although it looked like a fairly standard stage on paper, the weather played a major part and split the field dramatically. the biggest winner of the day was bettini who jumped clear for the win on a difficult finish. the biggest loser of the day was valverde who freaked out on the descent and lost over 3 min to the leaders so effectively is out of the running. when the astana and euskaltel teams saw him drop back they smashed him on the 50km run into town.on the tipping front, no real changes to the order, but a few people picked up some extra time. the biggest winner was team creditless onthedole who tipped well enough to pick up a swag of mountain points and jumped clearly into the lead.
rest day tomorrow before heading back to the hills.
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