Tour De France 2011

From the Guardian blog> "at the tet-de-la-course, a car pulls alongside Andy Schleck and the head and shoulders of Eddy Merckx, of all people, pop out of the sun-roof to give him a morale-boosting pep-talk."

Awesome

And if anyone is wondering where Sanchez is (for Contador help), he's in a group behind the Evans/Voeckler/Contador group

Voeckler actually looks like the most comfortable in this group, amazing!

schleck in yellow tonight?

Looks like it - whether he'll have enough of a lead to protect in the TT is a different question...

And he still has Rolland with him!

^^^^yeah my man!

the minor time changes- mostly due to variation in gradient that each rider is on-
Schleck put some on when he got to the less steep part.
no?

Voeckler still has Rolland for support

I wonderr how many times Sherwin has mentioned the "heads of state" today

oh look its the mask
vintage reference... excellent

Andy and Evans are both weakening... so gaps remains around 3.07.

No-one is attacking Evans, but they really should.

Contador gone

contrador dropped ??

coming back....

Contador dropped!

getting back on again though

Contador dropped

no, he has blown!

Contador is fighting, but he's off the back of the group

gone.

Contador out the back

All over for him!
woooopie!!

No, Contador is gone... all over

Massive gap for Contador now

Voeckler still there, easily!