Tour de France 2010 Photos; Stage 9: Morzine - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
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Cadel Evans and Lance Armstrong possibly talking about the stage 8 crashes that helped eliminate Lance Armstrong from the GC battle on Sunday and Cadel Evans today. (It was reported post-race today that Cadel Evans suffered a fractured elbow in the first crash on stage 8) | share this photo |
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Scabby Lance Armstrong was still stiff after street luging without a luge on stage 8 | share this photo |
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The peloton passing over a river in Flumet at km 80 near the base of the cat 1 Col des Saisies | share this photo |
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The main break climbing Col des Saisies | share this photo |
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Who is "JA" or is it simply Dutch for Yes. | share this photo |
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Eventual stage winner, Sandy Casar, leading Jens Voigt and Luis Leon Sanchez and the rest of the break down Col des Saisies | share this photo |
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Fans camping out on the final climb of the day, the 26 km 6.2% Col de la Madeleine at km 172 which has rarely been used so close to a finishing town | share this photo |
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The four remaining riders in the break (Sandy Casar is obscured) blocking out everything | share this photo |
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Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), Damiano Cunego (Lampre), Sandy Casar (FDJ), Anthony Charteau (Bbox) were first over the top of Col de la Madeleine before the 20 km descent and 10 km run to the finish in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne | share this photo |
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Andy Schleck shattered the group of GC contenders up Col de la Madeleine and only Alberto Contador was able to follow him | share this photo |
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Andy Schleck and Alberto Contador took turns stretching out the lead on their rivals. By the way, those are the names of 250 of Andy's fans on his bike. | share this photo |
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Contador and Schleck went over 2:10 back and would catch the lead group on the flats who were soft pedaling before the sprint | share this photo |
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Sammy Sanchez went over 40 seconds back of Schleck and Contador. He pulled back 30 seconds on the descent but lost more time on the flat 10 km run to the finish | share this photo |
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The Yellow Jersey, Cadel Evans, in trouble well back of the GC contenders | share this photo |
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FDJ's Sandy Casar won the corner bunch sprint in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. "Why they have never finished in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne before, I will never know" — Phil Liggett. | share this photo |
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The Frenchman judged the corner sprint better than the Spaniard Luis Leon Sanchez (2nd) and the Italian Damiano Cunego (3rd) | share this photo |
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Cadel Evans lost eight minutes today crossing 42nd and slipped out of the Yellow Jersey (and the top 10) | share this photo |
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The distraught erstwhile race leader is consoled by BMC teammate Mauro Santambrogio post race | share this photo |
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FDJ's Sandy Casar has finished second enough to learn from his mistakes. This is the second Tour stage win for the 31 year old Frenchman | share this photo |
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The Young Rider leader, Saxo Bank's Andy Schleck, dons the color he really wanted | share this photo |
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He won the first mountain stage, scattered the GC contenders today and now has the White and Yellow Jerseys. Bobby Julich is right. Andy Schleck is a "cold blooded killer." | share this photo |
Tour de France 2010 Photos; Stage 9: Morzine - Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne |
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