Tour de France: Stage 11 Blaye-les-Mines > Lavaur

Lars Boom is in the day's 6-man escape that hopes to stay away all the way to the end...

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Jimmy Engoulvent is helping push the gap up to five minutes on roads too wet for the peloton to chase on...

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Joost Posthuma signals another day in paradise for the Tour de France...

Jonny Hoogerland's idea of paradise has yet to be discovered...

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Frank Schleck has his thoughts on tomorrow's first mountain stage - he's in 4th overall and possibly Leopard-Trek's secret leader...

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Andreas Kloden is also thinking on tomorrow's mountains - the Radio Shack leader is in 8th place overall...

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The peloton races through an alleyway of plane trees in the Tarn region...

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Mark Cavendish changes a wheel, with little sign of stress at the chase to get back...

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Engoulvent is still leading the escape at the halfway mark - but their lead is down to about four minutes now...

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Ryder Hesjedal starts the serious chasing for Team Garmin-Cervelo....

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Sebastian Lang does his share of the chasing for Omega Pharma-Lotto...

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Even Tejay Van Garderen has to chase for HTC, despite needing to save himself for the mountains tomorrow...

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There are sunflowers galore in the Tarn, even if they are wet and drooping...

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The Tarn has its own, special, kind of Tour de France fans...

The sprint is on into Lavaur, but the sprint is only for second-place it seems...

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Mark Cavendish wins stage eleven, ahead of Andre Greipel and Tyler Farrar...

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Simon Gerrans' face reflects the nervousness of today's stage in the rain...

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Fabian Cancellara's face reflects the toughness of the first eleven days - and the mountains are still to come..!

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Mark Cavendish is now the Green Jersey points leader - can he pull off a dream and wear it all the way to Paris..?

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Thomas Voeckler heads into the Pyrenees as race-leader - but for how much longer..?

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