Tour de France Stage 18: Blagnac > Brive-le-Gaillarde, 222.5kms
Happy days - a British fan gets a most prized autograph from Bradley Wiggins in Blagnac...
Happy days - an A380 Airbus and French air-force jets take off from Blagnac-Toulouse to salute the Tour de France...
An official car has gone the wrong way in Blagnac, maybe the driver was watching the planes too closely..?!
Yaroslav Popovych leads an escape that's been let go after a fast first hour...
Jani Brajkovic has crashed into a field, but he's not too badly injured...
Edvald Boasson Hagen leads the escape to a three-minute lead - is this another successful Sky move..?
Cavendish is right at the back of the speeding peloton - have his ambitions been compromised by Boasson Hagen being in the escape..?
The peloton passes sunflowers on its northern route towards Brive...
BMC is doing most of the chasing, the lead is down to about two minutes now...
Thomas Voeckler is on display at the back of the peloton - dig those shorts..!
Tyler Farrar gets his personal Gendarme escort after a crash caused by a stray dog...
Greg Henderson's got his smile back on today - the Kiwi is two days short of finishing his first-ever Tour after a few dodgy days...
Saur-Sojasun and Omega are still doing the chasing, watched closely by Sky...
Stuart O'Grady loads up with bottles for Green Edge, but in a few days time it'll be beers instead of water..!
Voeckler is on his second can of Coca-Cola in as many minutes, and he's still on display at the back of the peloton...
The peloton crosses the Dordogne river at Souhillac, about 45-kilometres from the finish...
Rabobank join the chase, led by Steven Kruiswijk...
Popovych and Millar are pushing on at the head of the escape, but their lead is down to less than a minute now...
Team Sky seems to be pacing Bradley Wiggins when in fact they're chasing for Mark Cavendish...
Vinokourov, Paolini and Hansen have survived as far as the last climb, but their liberty is at grave peril now...
Mark Cavendish takes a stunning victory in Brive with a sprint that must bode well for the Champs Elysees and the Olymic Games...
Bradley Wiggins reflects on the last real road-stage of this Tour, his lead certain to widen in tomorrow's long TT...
