2010 Tour de France, Stage 11 to Stage 20#Stage 20

The 20th stage of the 2010 Tour de France on July 25, led over 102.5 km from Longjumeau to Paris on the circular course of the Champs-Élysées. The last part of the day ended with nine laps around the track. During these rounds two sprints were extended. As on the previous day were 170 of the 198 registered participants to tour start at the start.

Race course

The Team RadioShack stepped on stage in a black jersey, which should point out the number of cancer patients in millions with the number 28. However, this special jersey was not approved by the UCI. First, the driver of RadioShack pulled over just the normal team jackets. However, not enough for that, since the start numbers shall be clearly displayed. Thus, the team stopped to change the jerseys and to cocoon the start numbers. Stéphane Augé and Thomas Voeckler also briefly exchanged their jerseys. Only Lance Armstrong drove with the team jacket. After discussion he also changed the jersey and was pinning the race number, which though initially only fleetingly. The other driver waited with the officials at kilometer zero. Finally the race at 14:58 clock with over a quarter of an hour delay has started. With Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck as well as a few riders of the Astana team at the top of the box drove off with a relaxed pace and it started a few photo shoots. Now also Armstrong's race number was addressed.

After the drivers had for the first time reached the finish line and the inflection point on the Champs- Élysées, a six-member group consisting of Alyaksandr Kuschynski, Aleksandr Pliuşkin, Christophe Riblon, Rubén Pérez, Maarten Tjallingii and Stéphane Augé solved. From the attackers Kuschynski won as a soloist, the first intermediate sprint after the second finishing line before, run by Marcus Burghardt field caught up to him again. After that sparked a penalty group from Anthony Roux, Nicki Sørensen, Sandy Casar, Christophe Riblon, Tony Martin, Karsten Kroon, Christian Knees, Rémi Pauriol, Alan Pérez, Danilo Hondo and Aitor Pérez. These drivers were able to pull a gap of up to 25 seconds. Kroon won the second intermediate sprint, which was extended after the fifth checkered flag. That led the Teams HTC - Columbia and Sky and later Lampre field fetched then back on. Knees tried to break away from the group, he was followed by Kroon and Sørensen. While the other eight drivers were caught again, the three at the top could slightly increase their lead briefly again, before they too were caught up 5.5 kilometers from the finish. Thor Hushovd pulled on the sprint, which was won again by Mark Cavendish by a clear margin. Second was Alessandro Petacchi, who was able to defend his green jersey.

Sprints

• Second intermediate sprint skin of the Champs Elysees ( 77.5 km ) (60 m)

• Destination in Paris 's Champs Elysees ( km 102.5 ) (45 m)