Stage 10

The road

At the start

Contador's Tour ended in Andorra

Alberto Contador stopped on the Port del Cantó with a hundred kilometres still to ride and got into the car; the man who came for a third title is gone. Chris Froome keeps yellow, Adam Yates at sixteen seconds, Dan Martin at nineteen, Quintana at twenty-three. After the rest day the race climbs straight out of Andorra over the 2,408-metre Port d'Envalira from the gun, then runs a long way downhill to Revel.

How it was won

1. 1173 km to go

   Straight up the Envalira

   The hardest opening of the race: 22.6km of climbing to 2,408 metres from the gun, and the escape has to be earned at altitude before a very long descent out of Andorra.

2. 220 km to go

   Seven get away

   With the break bickering, a select group of seven pulls clear inside the last 20km — Sagan, Matthews, Impey, Durbridge, Van Avermaet, Boasson Hagen and Dumoulin. It is now a race for the stage among them.

3. 37 km to go

   Impey hammers Sagan

   On the two-kilometre climb into the Revel finishing loop Daryl Impey attacks again and again, trying to soften the world champion for his sprinter. Sagan closes every one of them himself.

4. 4At the line

   Matthews' first Tour stage

   Impey leads out, Van Avermaet launches from the back inside 200 metres, and Michael Matthews reacts fastest of all to take the win — Sagan, for once, unable to come round.

The result