Well what about that? On today’s first of the Alpine mountain stages we had two races on the go. One involving the four men at the head of the race, so far up the road that long before the final climb we knew they would hang on for the win. None of them were overall threats and so were allowed to fight it out between themselves. Remember this was a stage the sprinters teams were never going to even attempt to close down. But while that was going on, minutes down the road and onto the final climb the Tour de France was taking shape, or in many ways, losing shape. MORE »