Tour de France Stage 19: Bourg d’Oisans > Le Grand-Bornand, 204.5km
The peloton starts the ascent to the Col du Glandon, in nonchalent pursuit of a very big escape...
Ryder Hesjedal and Jon Izagirre have moved ahead of the big escape and made a smaller one for themselves...
Laurent Ddier leads the chasing escapers, but the group is too big and not organised very well...
Jerome Coppel and Dani Navarro lead Cofidis in this move, another French team wants a stage-win today..!
Le Tour de France 2013 - Stage Nineteen
The peloton crests the summit of the picturesque Glandon, about five-minutes down on the escapers...
Svein Tuft has fallen on the tricky descent - he's hurt but gets up and finishes the stage...
Team Sky leads the chase along the valley towards the Col de la Madeleine...
Kristjian Koren and Cameron Meyer have started a counter-attack on the Madeleine...
Robert Gesink reacts as well, can the Dutchman salvage a very ordinary Tour for himself..?
Hesjedal is climbing the Madeleine by himself, about one-minute ahead of the other escapers...
Pierre Rolland has jumped across and joined Hesjedal just before the summit of the Madeleine...
What's going on here - Mark Cavendish has attacked on the Madeleine with Michal Kwiatowski, it doesn't look like a joke, but...
Geraint Thomas isn't laughing at Cavendish either, but he'll soon catch his British friend...
Chria Froome leads the peloton towards the summit of the Madeleine under cloudier skies and with a seven-minute deficit...
Cadel Evans descends many minutes later with Stuart O'Grady - both men will lose about 25-minutes today..!
The pace is hotting up behind Rolland and Hesjedal on the Col de Tamie...
Rolland is alone now as he starts the descent towards the two final climbs...
Nicholas Roche leads a Saxo-Tinkoff show of strength - Sky can take it easy as their rivals start to work instead...
Froome looks more than a little strained behind Saxo's pace-setting...
Rolland is still out in front, but his face is starting to look pained as well...
Radio Shack start to chase at the front of the peloton - there's a team classification to be won today and tomorrow..!
And yes, Chris Froome really is feeling the strain now...
Alberto Contador is having a tough day as well - not helped by the pouring rain...
About nine-minutes back, Alejandro Valverde attacks - his Movistar team are in with a chance at the team prize too..!
John Gadret has joined Valverde - the pair will finish just ahead of the Froome/Contador group today...
There's a scramble by Mollema, Kreuziger and Monfort to stay with the favourites over the summit of the Croix-Fry...
Le Tour de France 2013 - Stage Nineteen
Alberto Rui Costa celebrates his second stage-win in this Tour de France..
