As a mate of mine put it "Good to see it really matters. Let's hope the England football team were watching. Really shows the difference and the degree to which some athletes care more about the sport than the pay packet..."

Renshaw. Take a bow son. Superb work in the build up to that one. Looked like Garmin had made a bit of a gap, but he just barged his way through with his shadow in tow and then bang, gone, over. Sensational.

It was a sensational lead out from Renshaw. Garmin looked to have it set up perfectly with 500m to go but he set up Cav for a relatively comfortable victory.

What a great job Mark Renshaw has done for Cav these last couple of days and nice to see it being recognised

Mark Renshaw is a beast of a lead out man, just look at the last stage of the Tour last year. He could have won that stage for himself if he hadn't pulled Cav with him, they were miles clear. In fact if it was anything but the Tour, I would expect Cav to gift him a stage at some point.

Cav summed it up after the finish, saying that the squad maybe are one or two men light - as a few enlightened punters on here have pointed out too, I should add - but when Renshaw's in that sort of form it doesn't really matter

Dominant ride by Chavanel today and he's back in yellow. That'll help eradicate the memory of that damn [ipavé[/i that screwed him up so much.

eurosport kept saying similar things. no ones mentioning that he's only been in yellow because everyone else sat up on monday

Fair point, but not everyone has to bow to the will of Cancellara

Armstrong's having a mare. He is due a bit of bad luck after all those years of avoiding trouble in all fairness.

Looks like Armstrong has thrown the towel in, could not get up those hills, will he finish the tour? what is his motivation to get up Alpe-d'huez? -

Schleck looks very strong he will take some beating if his team do the business in the team time trial.