Contador, Valverde, Quintana and Nibali are all there, while Froome is quite isolated. Valverde and Geraint Thomas (Sky) reacted to reel Contador in - sparking an attack from Vincenzo Nibali of Astana.ATTACK: Alberto Contador (Tinkoff-Saxo) pings off the front! Nibali has one minute on his pursuer, so should hold on.Quintana and Froome are on the slight downhill section ahead of the final rise to the finish, while Nibali has reached the barriers so he knows he's getting close.Will Nibali hold on? Gautier is burying himself to join the leaders ahead of a little group just out ahead of the yellow jersey group.

The gap is down to 1:45 thanks to the pace-setting of LottoNL-Jumbo.Plat du jour: The creamy yet crumbly Beaufort cheese is produced near to the town of La Chambre, an area the peloton passes through after the opening climb of the Col du Chaussy.Tour tipple: Produced by monks in the area since the 1737, Chartreuse is a dark green liqueur aged with 130 herbs, plants and flowers which, to be fair, is pretty foul and will give you a stonking hangover.Belgian youngster Wellens is back on his bike after a fair amount of hobbling around. Previous stage winner Ruben Plaza (Lampre) is there, as are Lieuwe Westra (Astana), Tony Gallopin (Lotto-Soudal), Romain Sicard (Europcar) and Martin/Talansky from Cannondale-Garmin. Tour de France – Follow this cycling race live with Eurosport. The action starts at 13:25 on 24 July 2015. Froome now only has Wout Poels and Geraint Tomas.Loads of riders are suffering here - the likes of Simon Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) and Sammy Sanchez (BMC) among a long list of riders off the back.Richie Porte has already been dropped by the main pack - and that is just what these attacks are designed for, to isolate Froome from his Sky team-mates.

It's very stretched out so we'll have to see how things pan out. Le départ fictif du parcours s'effectue dans la ville de De là, le parcours effectue une boucle de plusieurs kilomètres de part et d'autre de l’Arc, et c'est à De retour sur la rive opposée à La Chambre, le parcours prend la direction de la C'est au cours de la descente que le parcours s'écarte momentanément de la route vers Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne pour prendre celle conduisant au Débute alors la dernière ascension du parcours d'étape vers la Après de nombreuses attaques favorisée par l'ascension du They have 2:50 over the yellow jersey group and include the likes of Gautier, Rolland, Bardet and Rodriguez. He wanted to do better in this year's Tour, but the defending champion will get his stage win.Under the flamme rouge goes Nibali en route to his first win of this year's Tour.Quintana is opening the gap up on Froome, but it's still only 20-odd seconds. Poels has done an extraordinary job for Froome today - the two have been practically stuck to one another.Nibali is coping with the heat today by frequently pouring water over his head from his bidon. It's his debut Tour but he's been battling illness... a big shame.CRASH: As the riders pick up musettes at the intermediate sprint the pace slows and it looks like Lampre's Nelson Oliviera is clipped from behind by an official ASO team car - he's send flying to the ground, but the pace was very slow so it's not too serious.

Nibali riding to a certain victory and no reaction behind. Poels is back with Froome for Sky. Poels has just popped, so Froome is isolated again - but hat won' mater - he's won this race.Rolland is caught by the chasing pack. Back with the pack, it's still Jose Herrada who sets the tempo for Movistar.Nibali has reduced the gap to just 32 seconds - Rolland is clearly tiring as he passes the 1km-to-go marker on this climb. It's very stretched out so we'll have to see how things pan out. Contador and Valverde have attacked again. He has cuts to his elbow and hip after going down hard on his right flank. He has one kilometre to go to the finish.Nibali continues his solo pusuit of Pierre Rolland. The worse thing? I imagine Alejandro would love to be on the podium in Paris - and the one rider who could put that in jeopardy is Nairo, and an attack by him could see G on the podium - so there's a lot at stake there. 'Pierrot' has about 8km left of this climb, but he's done the hardest part and he has 1:50 over the other escapees.With team-mate Rolland up the road, Romain Sicard has dropped back into second place and lets Mick Rogers of Tinkoff-Saxo to take up the slack.Believe it or not: Thibaut Pinot, aged 22 and riding his debut Tour, finished second at La Toussuire behind Rolland in 2012 to underline his promise, with the likes of Froome, Wiggins and Nibali all further behind.

There's also a neat little highlights package put together by Rob Hatch - all in four minutes of pedalling bliss.We should also see some action in the king of the mountains competition today, which is currently being led by Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha) and yesterday's French winner Romain Bardet (Ag2R-La Mondiale). Thibaut Pinot of FDJ has gone with him. The Welshman is really struggling.Rolland might be on a good day, but his Europcar team-mate Thomas Voeckler has been dropped by the pack. Tour de France – Follow this cycling race live with Eurosport.

Froome now only has Wout Poels and Geraint Tomas.Loads of riders are suffering here - the likes of Simon Yates (Orica-GreenEdge) and Sammy Sanchez (BMC) among a long list of riders off the back.Richie Porte has already been dropped by the main pack - and that is just what these attacks are designed for, to isolate Froome from his Sky team-mates.

They pass in that order about 10 seconds ahead of the pack.Rolland holds on to take the points over the top of the Mollard, but he only has 5 seconds over Nibali and so will be joined quickly on the descent.Sticky bottle for Nibali as he picks up some water from his Astana team car.