2011 Tour de France, Stage 1 to Stage 11#Stage 7
(38,6 km / h)
Yannick Talabardon ( SAU )
The seventh stage of the Tour de France 2011 on July 8, led about 218 km Le Mans to Chateauroux. On the flat stage, there was a sprint, but no climbs. As on the previous day were still 194 of the 198 registered riders at the start.
Race course
Yannick Talabardon undertook shortly after starting a successful escape attempt. Mickael Delage and Gianni Meersman followed him shortly afterwards Pablo Urtasun. The projection of the quartet rose rapidly at first and then more slowly up over eight minutes for the Garmin-Cervélo team, supported by team HTC -Highroad, was able to reduce its lead in low total race pace again. Meanwhile, Tom Boonen was due to a sustained fall in the 5th stage of the breach on the tour. Later, it came at an accelerated pace again to falls that led to the abandonment of Bradley Wiggins and Rémi Pauriol. Also injured by fall was Christopher Horner, but the race could still continue; Tyler Farrar has only been stopped.
The intermediate sprint won Mickael Delage out of the leading group in the field, Mark Cavendish won against Jose Joaquin Rojas. The reduced falls by the peloton caught the breakaway few kilometers from the finish again. The HTC team headed for Cavendish in the sprint, who won his second stage in this Tour de France and asserted itself against Alessandro Petacchi and Andre Greipel also attacking.
Scoring
- Intermediate sprint in Buzançais ( km 192.5, 131 m )
- Target in Chateauroux ( 218 km; 157 m )