The peleton took a break from racing ahead of tomorrows crucial stage to Mount Ventoux, allowing a large breakaway group to go over 7 minutes clear up the road in what proved a completely uneventful stage. The winner on the day wast little known Italian Matteo Trentin, who recorded his first ever win as a professional (well done son!) and made it back-to-back wins for Omega-Pharma, ending a 3-year drought for Italian riders at Le Tour.
The win looked like it would go to unheralded Frenchman Julian Simon, who looked all-over the winner after riding away from the breakaway group with 10km to go. After building a 25 second league, he was sadly run down in the final kilometre, leaving 7 or so riders to fight for the winner. Trentin proved too powerful as his late surge overpowered Orica Green-Egde's Michael Albasini. Promising American Andrew Talansky filled the podium in third.
Other than that there was not much too the stage, with none of the classification standing changes ahead of tomorrow's race to the moon. Let's hope it's an absolute epic.
Yellow Jersey - Chris Froome
Green Jersey - Peter Sagan
Polka Dot Jersey - Pierre Rolland
White Jersey - Michal Kwiatowski
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