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15:45 – 22km – The first kilometer is the easiest with an average gradient of 6%.
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15:44 – 23km – The leaders hit the Col de la Colombiere. From Le Reposoir, the cat one mountain climbs at an average gradient of 8.5% over 7.5 kilometers.
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15:42 – 24km – Nibali has thrown caution to the wind on the descent and has pulled away from Wiggins and Armstrong.
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15:40 – 25km – Linus Gerdemann, Floyd Landis, Mario Aerts, Marco Pantani, Richard Virenque, Piotr Ugrumov and Thierry Claveyrolat have been the men over the top of the Col de la Colombiere in the past 20 years.
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15:38 – 26km – Sastre has punctured on the descent and that adds insult to injury for the defending champion.
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15:36 – 27km – The Sastre group is at 2:49 and also includes the leading Frenchman on GC, Christophe Le Mevel.
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15:34 – 28.5km – A Schleck-F Schleck-Contador-Kloden in that order over the summit. The gap is 1:03 to Nibali-Vande Velde-Wiggins-Armstrong.