2012 Tour de France, Prologue to Stage 10#Stage 10

(40,7 km / h)

The 10th stage of the 2012 Tour de France was held on 11 July 2012 and led from Mâcon to Bellegarde -sur -Valserine. With a length of 194.5 kilometers, there was a mountain stage of the Hors Category and one each of the 2nd and 3rd category. There were still 175 of 198 riders on.

Route

After the first rest day in Macon (169 m), the stage was initially in an easterly direction to the law approach, the last section resulted in a northerly direction to the destination in Bellegarde -sur -Valserine ( 427 m). The stage began in the department of Saône -et -Loire, and ended in the department of Ain. After a flat first stage thirds of the increase in the second category, after 73 kilometers in Ambronay (248 m) up to the Côte de Corlier ( 762 m ) has been tackled. On the high plateau, there were six kilometers to Aranc ( 849 m), the official aid station. After the descent from the plateau of the intermediate sprint of the day was played in BÃ © (255 m), also there began the ascent to the Grand Colombier (1501 m). The Mountain Grand Colombier is accessible by a road and is considered one of the toughest climbs in France. He was included in the route map of the Tour de France for the first time. Following the departure down to Lochieu (662 m ) was followed by the rise of the third category Col de Richemond ( 1051 m). From there we went down to the final destination of Bellegarde-sur -Valserine.

Race course

Shortly after the launch took Peter Sagan, Cyril Lemoine and Andrij Hrywko a breakaway, with Lemoine fell back again soon. After 32 kilometers unlocked a large breakaway group to the top two, so that now includes 25 riders group was first and foremost. At that included, among others, Thomas Voeckler, David Millar, David Zabriskie, Jens Voigt, Michele Scarponi, Michael Mørkøv, Dries Devenyns, Dmitri Fofonow, Egoi Martínez, Luis León Sánchez, Sandy Casar, Jean -Christophe Peraud and Matthew Goss. The projection on the field was to kilometer 71, ie still in the plane, be extended to nearly six minutes.

The first mountain stage on the Côte de Corlier decided Mørkøv for themselves. After 100 kilometers of the residue of the field was seven minutes. In BÃ © Goss won the intermediate sprint, just ahead Jauhen Hutarowitsch and Peter Sagan. Shortly thereafter, the 17 -kilometer climb to the Grand Colombier began. Already in the first meters had to Goss and Hutarowitsch be demolished, a little later Sagan and other drivers. The peloton took the rise with six minutes behind in attack and fell apart after a short time into many small groups; this is mainly due to the tightening pace of the team Sky.

Also, the leading group fell apart. Sánchez tried to benefit from it and ventured a Außreissversuch. Although he meanwhile had 30 seconds lead, he was caught after a few kilometers from Voeckler, Scarponi and Devenyns. Voeckler won the mountains classification at the Grand Colombier. About a minute behind the leading group was followed by another group of four with Voigt, Casar, Martínez and Fofonow; the group around the yellow jersey had on the pass a backlog of five and a half minutes. However, Voeckler tried to shake off his pursuers on the descent, she could not dissociate crucial.

The Col de Richemond happened Voeckler also first and the group of four was still together. From the second group departed Jens Voigt, who in the steep downhill gradually approached the leaders and eventually caught nine kilometers from the finish. Voigt tried to attack, but was immediately made available again. Three kilometers from the finish Devenyns sat seemingly preliminary decision of the lead group, but Voeckler finished at the beginning of the last kilometer up at him and immediately launched a counter-attack. Voeckler was the stage to decide for himself and took over the lead in the mountains classification price. The group around the overall leader Bradley Wiggins arrived with a delay of 3:16 minutes.

Climbs

Corlier Category 2 90 km to 762 m 6.4 km at 5.5 %

Grand Colombier hors Category after 151.5 km to 1501 m 17.4 km at 7.1%

Col de Richemond Category 3 after 174 km to 1051 m 7.2 km at 5.0 %

Scoring

Tasks

045 - Australia Matthew Lloyd ( Lampre- ISD ): Not competing in the National stage
082 - France Rémy Di Gregorio (Cofidis, le Crédit en Ligne ): Not started to stage; arrested on the rest day on suspicion of organized trafficking of doping substances and suspended from the team.
196 - Germany Tony Martin ( Omega Pharma- Quickstep ): Not started to stage (task on the day of rest)

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