Mâcon / Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (121 miles)
Le. Tour. De. France.
So can Cadel Evans come back? If he does it will be on stages like today’s. It starts flat enough, but has category 3, 2, and un-categorized climbs. The Award point is at the end of the decent from the initial category 2 and just before the uncategorized ascent. Evans could show climbing chops, Wiggins could show weakness, there could be a bus.
Today and tomorrow are the best days short term to create some kind of climbing get away and keep in mind that Evans doesn’t just have to erase his 1:43 deficit, but also a build lead of about 2:00 o he doesn’t get crushed in the 19th stage.
I’m getting overflow errors in my larger consolidated General Classification and Points tables and I haven’t quite solved that problem yet. Here are the top contenders starting out today-
General Classifiction
| Place | Rider | Team | Time/Delta |
| 1 | WIGGINS Bradley | SKY PROCYCLING | 39:09:20 |
| 2 | EVANS Cadel | BMC RACING TEAM | +01:53 |
| 3 | FROOME Christopher | SKY PROCYCLING | +02:07 |
| 4 | NIBALI Vincenzo | LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE | +02:23 |
| 5 | MENCHOV Denis | KATUSHA TEAM | +03:02 |
| 6 | ZUBELDIA Haimar | RADIOSHACK-NISSAN | +03:19 |
| 7 | MONFORT Maxime | RADIOSHACK-NISSAN | +04:23 |
| 8 | VAN GARDEREN Tejay | BMC RACING TEAM | +05:14 |
| 9 | VAN DEN BROECK Jurgen | LOTTO-BELISOL TEAM | +05:20 |
| 10 | ROCHE Nicolas | AG2R LA MONDIALE | +05:29 |
| 11 | COSTA Rui Alberto | MOVISTAR TEAM | 3+05:46 |
| 12 | TAARAMAE Rein | COFIDIS LE CREDIT EN LIGNE | +05:56 |
| 13 | GALLOPIN Tony | RADIOSHACK-NISSAN | +05:59 |
Points
| Place | Rider | Team | Points |
| 1 | SAGAN Peter | LIQUIGAS-CANNONDALE | 217 |
| 2 | GOSS Matthew Harley | ORICA GREENEDGE | 185 |
| 3 | GREIPEL André | LOTTO-BELISOL TEAM | 172 |
| 4 | CAVENDISH Mark | SKY PROCYCLING | 129 |
| 5 | PETACCHI Alessandro | LAMPRE – ISD | 109 |
| 6 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald | SKY PROCYCLING | 95 |
| 7 | CANCELLARA Fabian | RADIOSHACK-NISSAN | 89 |
| 8 | EVANS Cadel | BMC RACING TEAM | 82 |
| 9 | WIGGINS Bradley | SKY PROCYCLING | 78 |
| 10 | VEELERS Tom | TEAM ARGOS-SHIMANO | 76 |
Team, Hill Climbing, and Youth in yesterday’s piece.
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Sites of Interest-
- 2012 Le Tour
- Mâcon / Bellegarde-sur-Valserine (121 miles)
- Wikipedia
- Geek Guide (very basic)
- Guardian Interactive Guide
The Stars Hollow Gazette Tags-
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