bunch yet. Either Thor knows he's not goi🍌ng to win today or as speculation we've heard suggest, he's not at 100 per cent right now.

What about Oscar Freire?&n🎀bsp;He's 🎐been no where in the sprints in this year's Tour so far. Perhaps it could be his day...

&✱nbsp;But don't expect it to all go the sprinters way today. No doubt we'll have some s💜uicide attacks in the final few kilometers of the stage. Vino? Jens?

Another prediction:

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FYI 🐭Bruyneel tipped Cavendish for today's stage too. A lot of you agree with him 💫according to the tweets you've sent in.

What 🐓did we do before Twitter existed? How did we cope?

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Bunch are heading north now towards the finish. There is a descent before the finish by the way so ☂that could play a part today.

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Zabriskie stil onꦆ the front and Bole comes through and takes a tur💫n. Milram up there as well.

We've got one little climb at about 12km t𓂃o go, then a descent and a tailwind finish. They'll be flying by then.

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Shack near the front now too, helping to keep the pace high (ish) and keeping the🍬ir ꦑleader out of trouble.

Columbia setting the pace now. Four or five Shack riders just behind.🅰 Vino near theꦫ front too.

Liquigas and Milram moving their men to the front. Katusha jerseys hovering close by tooꩵ.

FDJ send two men out from the bunch.

They dont have ꦆa sprinter so they might as well give it a go but they're already caught.

Saxo are looking after Schl👍eck now, he's got five riders around him to make sure that he's okay.

Long line now so the bunch are finally working.

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Contador 🅠is trying to move up on the outside, Saxo setting a blistering pace.

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Eisel is near the front now, Cav will be☂ close to him. Thor is on his own, he's on Cav's wheel. smart move.

Hunt is there but is isolated from his leader.

Cancellara now on the front t♍akiꦆng up the challenge

Riders getting dropped here.

Pineau one of the riders dropped. 

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Contador is messing with his ear piece but he has to focus here, it's not an easy run in and Saxo are puttin⛦g down the hammer.

HTC letting Saxo do all the work here.

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Chavanel attacks. Popo on his wheel and HTC f🌟inally come❀ through

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The two riders have a gap of around 50 m𝕴eters but they'll be caught ver♏y soon.

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One rider 🍷we've not talked about is McEwen, could it be his day today?

Armstro𒁏ng near the back of the bunch and Lampre lead the bunch now.

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Lampre keep Sky in check with a little look and surge. Huntꦇ pulls off he's cooked and Van Summeren is there for Farrar.

Thomas is moving 🎐up, Hagen on his wheel. So many sprinters in the mix here.

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Renshaw now moving up Dean there with Farrar.

Renshaw and dean clash heads

They almost come down. Cav now comes out but has he gone too soon. Petacchi is on his wheel⛄. ✃Farrar is fading.

Cav is going to take it.

Huge gap.

Hushovd in 7th. That's Cavendish's third s✱tage win of the race.

A great finale. Cavendish tak⛎ing the win. He ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚhad to go early there, with over 300 meters to go. He caught the other napping.

Petacchi 𝕴moves into green wi🍌th his second place, Hushovd was boxed in there.

A 13th stage wi🐭n for Cavendis🌱h. He now surpasses Erik Zabel's 12.

Well, thanks for joining us today a🐷nd please tune in tomorrow for another day at the Tour de France.

1 Mark Cavendish (GBr) Team HTC - Columbia
2 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
3 Tyler Farrar (USA) Garmin - Transitions
4 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
5 Robbie Mcewen (Aus) Team Katusha
6 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
7 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Cervelo Test Team
8 Lloyd Mondory (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale
9 Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Omega Pharma-Lotto
10 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Milram

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