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13:09 CEST
Yesterday's stage had a big pile-up on the closing circuit which caused an interesting situation: most of the favourites were held up except for Levi Leipheimer (Astana). He made a small group which avoided the carnage, but being the good gentleman he is, he did not work to try and use the crash to take time on his opponents.

13:12 CEST
The day was up and down for the Garmin team who lost Christian Vande Velde in a crash early in the stage. But then, the team's young sprinter Tyler Farrar took second in the bunch sprint behind Alessandro Petacchi. Interesting note: he broke his rear derailleur in the crash and had to sprint stuck in one gear! Not bad!

13:57 CEST 30km/132km to go
Finally, Jens Voigt. What can we say about the man which hasn't already been said? He comes to Grand Tours "so he can rest" - which may seem counter-intuitive, but he's got 5 kids at home...

The Voigt machine has helped to pull the break out to 4:50 at the moment.

14:40 CEST
Speaking of Vande Velde, he gave his impressions of the Giro d'Italia vs. the Tour de France in a recent feature for CN.

"There are days where you go through a town and you might be going easy or you might be going hard and than all of a sudden you have random people like Bettini sprint to the front. You wonder, 'What's going on?' and then everybody slams on their brakes.

"Suddenly you have people passing out pastries, cookies and ice cream and everyone grabs as much as they can and start stuffing their faces. Then they jump back on the bike and keep on riding. That's just weird and crazy to me [laughs]. We get back on the bike and everyone acts like that's a normal thing and you go on with the rest of the race."

16:05 CEST
A familiar sight at the front of the peloton is Chris Horner's bony chest. He's got his jersey zipped wide open, and is unafraid to bare his pasty Irish skin for the world to see.