stage 7 - Brioude Aurillac 159 km

Luis Sanchez: King of the Descending Finish!

Luis Sanchez earned a second victory for the Caisse d’Epargne squad
this year after an attack on the descent of the final climb in stage
seven. He bolted into the lead with four kilometers to go an, just as
he did on the downhill of the col du Tanneron in Paris-Nice, held off
the charge of the peloton to claim victory ahead of an elite field. Of
the top five in the stage to Aurillac, three have worn the yellow
jersey in the 2008 edition while sixth place when to Sanchez’s
team-mate, the 2006 Tour champion Oscar Pereiro. So ended a stage that
boasted a major bout of action at the halfway mark, when CSC split the
peloton to pieces with a fine display of teamwork that rid the yellow
jersey’s peloton of the rider in the polka-dot jersey and caused over
half the field to lose significant time.

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