Voeckler, fear.

Thomas Voeckler got a scare at the 17th step .

 

Thomas Voeckler was close to the correctional at the 17th step. Recent past of the fall, the yellow jersey grants 27 seconds of the favorites. Edvald Boasson Hagen of Norway extends the festival in Pinerolo, Italy.

 

The Tour de France is played everywhere. The precept is well known riders. Thomas Voeckler almost see his dream finally collapsing in a turn on Wednesday, between Gap and Pinerolo. Descended the yellow jersey at full speed in the tortuous descent leading to the arrival of the 17th stage in Italy when suddenly everything went too fast. A first alarm had not stopped in his cavalcade. But when he took too wide a right turn, he was happy to land in a small courtyard at the cost of acrobatics rider. Time to hit the road, the others were gone. Ivan Basso unless he could take the wheel for the final conceding 27 seconds on Evans, Contador, Sanchez and Schleck, who came all grouped.

Voeckler is very afraid:

, however, Alberto Contador has tried to reproduce the copy and paste the stage of Gap. The end of the first Alpine stage, which will be summarized at the last quarter of an hour, proposed a final similar to the previous day. Either side of a second category in the vicinity of the arrival, chained to an extremely technical downhill. Fertile ground to exclude rivals reluctant to this kind of danger. Contador has again shook the coconut. Three times. But this time, Andy Schleck did not pick up his luggage. Unable to make a difference in the climb, the Spaniard has taken all the risks on the descent. And it failed to pay. Accompanied by the faithful Samuel Sanchez, like yesterday, Pistolero was en route to a successful operation to finally be caught up by the rest of the favorites (Evans, A. Schleck, F. Schleck ...) on the line. So status quo. Except for Thomas Voeckler.

Boasson Hagen, the phenomenon of:
the yellow jersey had felt that there was a stab in the raid. A want to follow too closely the duo Contador-Sanchez, he narrowly missed out final drive. It has only 1'18''ahead of Cadel Evans in general. While it is true that all men who wore the yellow jersey on the evening of the 17th stage since 1990 (except in 2006 with the Floyd Landis case) then won the Tour, this may be short in view of the cons- trials. This scare should not overshadow the victory of Edvald Boasson Hagen. To believe that the Tour de France becomes a Tour of Norway. Frustrated the day after his compatriot Thor Hushovd, the wonder of Sky has done a great number to extricate a breakaway of 14 riders in this famous coastal Pramartino and sign his second victory after Lisieux. To the chagrin of French Sandy Casar (third), Julien El Fares (4th) and Sylvain Chavanel (5th), which must be satisfied with the places of honor. In fact, the sun came in the Tour de France. It should have melted the snow falling on the Galibier in recent days. The big fight tomorrow through Agnel, Izoard and Galibier will not be retracted. That's entertainment.

Classement de la 17e étape:
1. Boasson Hagen (Nor Sky) 4h18'00''
2. Mollema (BP, Rabobank) à 40''
3. Casar (Fra, FDJ) à 50''
4. El Fares (Fra, Cofidis) mt
5. Chavanel (Fra, Quick Step) mt

Classement général:
1. Voeckler (Fra, Europcar) 73h23'49''
2. Evans (Aus, BMC) à 1'18''
3. F. Schleck (Lux Leopard-Trek) à 1'22''
4. A. Schleck (Lux Leopard-Trek) à 2'36''
5. Sanchez (Esp, Euskaltel) à 2'59''

The 17th stage in pictures: