The action starts at 13:25 on 24 July 2015. Froome is waiting to see if he has any team-mates left...The road has flattened out quite a bit now as they main part of that descent is complete. Tour de France 2015 : retrouvez le classement général de l'étape Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne - La Toussuire (Les Sybelles) sur L'Équipe. The Slovakian from Tinkoff-Saxo hasn't won on the Tour for over two years now, despite all those second places...Sky control matters on the front of the pack for the yellow jersey - and the gap is only 38 seconds for these leaders. Some mind games this morning from Dave Brailsford, who told Eurosport's Juan Antonio Flecha this morning that all the pressure is on Movistar, who have both Quintana and Valverde in the top three sandwiched between his riders, Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas. Poels has done an extraordinary job for Froome today - the two have been practically stuck to one another.Nibali is coping with the heat today by frequently pouring water over his head from his bidon. Warren Barguil (Giant-Alpecin) then has a pop, as does Bauke Mollema (Trek), Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) and Robert Gesink (LottoNL-Jumbo).Peter Sagan has been caught by the Sky-led peloton. The Colombian only has about 10 metres. They have been joined by Rodriguez and Rolland, though.Bardet has been caught by Uran. Nibali has one minute on his pursuer, so should hold on.Quintana and Froome are on the slight downhill section ahead of the final rise to the finish, while Nibali has reached the barriers so he knows he's getting close.Will Nibali hold on? Wir verwenden Cookies und ähnliche Technologien, um Dir unseren uneingeschränkten Service sowie personalisierte Anzeigen anzubieten.

Talansky has just been dropped.Rolland is now one minute down on lone leader Nibali and 1:18 ahead of the chasing pack.Now Rafal Majka comes to the front of the pack for Tinkoff-Saxo team-mate Alberto Contador.

Kategorie) und ein vermutlich spektakuläres Finale über 18 km hinauf nach La Toussuire an.Froome könnte hier die letzten Zweifel an seinem Gesamtsieg beseitigen.Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne war am Donnerstag bereits Zielort und gehört zur Präfektur Savoie in der Region Rhone-Alpes, zum vierten Mal ist die Große Schleife hier Gast. Etape du Tour 2015 will take place on the 19th of July and will follow the route of Tour de France, Stage 19 Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne to La Toussuire. They have 30 seconds over the yellow jersey group - and Froome has both Wout Poels and Geraint Thomas.Peter Sagan is back with the yellow jersey group in anticipation of some green jersey points. They have been joined by Rodriguez and Rolland, though.Bardet has been caught by Uran. This is basically the Col du Glandon but from the north side, followed by a small detour up the Croix de Fer at the top.

We'll bring you their names in a second.Here's a GIF of that Oliviera crash... it's hard to see what actually happened.Michael Valgren of Tinkoff-Saxo has abandoned the race just two days from Paris. It's very stretched out so we'll have to see how things pan out. The yellow jersey group is just 15 seconds back, though. Contador, Valverde, Quintana and Nibali are all there, while Froome is quite isolated. Nibali, Scarponi, Kruijswijk and Rodriguez are together on the front.Behind the Astana duo we have Europcar pair Gautier and Sicard - but it's all coming back with the yellow jersey closing in. The Colombian only has about 10 metres. Denmark's Jakob Fuglsang (Astana) is in second place on 64 points, Chris Froome third on 61 points and Belgian Serge Pauwels (MTN-Qhubeka) fifth on 55 points.Today's the day that Movistar need to do something if they want to stop Chris Froome of Team Sky winning this Tour.

10 points to Purito, who is now 10 clear of bardet. It's his debut Tour but he's been battling illness... a big shame.CRASH: As the riders pick up musettes at the intermediate sprint the pace slows and it looks like Lampre's Nelson Oliviera is clipped from behind by an official ASO team car - he's send flying to the ground, but the pace was very slow so it's not too serious.