{{#sender.isSelf}} The gap is very small between the chasers and the pack. Quintana and Valverde crest the summit 2:17 down on the lone leader, with Nibali and Froome just five seconds back.Nibali has a dig and edges clear of the Sky pair... but Froome closes the gap. Bardet and Contador are there, and Nibali a bit further back.No reaction from Sky as Quintana catches and passes Jose Serpa of Lampre-Merida.

the same level of attention, but we have preserved this area in the interests of open debate. Barguil was in the top ten until fading in the last few days. Neben Val-dIsère, Tignes, Courchevel, La Plagne und Les Arcs ist LAlpe dHuez einer der großen Wintersportorte der französischen Nordalpen. They have a gap over the chasing Sky trio. L'Alpe-d'Huez a été 29 fois ville étape du Tour (1 étape en circuit en 1979 et 1 montée contre-la-montre en 2004). Tour de France – Follow this cycling race live with Eurosport. Dazu erhielt der Führende jeder dieser Wertungen auf einer Etappe (mit Ausnahme der ersten Etappe, auf der es noch keine Führenden geben kann) ein tägliches Preisgeld von 350 € bzw. Das größte Kontingent stellte traditionell das Heimatland der Tour. They are tackling it from the opposite side as yesterday meaning once they pass the turning to La Toussuire they will be riding up the road they descended yesterday - the one where Nibali led Rolland down, and Bardet had a mechanical issue with his derailleur.Team Sky have come to the front to control the tempo. Valverde is clearly tiring and Quintana is already looking over his shoulders.Alexandre Geniez goes over the top to take 25 KOM points for FDJ.Porte is doing a brilliant job for Froome, reducing the yellow jersey group to just five riders: the two Sky men, plus Contador, Nibali and Pinot.Quintana has joined Valverde and the two Movistar riders have a small gap.Porte leads the chase for Froome, but Roche has blown.


The climbs were categorised as fourth-, third-, second-, first-category and The final individual classification was the young rider classification. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when !It';s still a Sky team time trial with Porte and Poels burying themselves for Froome. The previous five were: 1954, in Amsterdam; 1973, in Scheveningen; 1978, in Leiden; 1996, in 's-Hertogenbosch; and 2010, in Rotterdam. He has one minute over Froome. Während der Tour wurden Preisgelder in Höhe von 2.030.150 € ausgeschüttet. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Jeweils drei Etappensiege konnten Etixx-Quick Step und das BMC-Team verbuchen. Younger brother Andy famously won on the Galibier in 2011 - and was first over the summit one day later en route to Alpe d'Huez - before injury forced him to retire early from the sport.Geniez has gone over the brow and is on the next section of the descent. Et, à chaque fois, a joué son rôle d'étape décisive dans la course à la victoire finale. Alpe d'Huez day of tour de France 2015 This video was taken on the day Thibaut Pinot soloed his way to victory atop l’Alpe d’Huez @stage 20 at the Tour de France. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. The day's Stage thirteen saw the escapees being brought inside the one kilometer to go marker (known as the Stage seventeen, the first of four Alpine stages, saw third placed overall Van Garderen withdraw from the race with illness.The final stage in Paris was won by Greipel, his fourth victory of this year's Tour.There were four main individual classifications contested in the 2015 Tour de France, as well as a team competition. It allows our most engaged readers to debate the big issues, share their own experiences, discuss He has 1:30 on the yellow jersey, and one minute on Quintana and Anacona.This is a lot of fun but it's borderline crazy - so many people and flags and flares... the riders will relish the barrier section.Crazy scenes at Dutch Corner - there's no space for any attacks whatsoever. Zudem waren drei Österreicher am Start. Tour de France – Follow this cycling race live with Eurosport. There's a maximum of 50 still left up for grabs today.Here's a video of that earlier attack by Quintana...So the top four of the race have come together at the start of this descent.

Modane - Alpe d'Huez Tour de France - 25 juillet 2015. Approaching it via the Romanche valley, having left behind first Grenoble and then Vizille, the main D1091 road emerges from a deep gorge carved by the river and turns south into a wide and flat-bottomed valley along which the wind often barrels, draining the resources of any solo escaper from the peloton, even before they have reached the mythic test that lies ahead.The road arrows into Bourg d’Oisans, a small town of tightly packed, steeply roofed houses that’s home to just 3,000 inhabitants, but is the largest on the road between Vizille, 35km to the west, and Briançon, 70km to the east.Looming over the town, the immense Signal de Prégentil rockface, its striations meandering in mesmeric fashion, indicates the uphill finale is imminent. The holders of the classifications benefited on each stage they led; the final winners of the points and mountains were given €25,000, while the best young rider and most combative rider got €20,000. There are riders from Cofidis and Lotto-Soudal there too.They're off! Team prizes were available, with €10,000 for the winner of team time trial and €50,000 for the winners of the team classification. Quintana attacks before the first bend - or 21st bend, depending on how you look at it.Plat du jour: Anyone who negotiates all those dizzying hairpin bends and frantic fans to complete the final test of the Tour de France deserves a hearty Raclette - a circle of semi-firm cow's cheese which is melted on a stove and scraped off onto a plate of potatoes and mixed charcuterie.Nibali has three Astana team-mates with him - but this will dent his chances of taking Valverde's place on the podium.Puncture for Nibali!