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Losing Contact
While wearing the red racing bib of most combative rider, Alessandro De Marchi (Cannondale) was desperate to hold the wheel of the fast climbing Rafal Majka (Tinkoff Saxo). The pair had dropped the rest of the tatters of the original break away and were off to claim the stage at the summit in Risoul. Majka was free to use his ability on the high mountains for Tinkoff Saxo and himself now that his team leader, Alberto Contador, had been forced to abandon the Tour with a broken tibia. The young Polish rider road De Marchi off of his wheel in hopes of claiming the victory for the team and to claim some glory for the disappointed men of Tinkoff Saxo. The Polish flag waving fan along the side of the hairpin turn knew it was the move that would stick.