CAVENDISH was the winner in a stage where CONTADOR suffered a whiplash YOUR OWN TEAM It uncovers the 'war' of Astana

* The squad was cut into two groups in the absence of 30 kilometers to the end • The first Armstrong marched alongside their fellow Zubeldia and Popovych, who threw to leave behind the second group, which marched Contador, in theory, the team leader


The Tselinograd gave a boost that was supposed to be the team leader, Alberto Contador. Madrid was involved in a court of the squad leaving behind a group where their comrades marched Lance Armstrong, Yaroslav Popovych and Haimar Zubeldia. Latter two helped Columbia to shoot the first group, which made Contador will stay behind and lost its second position in general. In addition, Mark Cavendish won the stage victory and now takes two.

Inexplicable. That is the word to describe what has been the third stage of the Tour that elapsed between Marseilles and La Grande Motte on a journey of 196 kilometers. Nobody gave credit to what happened on a day which provided a very quiet but in the end has, among other things, to get an idea of what happens within the Astana team.
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But let's go by parts. The stage began with a trip tempranera corridors formed by quarter: Dumoulin, Bouet, Rubén Pérez, De Kort. Together we have achieved an advantage of up to twelve minutes on a very relaxed bunch and left to head to a career fighting for the impossible.

Columbia cut the bunch
And that is the route that he was with two coats of fourth category, which was conducive for the sprinters, with Cavendish in the lead, fight for the stage victory. It was the British team which put the batteries to begin to reduce the difference, after labor leader Cancellara, the Saxo Bank.

Finally, in the absence of less than 30 miles to the end, the escapees were neutralized and then began the strong pull of Columbia to avoid surprises. This effort resulted in the release of the day: the 'war' of Astana. No one then could imagine what would happen until the end of the stage.

The peloton was split in two. The first was, among others, much of the Columbia team, the leader's jersey with Cancellara, as some men's Cervelo Hushovd and, surprisingly, the three men Tselinograd among them Lance Armstrong, in addition to Haimar Zubeldia and Yaroslav Popovych.
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This did set off alarm bells among the Spanish fans, who could not understand how Alberto Contador, in addition to other favorites such as Carlos Sastre, Cadel Evans and Denis Menchov, stayed in a second group that failed to connect to the first and see how The gap has widened for a moment.

¡Zubeldia and Popovych's group pulled!
But what no amateur when it was seized shortly after Haimar Zubeldia and Yaroslav Popovych took the top spot after the first group to shoot it. The criticism then approached to Johan Bruyneel, manager of Astana, and that, incomprehensibly, he ordered two of his men to throw a small bunch where it was not what is, as he indicated a few days ago, leading his team Alberto Contador.

In the end, the sprint went to Mark Cavendish, who returned to having no rival in the rival meters and won his second stage victory in this year's Tour. But the news of the day reached 41 seconds, which was the time lost over the counter group of Armstrong, who carried on and is third overall, 19 seconds ahead of the Pinto.

The 'war' has broken out of Astana and more punctuated, as seen today, it's Alberto Contador, who, presumably, not be very happy to return to the hotel and that apparently will have to fight all the world to win this Tour. Even against his own team because, apparently seen the enemy is at home ...