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Thursday, July 22, 2010

2010 Le Tour de France: Stage 17, Thursday, July 22nd: GC!

In GC (General Classification=Overall Leader):
1) CONTADOR 2) SCHLECK 3) S. SÁNCHEZ
4) MENCHOV 5) VAN DEN BROECK 6) GESINK
7) RODRIGUEZ OLIVER 8) HESJEDAL
9) KREUZIGER 10) HORNER.

No movement to report in GC Top 6. However new into GC Top 10 after today's stage in beautiful Pau, are Kreuziger (9) and Horner (10) with Rodriguez Oliver moving up 1 notch (from 8 to 9) while Hesjedal moves up two (from 10 to 8) . Out of GC Top 10 at the end of today's stage are two riders, American hopeful, Leipheimer, who was at least expected to finish on the podium this Tour is now in 13th and Russian rider, Vinokourov, who was caught doping thus retired in 2007 (but returned in 2008) falls to 16th.

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Action resumes on Friday, July 23, 2010 with Stage 18 in beautiful Salies-de-Bearn, Bordeaux (198 km = 123 miles)
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The 2010 Tour de France marks the 97th edition and runs 21 days starting
Saturday July 3rd to Sunday July 25th 2010.
It will be made up of 1 prologue and 20 stages and covers a total distance of 3,642 km (2,263 miles).

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