Le Tour de Crash: Big names come tumbling down on another day of carnage

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8. Stage 11 - Team Sky takes control - Cadel Evans cracked in the Alps

Albertville / La Toussuire - Les Sybelles

If there was any lingering doubt about the strength of the Sky team, then wonder no more: the British outfit is the dominant force in the 99th Tour de France. The stage to La Tourssuire might have been won by a Frenchman - with Pierre Rolland pulling off another tremendous climbing coup to go alongside his triumph at Alpe d'Huez from the 2011 Tour - but Great Britain is in complete command of the general classification.

Wiggins increased his advantage over last year's champion, Cadel Evans, after the Australian suffered a little crisis on the final climb and had to be nursed home by the leader of the youth classification Tejay van Garderen. While Evans battled his way up the last mountain, Rolland danced ahead to an emphatic victory and then came the battle for minor places on GC, which was won by Christopher Froome who now moves up to second overall, 18 seconds ahead of another of today's aggressors, Vincenzo Nibali. The result sheet tells much of the story but it was a race with many attacks, several winners and quite a few losers.

http://www.letour.fr/le-tour/2012/us/stage-11/news/flm/rolland-wins-while-wiggins-increases-his-lead.html


Overall standings:


1. WIGGINS B.
2. FROOME C, 2' 05''
3. NIBALI V, 2' 23''
4. EVANS C. 3' 19''
5. VAN DEN BROECK J, 4' 48''
6. ZUBELDIA H, 6' 15''
7. VAN GARDEREN T, 6' 57''