Tour, Stage 11: Sprinting for Yellow

At the end of the day, it was Geraint Thomas (Sky) who had the legs to ride everyone off of his wheel.  Perhaps Chris Froome (Sky) let his teammate go, but Thomas was able to get around his former teammate, Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton-Scott) and ride on to take the stage and the Maillot Jaune.  Behind, Froome and Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) came to the line together.  Dumoulin got a little cheeky and jumped Froome with a 10 meter sprint for second place.  While it was more a bit of a subversive dig, it did give him two bonus seconds over Froome.  So it was only Dumoulin who was able to put any time into the defending 2017 Tour winner. The Alp d'Huez stage tomorrow should prove to be very enlightening on how this race will end up in Paris.

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Tour, Stage 11: Working for Seconds

Tom Dumoulin (Sunweb) went out on the offensive in the final kilometers of the climb up to La Rosiere.  Dumoulin went off and opened up a gap.  He did bridge across to Damiano Caruso (BMC) who had been in the break all day.  At this point, Geraint Thomas (Sky) left his team leader Chris Froome behind and gone in search of Dumoulin.  Sky was in a great position, Thomas is poised to take the yellow jersey, and should anyone counter his move, then Froome is free to attack and move himself further up the general classification.  Thomas is looking behind to see if it is Froome, or someone else coming up to this trio.

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Tour, Stage 11: Two More Are Coming

Mikel Nieve (Mitchelton-Scott) looked over at his break away companions.  I'm not sure if he was letting them know that Nicolas Edet and Daniel Narvarro (Cofidis) were coming up to them, or if he was about to attack Damiano Caruso (BMC) and Warren Barguil (Fortuneo Samsic).  They were on the way up La Rosiere, the final climb of the day.  Unlike yesterday, there would be no riding down the other side of the mountain.  Today the stage would end on top of the Catagory 1 climb.

And yes, Nieve, went on the offensive, riding everyone off of his wheel.

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