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Tour de France Stage 10 Report
July 9, Stage 10: St-Gildas-des-Bois – Saint Malo 197km
Kittel wins stage 10 at the Tour de France
Article Content from www.cyclingnews.com Report By: Laura Weislo Published: July 9
Video Recap from www.cycling.tv
Froome stays in yellow
Marcel Kittel (Argos-Shimano) won his second stage of the Tour de France in Saint-Malo in a rapid bunch sprint after 197km of racing in the North of France. The German topped his compatriot Andre Greipel, while Mark Cavendish was delayed by a tangle with Kittel’s teammate in the final 100m and finished third.
Cavendish bounced Tom Veelers away as he opened up his sprint, and astonishingly enough, the Argos rider was the only one to fall even though his bike and body tumbled across the road in the middle of the bunch.
Kittel was simultaneously thrilled to win his second stage of the Tour, but also upset about the crash and concerned for his teammate.
“I’m really happy we won the stage today, but on the other hand, Tom crashed at high speed and I hope he’s OK,” he said before watching a television replay of the crash
“You could say that it is more satisfying today because all the big sprinters were there at the finish. I’m really proud that I could beat even [André] Greipel in a close race to the line. I have to say a big thank you to my teammates; they did an amazing job and it’s just a pity that Tom [Veelers] crashed so bad in the last 100 metres. I really hope that he’s okay and that we can concentrate on the next stages.”
“Apparently [Mark] Cavendish bumped into Tom and he lost control of his handlebars and crashed… I cannot imagine that Cavendish did that on purpose, it just happens sometimes in a hectic final. Every sprinter wants to come to the front when he comes to the line and I hope that he’s okay.”
“I had a bit of a gap to André Greipel; when I started my sprint, I could use his slipstream to get up to his wheel and then to pass him just before the line. It was very close.”
Kittel wore the maillot jaune for a day on stage 2, and with a pair of wins, the team has already gotten everything it wanted out of the race.
“I’m so so happy we’ve had such as successful Tour,” Kittel said. “I’m proud of my boys, they did a great performance today. I’m hoping we can repeat that again, but from here on out it’s about enjoying the Tour.”
Chris Froome seemed relieved to finish the stage without losing time and is looking forward to gaining some seconds on his overall rivals in Wednesday’s 33km individual time trial to Mont-Saint-Michel.
“There was a lot of talk of cross winds and a lot of riders were nervous riders out there,” he said after the podium ceremony.
“I was happy to have Ian Stannard there to protect me. All day the team kept chipping away, keeping us out the wind and out of danger.”
“Tony Martin is sure to be targeting the TT. Personally I’m looking to lengthen or at least hold onto my lead I’ve got in the GC. I think a flat TT course like tomorrow is somewhere I can extend my lead a little bit.”
Despite the pressure, Froome said he is able to enjoy being race leader at the Tour de France.
“I’m enjoying it. This is the goal, to be here wearing this jersey. I’m trying to soak it all up. There’s a lot going on with the media obligations and it’s taking more time and I expected.”
How it unfolded
The Tour de France transfered from the Pyrenees on the rest day up to Loire-Atlantique for a nearly 200km stage that, while a target of the sprinters, was anything but flat. While lumpy, the stage had just one classified climb, making no threat to Pierre Rolland’s polka dot outfit.
Pedaling due north into a headwind toward Saint-Malo, the southern terminus of the English Channel, the overall contenders conserved their energies, and Froome’s Sky Procycling team let the sprinters’ teams take charge of the day.
True to formula, a breakaway of five riders, Jerome Cousin (Team Europcar), Juan Jose Oroz (Euskaltel), Luis Mate (Cofidis), Lieuwe Westra (Vacansolile) and Julien Simon (Sojasun), escaped in the first few kilometers and were very quickly given a few minutes’ lead.
With Oroz the highest placed on GC at 1:03:19 behind race leader Chris Froome, they could have been given a much larger leash, but the teams of Cavendish, Kittel and Greipel did not want to make too big of a task for themselves, and kept them pegged around four minutes for much of the stage.
The most excitement of the mid-point of the stage came from the intermediate sprint, where Mate put in a spirited effort to take the maximum prize ahead of Westra. Cannondale waited until the 1km banner before the intemediate sprint to take charge, pulling green jersey Sagan to the line, but the Slovakian champion was not fast enough and was beaten by Greipel for sixth place, with Cavendish coming in behind Sagan.
The gap to the leaders was cut in half before the next major landmark, the sole mountain sprint with 55km left to race. Westra sprinted away up the short Cote de Denain to take the single point on offer.
With 27km left in the stage, the peloton had whittled down the lead to less than a minute, and Oroz tried to attack, but could not get away.
With an anticipated switch from headwind to strong crosswind in the final 20km, the overall contenders were all moved up to the front of the race to stay safe from any possible splits in the peloton, creating a nervous atmosphere in the peloton as it wound through twisty roads along the coastline. Juan Antonio Flecha was the victim of the nerves, getting tangled with a Cofidis rider at a roundabout. In a separate crash, Garmin Sharp’s Andrew Talansky went down and had to mount a furious chase to get back in.
Up ahead, Westra was the first rider to go back to the field, likely in order to protect Mollema and Ten Dam in the hectic finale as the breakaway’s chances were clearly doomed.
Saxo-Tinkoff tried to split the bunch but failed, then Garmin took over control, allowing Talansky to get back in but also keeping stage 9 winner Dan Martin up in front. Once Lotto Belisol, Omega Pharma-Quickstep and Argos-Shimano started fighting for control, the breakaway was caught with 6km left to race.
Orica-GreenEdge then took to the front for Matthew Goss, with Stuart O’Grady negotiating the twisty run-in with aplomb. Saxo and Sky kept their GC men right at the front until the 3km to go banner, then the sprinters were given the green light.
Lotto Belisol appeared as if it would deliver Greipel to the victory, but the German champion opened up the sprint too early and was overpowered by Kittel before the line.
| Result | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Froome (GBr) Sky Procycling | 41:52:43 | |
| 2 | Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:01:25 | |
| 3 | Bauke Mollema (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 0:01:44 | |
| 4 | Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 0:01:50 | |
| 5 | Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 0:01:51 | |
| 6 | Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | ||
| 7 | Nairo Alexander Quintana Rojas (Col) Movistar Team | 0:02:02 | |
| 8 | Daniel Martin (Irl) Garmin-Sharp | 0:02:28 | |
| 9 | Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Katusha | 0:02:31 | |
| 10 | Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa (Por) Movistar Team | 0:02:45 | |
| 11 | Mikel Nieve Ituralde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:02:55 | |
| 12 | Jakob Fuglsang (Den) Astana Pro Team | 0:03:07 | |
| 13 | Michal Kwiatkowski (Pol) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 0:03:25 | |
| 14 | Jean-Christophe Peraud (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:03:29 | |
| 15 | Andy Schleck (Lux) RadioShack Leopard | 0:04:00 | |
| 16 | Cadel Evans (Aus) BMC Racing Team | 0:04:36 | |
| 17 | Michael Rogers (Aus) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 0:06:14 | |
| 18 | Daniel Moreno Fernandez (Spa) Katusha | 0:06:16 | |
| 19 | Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:06:40 | |
| 20 | Romain Bardet (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:07:09 | |
| 21 | Maxime Monfort (Bel) RadioShack Leopard | 0:07:55 | |
| 22 | Wouter Poels (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0:09:45 | |
| 23 | Jose Rodolfo Serpa Perez (Col) Lampre-Merida | 0:09:54 | |
| 24 | Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:10:30 | |
| 25 | Andrew Talansky (USA) Garmin-Sharp | 0:11:15 | |
| 26 | Pierre Rolland (Fra) Team Europcar | 0:12:34 | |
| 27 | Davide Malacarne (Ita) Team Europcar | 0:14:27 | |
| 28 | Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 0:14:35 | |
| 29 | Jan Bakelants (Bel) RadioShack Leopard | 0:15:52 | |
| 30 | Steve Morabito (Swi) BMC Racing Team | 0:17:14 | |
| 31 | John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:18:07 | |
| 32 | Robert Gesink (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 0:18:35 | |
| 33 | Eduard Vorganov (Rus) Katusha | 0:19:58 | |
| 34 | Richie Porte (Aus) Sky Procycling | 0:20:10 | |
| 35 | Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Lampre-Merida | 0:20:37 | |
| 36 | Maxime Mederel (Fra) Sojasun | 0:20:57 | |
| 37 | Mikel Astarloza Chaurreau (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:21:11 | |
| 38 | Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 0:22:30 | |
| 39 | Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (Spa) RadioShack Leopard | 0:25:53 | |
| 40 | Ruben Plaza Molina (Spa) Movistar Team | 0:26:02 | |
| 41 | Ryder Hesjedal (Can) Garmin-Sharp | 0:27:48 | |
| 42 | Andrey Amador Bakkazakova (CRc) Movistar Team | 0:30:35 | |
| 43 | Andreas Klöden (Ger) RadioShack Leopard | 0:30:43 | |
| 44 | Arnold Jeannesson (Fra) FDJ.fr | 0:31:34 | |
| 45 | Daryl Impey (RSA) Orica-GreenEdge | 0:31:41 | |
| 46 | Cyril Gautier (Fra) Team Europcar | ||
| 47 | Nicolas Roche (Irl) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 0:31:50 | |
| 48 | Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:32:09 | |
| 49 | Thibaut Pinot (Fra) FDJ.fr | 0:33:11 | |
| 50 | Tejay van Garderen (USA) BMC Racing Team | 0:35:01 | |
| 51 | Peter Velits (Svk) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 0:35:20 | |
| 52 | Alexis Vuillermoz (Fra) Sojasun | 0:35:43 | |
| 53 | Bram Tankink (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 0:37:00 | |
| 54 | Lars Petter Nordhaug (Nor) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 0:37:55 | |
| 55 | Arthur Vichot (Fra) FDJ.fr | 0:39:49 | |
| 56 | Amaël Moinard (Fra) BMC Racing Team | 0:41:00 | |
| 57 | Laurent Didier (Lux) RadioShack Leopard | 0:41:02 | |
| 58 | Thomas Danielson (USA) Garmin-Sharp | 0:42:04 | |
| 59 | Tony Gallopin (Fra) RadioShack Leopard | 0:43:21 | |
| 60 | Tom Dumoulin (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano | 0:44:39 | |
| 61 | Jon Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 0:45:03 | |
| 62 | Jens Voigt (Ger) RadioShack Leopard | 0:45:19 | |
| 63 | Manuele Mori (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 0:45:52 | |
| 64 | Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 0:46:40 | |
| 65 | Yury Trofimov (Rus) Katusha | 0:47:02 | |
| 66 | Simon Gerrans (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 0:49:14 | |
| 67 | Julien El Fares (Fra) Sojasun | 0:49:24 | |
| 68 | Alexandre Geniez (Fra) FDJ.fr | 0:49:55 | |
| 69 | Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 0:50:22 | |
| 70 | Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:50:40 | |
| 71 | Michael Albasini (Swi) Orica-GreenEdge | 0:51:22 | |
| 72 | Philippe Gilbert (Bel) BMC Racing Team | 0:51:48 | |
| 73 | Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 0:52:00 | |
| 74 | Peter Sagan (Svk) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 0:52:01 | |
| 75 | Jesus Hernandez Blazquez (Spa) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 0:52:12 | |
| 76 | Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Astana Pro Team | 0:52:29 | |
| 77 | Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 0:54:38 | |
| 78 | Edvald Boasson Hagen (Nor) Sky Procycling | 0:54:57 | |
| 79 | Simon Clarke (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 0:55:12 | |
| 80 | Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar | 0:55:14 | |
| 81 | Brent Bookwalter (USA) BMC Racing Team | 0:55:29 | |
| 82 | Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) FDJ.fr | 0:55:46 | |
| 83 | Peter Kennaugh (GBr) Sky Procycling | 0:55:51 | |
| 84 | Alberto Losada Alguacil (Spa) Katusha | 0:58:56 | |
| 85 | Bart De Clercq (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 0:59:37 | |
| 86 | Kristijan Koren (Slo) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:00:13 | |
| 87 | Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 1:00:22 | |
| 88 | Alessandro De Marchi (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:00:25 | |
| 89 | Jonathan Castroviejo Nicolas (Spa) Movistar Team | 1:01:54 | |
| 90 | Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:02:07 | |
| 91 | Simon Geschke (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:02:59 | |
| 92 | Juan Jose Oroz Ugalde (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:03:19 | |
| 93 | Daniele Bennati (Ita) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 1:03:24 | |
| 94 | Manuel Quinziato (Ita) BMC Racing Team | 1:04:55 | |
| 95 | Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Team Europcar | 1:05:43 | |
| 96 | Rudy Molard (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:06:01 | |
| 97 | Adam Hansen (Aus) Lotto Belisol | 1:07:36 | |
| 98 | Guillaume Levarlet (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:09:09 | |
| 99 | David Millar (GBr) Garmin-Sharp | 1:10:28 | |
| 100 | Marcus Burghardt (Ger) BMC Racing Team | 1:11:46 | |
| 101 | Elia Favilli (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 1:11:52 | |
| 102 | Moreno Moser (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:12:18 | |
| 103 | Julien Simon (Fra) Sojasun | 1:13:02 | |
| 104 | Gorka Izaguirre Insausti (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:13:06 | |
| 105 | Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Movistar Team | 1:13:33 | |
| 106 | Pavel Brutt (Rus) Katusha | 1:13:44 | |
| 107 | Jerome Coppel (Fra) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:14:20 | |
| 108 | Gatis Smukulis (Lat) Katusha | 1:15:46 | |
| 109 | Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Sky Procycling | 1:15:51 | |
| 110 | Alan Marangoni (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:16:00 | |
| 111 | Brice Feillu (Fra) Sojasun | 1:16:23 | |
| 112 | Jean-Marc Marino (Fra) Sojasun | 1:16:25 | |
| 113 | Cyril Lemoine (Fra) Sojasun | 1:16:45 | |
| 114 | Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) RadioShack Leopard | 1:17:52 | |
| 115 | Fabio Sabatini (Ita) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:18:06 | |
| 116 | Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:18:56 | |
| 117 | John Degenkolb (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:19:21 | |
| 118 | Tony Martin (Ger) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:20:29 | |
| 119 | Thomas De Gendt (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:22:33 | |
| 120 | Ramunas Navardauskas (Ltu) Garmin-Sharp | 1:24:32 | |
| 121 | Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (Por) Team Saxo-Tinkoff | 1:25:21 | |
| 122 | Luis Angel Mate Mardones (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:25:26 | |
| 123 | Jérémy Roy (Fra) FDJ.fr | 1:25:32 | |
| 124 | Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Lotto Belisol | 1:26:03 | |
| 125 | Davide Cimolai (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 1:26:18 | |
| 126 | Anthony Delaplace (Fra) Sojasun | 1:26:21 | |
| 127 | Maarten Wynants (Bel) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 1:26:57 | |
| 128 | Alexey Lutsenko (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 1:28:26 | |
| 129 | Blel Kadri (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 1:29:55 | |
| 130 | Lars Boom (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 1:30:35 | |
| 131 | David Veilleux (Can) Team Europcar | 1:31:06 | |
| 132 | Johannes Fröhlinger (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:31:58 | |
| 133 | Johnny Hoogerland (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | ||
| 134 | Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Movistar Team | 1:32:17 | |
| 135 | Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Sojasun | 1:32:51 | |
| 136 | Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 1:33:10 | |
| 137 | David Lopez Garcia (Spa) Sky Procycling | 1:33:31 | |
| 138 | André Greipel (Ger) Lotto Belisol | 1:34:22 | |
| 139 | Romain Sicard (Fra) Euskaltel-Euskadi | ||
| 140 | Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) FDJ.fr | 1:34:29 | |
| 141 | Alexander Kristoff (Nor) Katusha | 1:36:15 | |
| 142 | Gert Steegmans (Bel) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:37:04 | |
| 143 | Kévin Reza (Fra) Team Europcar | 1:37:05 | |
| 144 | Matteo Trentin (Ita) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:37:23 | |
| 145 | Roy Curvers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:37:34 | |
| 146 | Egoitz Garcia Echeguibel (Spa) Cofidis, Solutions Credits | 1:37:44 | |
| 147 | Boy van Poppel (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:38:11 | |
| 148 | Mark Cavendish (GBr) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:38:50 | |
| 149 | Ruben Perez Moreno (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:39:05 | |
| 150 | Greg Henderson (NZl) Lotto Belisol | 1:39:30 | |
| 151 | Roberto Ferrari (Ita) Lampre-Merida | 1:39:37 | |
| 152 | Danny van Poppel (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:40:05 | |
| 153 | Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:40:14 | |
| 154 | Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Lotto Belisol | 1:40:15 | |
| 155 | Brian Vandborg (Den) Cannondale Pro Cycling | 1:41:50 | |
| 156 | Aliaksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Katusha | 1:42:38 | |
| 157 | Niki Terpstra (Ned) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:42:44 | |
| 158 | Sébastien Minard (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale | 1:43:24 | |
| 159 | Thomas Leezer (Ned) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 1:44:50 | |
| 160 | Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Omega Pharma-Quick Step | 1:45:44 | |
| 161 | Brett Lancaster (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 1:45:53 | |
| 162 | Sep Vanmarcke (Bel) Belkin Pro Cycling Team | 1:46:04 | |
| 163 | Jurgen Roelandts (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 1:46:54 | |
| 164 | Matthew Harley Goss (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 1:47:00 | |
| 165 | Ian Stannard (GBr) Sky Procycling | 1:48:16 | |
| 166 | Jack Bauer (NZl) Garmin-Sharp | 1:48:29 | |
| 167 | William Bonnet (Fra) FDJ.fr | 1:48:32 | |
| 168 | Cameron Meyer (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 1:49:06 | |
| 169 | Marcel Kittel (Ger) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:49:36 | |
| 170 | Albert Timmer (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:50:42 | |
| 171 | Yohann Gene (Fra) Team Europcar | 1:51:28 | |
| 172 | Stuart O’Grady (Aus) Orica-GreenEdge | 1:52:13 | |
| 173 | Frederik Willems (Bel) Lotto Belisol | 1:52:39 | |
| 174 | Koen De Kort (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:52:53 | |
| 175 | Geraint Thomas (GBr) Sky Procycling | 1:53:06 | |
| 176 | Assan Bazayev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 1:56:29 | |
| 177 | Jerome Cousin (Fra) Team Europcar | 1:57:04 | |
| 178 | Kris Boeckmans (Bel) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:58:17 | |
| 179 | Tom Veelers (Ned) Team Argos-Shimano | 1:58:18 | |
| 180 | Lieuwe Westra (Ned) Vacansoleil-DCM Pro Cycling Team | 1:58:29 | |
| 181 | Svein Tuft (Can) Orica-GreenEdge | 2:00:07 | |
| 182 | Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana Pro Team | 2:01:13 |
