2010 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20#Stage 13
The 13th stage of the 2010 Tour de France on July 17, led about 196 km from Rodez to Revel. At this stage, with a flat profile, there were two intermediate sprints and five mountain stages, two of the third category, as well as three of the fourth category. After the abandonment of Tyler Farrar 176 of the 198 registered participants were at the start.
Race course
After 5.7 kilometers neutral ride while the Lance Armstrong crashed, but was able to continue, the driver arrived at 12:48 clock the real start. After several failed attempts by other drivers were able to settle after four kilometers Juan Antonio Flecha, Sylvain Chavanel and Pierrick Fedrigo. A group of riders and Pawel Brutt unsuccessfully tried it past down the triad. These three eventually let go but the field. Clean Taaramäe left the tour.
Chavanel won the first mountain stage. The field went with a gap of about six minutes on the summit, then the projection stabilized. Fedrigo crossed first, the second mountain stage and was also at the first intermediate sprint forward. In the field Columbia and Lampre now controlled the tempo. In still falling edge it was again Fedrigo, who reached first, the third mountain stage. As the field reached the mountain classification, Christophe Moreau sprinted out of the box to achieve the last point. Thomas Voeckler, however, could it still snatch the point. Sergei Ivanov and Alexander Vinokourov tried after the feed zone an attack, but broke this off. Chavanel won in the top group, the fourth mountain stage and Flecha the second sprint. Due to the pace of the field work, the projection of the group was now significantly smaller and the teams of the driver standings took the lead. Jesús Hernández came to case, but had no consequences.
On the ascent to the last mountain stage to split the field, Armstrong and Anthony Charteau were located in the rear group. The escapees were captured ten kilometers from the finish again, as Team Columbia again increased the pace. As by Mark Cavendish lost the connection and the team reduced the pace somewhat, Alessandro Ballan took the opportunity to attack and won the mountains classification. A trio of Carlos Barredo, Damiano Cunego and Nicolas Roche followed him, without being able to reach him. Vinokourov and Luis León Sánchez were the next attacker. Vinokourov sat down at the top and Ballan fell back into the field. Thomas Voeckler tried in vain to still catch up with the vehicle in front of him, Kazakhs, but he was eventually caught up with the field. Vinokourov rescued a lead of 13 seconds on the peloton and took the missed day before stage victory. The sprint of the field was again won by Cavendish before Alessandro Petacchi, of the green jersey zurückerkämpfte, since his biggest rival in the points classification Thor Hushovd was only eight.
Sprints
- Second intermediate sprint in Caraman ( 174.5 km ) ( 347 m)
- Target in Revel ( 196 km ) ( 262 m)
Climbs
- Côte de Mergals, Category 4 ( 24 km ) ( 637 m; 3.7 km à 3,8 %)
- Côte de Begon, Category 4 ( 31.5 km ) ( 698 m; 3.1 km à 4,5% )
- Côte d' Ambialet, Category 3 ( 72 km ) ( 474 m; 5.2 km à 4,6 %)
- Côte de Puylaurens, Category 4 ( 125 km ) ( 368 m; 4.3 km à 3,9 %)
- Côte de Saint- Ferréol, Category 3 ( 188.5 km ) ( 397 m; 1.9 km of 6 %)