David Millar is leading a 20-man escape towards the Col de Portet d'Aspet...
Xavier Zandio is leading the escape up the Col de Portet d'Aspet with a seven minute lead...
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Europcar is hard at work, they face a real challenge near the end of the day...
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Tom Danielson gets some agile mechanical work on his bike after the Portet d'Aspet descent...
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Millar has split the escape on the Col de La Trappe - but he'll soon get dropped himself...
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Jens Voigt is chasing Millar down...
Stuart O'Grady is leading Leopard-Trek up the La Trappe - there's a plot being hatched somewhere...
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Voigt has crashed on the next descent, spoiling but not ruining Leopard's plans...
The peloton climbs the pretty Col de Agnes, still five-minutes down on the escape...
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Thomas Voeckler looks relaxed under the pressure he's about to face...
Laurens Ten Dam is anything but realxed - he's broken his nose in a nasty fall off the Agnes climb...
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Mark Cavendish descends almost 20-minutes later - he'll end the stage nearly 27-minutes down but still wearing the Green jersey...
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Sandy Casar is the only one still in front halfway up the climb to Plateau de Beille...
Carlos Barredo attacks while Sammy Sanchez bluffs on his behalf...
Danielson leads the chase of Barredo and Casar...
Frank Schleck makes his first move of the day, but then eases up...
Jelle Vanendert makes a bigger attack - and he'll go on to win the stage..!
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Andy Schleck sets some order in the group of overall favourites...
Ivan Basso makes an attack, but he cannot stay away from Voeckler and Evans...
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Sanchez makes a move now, taking Schleck with him for a while...
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Cadel Evans is the one chasing Sanchez - the rest can barely follow..!
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Sanchez is on the attack in the last two-kilometres - he'll make an important time gain of 25-seconds over his rivals on G.C...
Evans counters Sanchez, but he is chased down by Basso and Schleck...
Alberto Contador is at the back of the Schleck-Basso-Evans group, the Spaniard is just not himself in this Tour..!
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Danielson will lose time today but get back his 9th place overall...
Thomas Voeckler's smile says it all - I'm still here and still in Yellow..!