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Tuesday, July 9: Stage 10, St Gildas des Bois - St Malo, 197 km

Rated Ascent:

• Km 142.0: Côte de Dinan, 1 km @ 4.2% gradient, Category 4

Weather: At the finish in St. Malo at 12:05 PM local time it is 21C (70F), partly cloudy. The temperature is forecast to rise to 24C (75F) and sunny. The wind is from the north-northeast at 18 kph (10 mph) and could go to 26 kph (16 mph). Humidity is 73%.

The Race: 182 riders started today. Following the usual pattern this year, the day's break (Julien Simon, Lieuwe Westra, Jerome Cousin, Luis Angel Mate and Juan José Oroz) went away in the opening kilometers. The gap was allowed to grow to about five and a half minutes, but the sprinters had no intention of letting this stage get away from them and with 120 km to go the gap was down to four minutes.

The lead-in to the intermediate sprint (about 70 km to go) shrank the gap to a little over two minutes. Omega Pharma and Lotto-Belisol performed the duties of policing the peloton and keeping the break's lead under control.

The riders had a headwind for much of the stage but with a turn to the west at the coastline (about 24 km to go) they had a sidewind. The gap to the break was down to 40 seconds. Sky and Saxo-Tinkoff worked the front to keep their GC riders out of trouble.

After more than 191 km of the front the break was finally caught with slightly less that six km to go, setting things up for a big sprint.

It was a drag race between André Greipel and Marcel Kittel with Kittel taking a close win. It looked like Mark Cavendish gave a hard bump to Tom Veelers, causing Veelers to go down. Despite how bad the bump looked on TV, after review, the judges decided to let Cavendish keep his third place in the sprint.

Christopher Froome successfully defended his Yellow Jersey.

Results:

1. Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) 4hr 53min 25sec. 40.28 km/hr
2. André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
3. Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
4. Peter Sagan (Cannondale) s.t.
5. William Bonnet (FDJ) s.t.
6. Alexander Kristoff (Katusha) s.t.
7. Samuel Dumoulin (Ag2r) s.t.
8. Kevin Reza (Europcar) s.t.
9. Danny van Poppel (Vacansoleil) s.t.
10. José Joaquin Rojas (Movistar) s.t.
11. Matthew Harley Goss (Orica-GreenEdge) s.t.
12. Gregory henderson (Lotto-Belisol) s.t.
13. Yohann Gene (Europcar) s.t.
14. Cyril Lemoine (Sojasun) s.t.
15. Juan Antonio Flecha (Vacansoleil) s.t.
16. Julien El Fares (Sojasun) s.t.
17. Roberto Ferrari (Lampre-Merida) s.t.
18. Egoitz Garcia (Cofidis) s.t.
19. Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) s.t.
20. Arnold Jeannesson (FDJ) s.t.
21. Cadel Evans (BMC) s.t.
22. Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil) s.t.
23. Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
24. Christopher Froome (Sky) s.t.
25. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) s.t.
26. Ian Stannard (Sky) s.t.
27. Edvald Boasson Hagen (Sky) s.t.
28. Roman Kreuziger (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
29. Juan José Lobato (Euskaltel) s.t.
30. Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) s.t.
31. Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
32. Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel) s.t.
33. Jean-Christophe Péraud (Ag2r) s.t.
34. Ramunas Navadauskas (Garmin-Sharp) s.t.
35. Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
36. Ruben Perez (Euskaltel) s.t.
37. Laurens Ten Dam (Belkin) s.t.
38. Jack Bauer (Garmin-Sharp) s.t.
39. Bauke Mollema (Belkin) s.t.
40. Francesco Gavazzi (Astana) s.t.
41. Fabio Sabatini (Cannondale) s.t.
42. Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) s.t.
43. Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) s.t.
44. Rui Alberto Costa (Movistar) s.t.
45. Sergey Lagutin (Vacansoleil)s.t.
46. Lars Boom (Belkin) s.t.
47. Niaro Alexander Quintana (Movistar) s.t.
48. Romain Bardet (Ag2r) s.t.
49. Gert Steegmans (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) s.t.
50. Davide Malacarne (Europcar) s.t.

General Classification:  1710.5 km raced so far at an average speed of 40.84 km/hr

1. Christopher Froome (Sky) 41hr 52min 43sec
2. Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) @ 1min 25sec
3. Bauke Mollema (Belkin) @ 1min 44sec
4. Laurens Ten Dam (Belkin) @ 1min 50sec
5. Roman Kreuziger (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 1min 51sec
6. Alberto Contador (Saxo-Tinkoff) s.t.
7. Nairo Alexander Quintana (Movistar) @ 2min 2sec
8. Daniel Martin (Garmin-Sharp) @ 2min 28sec
9. Joaquin Rodriguez (Katusha) @ 2min 31sec
10. Rui Alberto Costa (Movistar) @ 2min 45sec
11. Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel) @ 2min 55sec
12. Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) @ 3min 7sec
13. Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) @ 3min 25sec
14. Jean-Christophe Péraud (Ag2r) @ 3min 29sec
15. Andy Schleck (Radio Shack) @ 4min 0sec
16. Cadel Evans (BMC) @ 4min 36sec
17. Michael Rogers (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 6min 14sec
18. Daniel Moreno (Katusha) @ 6min 16sec
19. Igor Anton (Euskaltel) @ 6min 40sec
20. Romain Bardet (Ag2r) @ 7min 9sec
21. Maxime Monfort (Radio Shack) @ 7min 55sec
22. Wouter Poels (Vacansoleil) @ 9min 45sec
23. José Serpa (Lampre-Merida) @ 9min 54sec
24. Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) @ 10min 30sec
25. Andrew Talansky (Garmin-Sharp) @ 11min 15sec
26. Pierre Rolland (Europcar) @ 12min 34sec
27. Davide Malacarne (Europcar) 2 14min 27sec
28. Sylvain Chavanel (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) @ 14min3 5sec
29. Jan Bakelants (Radio Shack) @ 15min 52sec
30. Steve Morabito (BMC) @ 17min 14sec
31. John Gadret (Ag2r) @ 18min 7sec
32. Robert Gesink (Belkin) @ 18min 35sec
33. Eduard Vorganov (Katusha) @ 19min 58sec
34. Richie porte (Sky) @ 20min 10sec
35. Przemyslaw Niemiec (Lampre-Merida) @ 20min 37sec
36. Maxime Mederel (Sojasun) 2 20min 57sec
37. Mikel Astarloza (Euskatlel) @ 21min 11sec
38. Damiano Cunego (Lampre-Merida) @ 22min 30sec
39. Haimar Zubeldia (Radio shack) @ 25mn53sec
40. Ruben Plaza (Movistar) @ 26mn 2sec
41. Ryder Hesjedal (Garmin-Sharp) @ 27min 48sec
42. Andrey Amador (Movistar) @ 30min 35sec
43. Andreas Klöden (Radio Shack) @ 30min 43sec
44. Arnold Jeannesson (FDJ) @ 31min 34sec
45. Daryl Impey (Orica-GreenEdge) @ 31min 41sec
46. Cyril Gautier (Europcar) @ 31min 41sec
47. Nicolas Roche (Saxo-Tinkoff) @ 31min 50sec
48. Hubert Dupont (Ag2r) @ 32min 9sec
49. Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) @ 33min 11sec
50. Tejay Van Garderen (BMC) @ 35min 1sec

Climber:

1. Pierre Rolland (Europcar): 49 points
2. Christopher Froome (Sky): 33
3. Richie Porte (Sky): 28
4. Nairo Alexander Quintana (Movistar): 26
5. Mikel Nieve (Euskaltel): 21

Points:

1. Peter Sagan (Cannondale): 269 points
2. André Greipel (Lotto-Belisol): 186
3. Mark Cavendish (Omega Pharma-Quick Step): 166
4. Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano): 132
5. Alexander Kristoff (Katusha): 131

Young Rider:

1. Nairo Alexander Quintana (Movistar) 41hr 54min 45sec
2. Michal Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma-Quick Step) @ 1min 23sec
3. Tom Dumoulin (Argos-Shimano) @ 42min 37sec

Team Classification:

1. Movistar: 124hr 51min 44sec
2. Saxo-Tinkoff @ 4min 11sec
3. Belkin @ 5min22sec
4. Ag2r @ 8min 7sec
5. Radio Shack @ 14min 7sec

Stage 10 map

Stage 10 profile

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Photos from Stage 10:

Chris Froome at the start of the stage

Peter Sagan

Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana

Alberto Contador

Christophe Riblon

Yukiya Arashiro

Johnny Hoogerland

Tony Martin

Marcel Kittel

Alan Marangoni

Mark Cavendish

Along the Brittany coast the speeds were high and the pack was lined out.

The stage ended as a race between the two big Germans, André Greipel (left) and winner Marcel Kittel.

Cavendish ran out of lead-out team before he ran out of stage.

Stage winner Marcel Kittel

Chris Froome stayed out of trouble today.