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Tour de France 2012: Stage 10

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January 1 - Jul🌺y 22, Mâcon, Fra, Road - WorldTour

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Welcome to our live coverage 🐼of stage 10 from the 2012 ꦉTour de France. Let's hope that the riders took full advantage of the rest day yesterday as today's stage is a 194.5km humdinger that includes the first HC climb of the Tour so far, the Col du Grand Colombier.

We've got just under ten minutes until tꦓhe riders start the sta🅘ge.

194km remaining from 194km

189km remaining from 194km

Cyril Lemoine (Saur-Sojasun) and breakaway artiste Andriy Grivko (Astana) a🧸re the two riders with Sagan.

David Millar (Garmin-Sharp) launches a brief counter attack but is quickly reeled back in by theౠ main peloton.

182km remaining from 194km

Today's stage is the first time that the Grande Colombier has been used in the Tour de France. It's fearsome reputation precedes it though, and it is a regular feature of the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Crtiterium du Dauphine. That race was won this year by current race leader Wiggins for the second consecutive time, sﷺo it shouldn't hold any fears for him.

VIDEO: Watch former yellow jersey holder Chris Boardman's preview of today's stage right here.

Another counter attack has proved short lived. This time it was about 20 riders trying to♕ bridge the gap.

Green je꧒rsey holder Sagan is the best-placed of the leading trio in the overall classific🌄ation. He's in 41st position, over 23 minutes back. Grivko is in 68th place and Lemoine is in 158th.

165km remaining from 194km

That's a pretty scorching opening to ꧒this stage🎀. The riders have already completed 30km in just over half an hour.

🐻And it's now looking like the peloton is breaking 🐟up a bit...

Sagan and Grivko are 25 seconds clear. A large counter attack has formed in behind and have bro🌊ken clear of the main peloton. Just waiting for confirmation of all the names involved.

And we now have seven ri🙈ders at the front. Sagan and Grivko have been caught by Jens Voigt (RadioShack-Nissan), Thomas V🐠oeckler (Europcar), David Millar, David Zabriskie (both Garmin-Sharp) and Sandy Casar (FDJ-BigMat).

Correction - some techincal problems there on the radio. The Lead group is considerably big🐭ger than seven. Those names are all there but there's several ꦦmore too.

158km remaining from 194km

Right, finally had official word from up the road. The⛎re's 25 of them in this break. They are (deep breath):

Scarponi is the highest ranked of these in the GC. He was in 27th place at the start of th💎e stage but was over 10 minutes i🔯n arrears of Wiggins.

A few more facts about the Grande Colombier. It's 17km long, reaches a maxim꧒um height of 1501m and the riders will start their ascent just after they complete 130km...

When the field in the📖 Dauphine took on the Grande Colombier in June, three 🐭of the riders in this group were involved in a breakaway that day: Fofonov, Martinez and Jeandesboz.

140km remaining from 194km

Well we thought i𝔍t was fast and furious, and it is. Average speed for the first hour today has been c🐠onfirmed at 49.8km/h. The fastest of the 2012 Tour so far...

Lots of these riders in 🤪this escape have already featured in breakaways in this Tour. Grivko, Voigt, Arashiro, Morkov, P🧜eraud, Sanchez and Kroon.

And ten of them have previouꦫsly won a stage at the Tour de France: Burghardt, Popovych, Voigt, Sagan, Millar, Zabriskie,♔ Casar, Sanchez, Kroon, and Gerrans.

128km remaining from 194km

The leaders aren'💜t too far from the first climb of the day. There's about 15km from the bottom. It's a category two, so a nice starter for the main course of the day, the Grande Colombier, which comes afterwards. And, speaking of food, the feeding station is waiting for the riders after this first climb.

To the east there's another WorldTour event going on, the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Tour of Poland. It got underway yesterday and one of the big stories was an injury to Dutch rider Niki Terpstra, which might keep him out of the Olympics. 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:You can read about it here.

On a day of historical coincidences, last year's ninth stage from the Tour de France has its own relevance. Sanchez won, Casar was ﷺrunner-up and Voeckler took the yellow jersey despite crashing. He held it right up until the end of stage 19. All three men are in this break today.

115km remaining from 194km

Fra🐎nce is well represented in the break here. Five of riders represent the home nation. Plenty for the local fans to shout about...

The leaders are ascending up the first climb now. Gap is continuing to 🌼increa๊se.

With plenty of mountain🔯 points on offer today, let's have a look at the top 20 in the current KOM standings. Morkov, Voigt and Sagan are all in there:

Sky are conspicuous by their absence in the leading group. They are all surrounding Wiggins back down the road. Cavendish is still there for now, but let's s☂ee where he is after this first climb.

105km remaining from 194km

Conditions🦩 are almost perfect for bike racing today. Temperatures in the early 20s, sunshine and very little 𓂃wind.

The average speed for the second hou♚r was al♌most exactly 10km/h less than the first - 39.6km/h.

RESULTS OF THE COTE DE CORLIER CLIMB:

B▨y my reckoning that puts Morkov🐎 above Wiggins into fifth place in the KOM standings...

Main peloton have just passedꦯ through the feeding station.

Sanchez has stopped to change bikes but doesn't appear to have lost too💖 much time on his fellow escapees.

94km remaining from 194km

We also caught up with former rider Charles Wegelius ahead of the start. Here's what he h✱ad to say about today's stage:

80km remaining from 194km

Chance for Sagan to strengthen his grip on the points standings here, though Goss is his nearest pursuer in the standings and is also in this break. This is the top 20 ahead of this imminent sജprint:

Voeckler has punctured. Arashiro drops back 🎶to help his teammate.

Handin🔥g over to Susan now while I take𒐪 a break...back soon

💞Susan stopping by to see what is going on ... you mean the rest day is ꦍover?

68km remaining from 194km

Just trying to figure out where we are at the moment: looks like the lead group is in the flat section between climbs. Whi𒁏ch means that our first Hors Categorie climb of the race, the Col du Grand Colombier, is rapidly approaching.

But first we will have the day's intermediate sprint, and who but green jersey Peter Sagan is in the break group. L♊oo🥃ks like an outstanding chance for him to pick up some more points.

Sagan and Goss go for the points, and Goss takes them. Hutarovich went with them, and cross𝓀ed the line second, so Sagan ended up only third.

Sagan now has only a ♔27-point lead over Goss in𒁏 the points ranking for the green jersey.

60km remaining from 194km

Lotto Belisol leads 🍰the peloton through the intermediate sprint. No points here for Andre Greipel, but the team wants to make sure Jurgen Van den Broeck keeps his chances for a good finish today.

The first riders of the break group are falling ba🐈ck on t🌳his climb, Sagan and Horrach (Katusha).

This climb is a long one, 17.4km.  The average gradient is only 7.1%, but 🎃it has two sections of๊ 12%.

Some actionꦇ back in the main group? Van Den Broeck moves up and perhaps out.

57km remaining from 194km

Millar is the next to drop ♑back from the lead grou🍷p.

Sky once again firmly in control of the group, ღwith Boasson Hagen leading the way for the𝓰 yellow-clad leader Bradley Wiggins.

The lead group has shattered now.

Sﷺcarponi now leads the way, with Voeckler, Sanchez, amongst others🐷 with him.

W🌠e see Philippe Gilbert at the baꦓck of the peloton.

The five now in the lead are: Scaꦿrponi, Voeckler, Pღeraud, Sanchez and Devenyns.

OK I'm back now. Than🧜ks for holding the fort,✅ Susan.

As expected this climb is really taking its toll

Adn we now have a leading 🔯group of seven riders as they c✅ontinue to ascend.

It's Fofonov aܫnd Casar that h♓ave got back to the leading group.

52km remaining from 194km

Martinez is trying to close on the leading seven. And Caౠsar seems to be the one struggling.

50km remaining from 194km

Vಞoeckler takes his turn 🍷on the front. He's undone his jersey and is sporting a vest underneath...

Lots of shade on offer on this climb. Good job really a༒s the lungs and limbs are bound to be burni♎ng.

Voeckler and Sanchez mak꧒e a bid to get away up front. The other leaders haven't let them get too far away.

Back down the road Sky are surrounding their race leader and shepherdin💖g him up this climb.

They are pretty unchallenge🌳d at the front of the ma⛄in peloton. For now anyway.

Voeckler, Sanchez, Scℱarponi and Devenyns have dropped the other leaders. Theౠy are fast approaching the top of the Colombier.

Van den Broeck (Lotto-Belisol) just attempted to lift♔ the pace at the front of the main peloton. Sky immediately covered the move.

Loads of fans lining this climb. Decision to come here looks 𓄧like a good one from the organisers.

Voeckler pushing - points look his.

And indeed he do🐠es.🔥 The 25 points on offer launch him to the top of the KOM standings.

And for the leaderꦬs, the next big descent begins. Voeckler has taken off.

But the other three have got him wel𒊎l in their sights. Scarponi, don't forget, is one of the best descenders in the peloton.

38km remaining from 194km

Wiggins responds, flanked by 💞two of his teammates. Rivals looking to force Wiggins into taking risks. Will he fall for it?

PUNCTURE: One of Wiggins' wingm🌊en,꧋ Rogers, has punctured...

Nibali atta𝄹cks once more from the main peloton. Scarponi is good coming down hills, but Nibali is even better. Sky's Chris Froome has gone in chase of him.

30km remaining from 194km

Nibali has alrea📖dy reached the stragglers from the original breakawa♋y.

Advantage o⛦f Nibali catching them is that he can use the strengths of his t🍌eammate Sagan...

Final climb is not too far away. It's category 3 and is 'only' 7.2km long. It will feel a lot further after what they've been through on🤡 the Colombier.

Speaking of which♛, here are the official results from the Grande Colo💮mbier climb:

Nibali now has 45 seconds on Wiggins...

E🅷vans and BMC have now come to the front of the Wiggins group. Sky seem to be taking a breather.

Leaders are well on their way up the final climb. Nibali's group have 🃏just started it.

Nibali now on his own here. Real test for him on this final climb. Can he𒊎 stay clear of his GC rivals?

N💛ibali was 2:33 down on Wiggins at the start of today. Richie Porte is back leading Wiggins' group as they try to keep Nibali in check.

Nibali continues to pass the remnant🥃s of the original break. Grivko now riding along🍸side him.

24km remaining from 194km

Gap between Nibali and Wiggins group coming down again. Just over 30 seconds. Nibali will be hoping to extend it o🐬n the descent, if he can make it over the top with a decent lead.

Leading four are almost there at the top of the﷽ climb. Meanwhile Nibali is in danger of being reeled in by Sky...

Is Nibali juไst taking a breather? Will he attack again after the summit? He's now been swa💜llowed up by Wiggins' group and has taken a position just ahead of the race leader.

Looks like Voeckler has taken the mountain points ag🌳ain, up the road. They're over the top and descending now. Gap is almost exactly three minutes to the yellow jersey group.

Yes, Voeckler will definitely take possession of the 💜mountains jersey tonight from Kessiakoff.

ꦿThe remainder of🔥 this stage is virtually all downhill, except for a potentially tricky last kilometre with a gentle incline.

15km remaining from 194km

Teejay Van Garderen (BM🌱C) is trying to get back to the Wiggins group. He's pushing h🤡ard but looks like he's struggling today.

10km remaining from 194km

Voigt has now got onto the tail of the fourꦍ leaders. Out of nowhere. What an effort...

And Van Garderen has almost reached the Wiggins group. He's looking to preserve his 8th place in 🎀th💫e GC.

So now we have a leading group of five. Devenyns has don𒉰e the least amount of work up front thus꧋ far...

Rolland and Van Den Broeck now have 40 seco꧑nds on the yellow jersey group.

6km remaining from 194km

And Voeckler takes over for the umpteenth time. If𝄹 Devenyns has done the least amount of work up front, Voeckler has definitely done the most...

And it looks lik൲e Devenyns has just woken up. He's attacked...

He's quickly gone 40 metres�🎃� clear. Voigt is after him quickly...

2km remaining from 194km

Voeckler is now chasing Voigt𒉰. Has he left it too left? Devenyns looks like he has enou💫gh of a lead up front...

Final kilometre...

An🔴d Voeckler passes Devenyns wiꦛth ease. Voigt too...

Voeckler hanging on up the final incline...

Sanchez up int🗹o second just ahead of Scarponi. Riders treading water...

VOECKLER WINS

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Home crowd delighted at Voeckler's 🔜win. Well deserved after the effort he put in over the course of the entire stage. Voigt put in a superhuman effort to close up on the leading quartet but he didn't qu𒅌ite have enough in the tank to pull off the win.

Voeckler didn't panic there when Devenyns attacked in the final 2km and was countered by Voigt. He♎ kept both men in his sights and his finishing kick just before the final incline was 𒀰enough to hold off the chasers.

Just waitiꦍng for official updateཧs about the state of the GC...

OFFICIAL TOP TEN FINSHERS - STAGE 10

GENERAL CLASSIFICATION AFTER STAGE 10

So a red letter da꧑y for Voeckler and the local crowd as the Frenchman racks up the second home stage win of the 2012 Tour de France.

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