Tour de London

[Greg_Dyke]

57k left...Halgand and Vasseur look like being lined up as eventual winners...2 small climbs to end the stage with

[Greg_Dyke]

The gap reamins at 11 mins, with 44k to go.....

[Greg_Dyke]

5 riders now clear....with 20k left

 

Voigt is 30 seconds clear of group Burghardt with 20km remaining. More to the point, there are three Frenchman in that first pack of five. They are Halgand, Vasseur and Casar.

 

Hopes must be high in Marseille of a French win.

[Greg_Dyke]

16k to go...

 

The group of 5 are 11m 20 secs ahead of the peleton....

[Greg_Dyke]

14k to go..the winnwe will come from

 

Jens Voigt (German), who has previously won stages in 98 and 2001

 

Patrice Halgand (France), won a stage in 2002

 

Cedric Vasseur (France), won a stage in 1997

 

Michael Albasini (Swiss) and Sandy Casar (France), have yet to win a stage...

 

 

[Greg_Dyke]

Time in the wind over the last 10 mins...

 

Voigt - 30% of the time in the wind

Albasini - 29%

Halgand - 22%

Casar - 10%

Vasseur - 9%

 

7k to go....

[Greg_Dyke]

5k to go, 12 mins the gap to the Peleton....not enough to dent the top 20 for any of these riders.....but points are at stake !

[Greg_Dyke]

Voigt attacks 4k out....!!

 

[Greg_Dyke]

Vasseur has beaten Casar by about 3-5cm.

 

 

It is his first stage win since stage five of the 1997 Tour de France

 

The top five in the 10th stage are:

1. Cedric Vasseur (QSI) 229.5km in 5h20’24" (42.977km/h)

2. Sandy Casar (FDJ)

3. Michael Albasini (LIQ)

4. Patrice Halgand (C.A)

5. Jens Voigt (CSC)

 

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

Good work Sir Dyke, I had meetings all day and am very impressed.

 

Now any news of the beach volleyball from Berlin or has that ended now?

[Greg_Dyke]

[Greg_Dyke]

Top 12 individual standings....

 

1. RASMUSSEN 49h 23' 48"

2. VALVERDE + 02' 35"

3. MAYO + 02' 39"

4. EVANS + 02' 41"

5. CONTADOR + 03' 08"

6. MOREAU + 03' 18"

7. SASTRE + 03' 39"

8. KLÖDEN + 03' 50"

9. LEIPHEIMER + 03' 53"

10. KIRCHEN + 05' 06"

11. ASTARLOZA + 05' 20"

12. KASHECHKIN + 05' 34"

 

[Greg_Dyke]

Points

 

1. BOONEN 160 pts

2. ZABEL 144 pts

3. HUNTER 114 pts

4. HUSHOVD 110 pts

5. CHAVANEL 108 pts

6. FÖRSTER 78 pts

7. STEEGMANS 68 pts

8. CANCELLARA 63 pts

9. VENTOSO 59 pts

10. BURGHARDT 58 pts

 

[Greg_Dyke]

King of the Mountains

 

1. RASMUSSEN 98 pts

2. SOLER HERNANDEZ 79 pts

3. POPOVYCH 70 pts

4. ASTARLOZA 51 pts

5. LEFEVRE 50 pts

6. EVANS 46 pts

7. MOREAU 43 pts

8. CHAVANEL 42 pts

9. CONTADOR 42 pts

10. VALVERDE 33 pts

 

 

David Millar is 28th, with 14 points...

[Greg_Dyke]

Brits

 

76. WEGELIUS + 56' 45"

101. MILLAR + 1h 10' 07"

151. WIGGINS + 1h 34' 23"

165. GERAINT + 1h 40' 34"

[Greg_Dyke]

Marseille-Montpellier today.....

 

An extremely flat stage, running along the coast of the Mediterrean...

 

 

very few non climbers in the overall top 5 to worry Rasmussen though

 

 

 

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

12:00 - 171 riders are in the neutral zone before the 182.5km 11th stage of the 2007 Tour. Will a breakaway survive or will the sprinters' teams chase it down on the flat terrain?

 

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

180km - Freddy Bichot (Agritubel) and Stephane Auge (Cofidis) launch an early attack but they are swiftly absorbed.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

176km - A group of 28 have launched an attack, no surprise that Jens Voigt and Juan Antonio Flecha are involved.

[NotTheRealSteveWest]

165km - Voigt along with Arroyo, Haussler, Fedrigo, Chavanel, Nuyens, Bennati, Vaugrenard and Siutsou have a 1:20 lead over the peloton. The remaining 19 members of the intial escape are sandwiched in between.