Today’s stage was a rolling one, it wasn’t the big mountains but the sprinters were not going to have a chance either. This was the moment for a a guy hours down on GC to head up the road with a peloton behind that paid him no interest and he won by big minutes but didn’t threaten the overall at all. In the end that is generally what happened. It was two men, and then a few more in behind them, and the stage was taken by Marcus Burghardt ahead of his longterm partner for the day Carlos Barredo. A group of three lead by Romain Feillu, who wore the yellow jersey earlier in the tour, came in 3′33 down and the peloton including all the big names at 6′50.

One of the big favourites about Ten days ago was Damiano Cunego. He fell out of contention in the high mountains and today he fell completely. A crash needed medical treatment and surrounded by his Lampre team he had to ride the majority of the stage behind the main field coming in 20′12 behind the stage winners. It dropped him back to 20th overall, in a Tour he will quickly want to forget.

That was all of the action really as most people used today and likely the coming days to recover their legs after the big Alpine mountains before the Time-Trial on Saturday.

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