Wednesday, July 12, 2006

 

STAGE 10: FRENCH GLORY

DESSEL MAKES HIS MARK ON THE TOUR. Cyril Dessel was the rider who put the first emphatic stamp on the Tour de France as it headed into the mountains. A Frenchman, Dessel worked with a small breakaway group for most of the stage, claimed the most mountain climbing points, then attacked the breakaway group with Juan Mercado and built up and maintained a lead of more than 9 minutes over the Peloton. Dessel finished the stage a few centimeters behind the Spaniard Mercado. Though Mercado won the stage, Dessel claimed both the Polka-dot Jersey for leading in mountain climbing points and the Yellow Jersey for the overall race lead. A Frenchman leads the Tour de France by over 3 minutes on the first mountain stage! Viva la France!

GREAT TOUR PHOTOS. Scroll easily through lots of pages of really great Tour photography at Yahoo!

STAGE RESULTS. Full results of Stage 10 (and all previous stages) by Cyclingnews.

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS OF THE STAGE: OLN provides free video highlights and commentary wrap-ups of each stage by Bob Roll and Al Trautwig.

LISTEN TO THE TOUR LIVE. www.cyclingfans.com provides a link to Eurosport's live audio coverage of the Tour.

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