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Tour de France Stage 19 Results

The Alp d’Huez always proves to be the deciding day of the Tour de France. This year’s Tour de France winner is still undecided. The yellow jersey will come to the rider who has the best individual time trial, most likely Cadel Evans (BMC Racing). Although the Alp d’Huez did not give a 100% overall leader, it did change the overall lead. After Pierre Rolland (Europcar), won the stage ahead of Sammy Sanchez and Alberto Contador, it was a challenge between Cadel Evans and Andy Schleck (Leopard Trek). Schleck stayed with Evans and will receive the yellow leaders jersey. If he will take it back to Luxembourg is unknown.

As usual there was the day’s early breakaway, but not really any big names until Alberto Contador (Saxo Bank Sungard) made an attack that Andy Schleck followed. The two men rode away from their overall threats and eventually reached the breakaway and rode with them. Originally, Cadel Evans was on the attack with Contador and Schleck, but he had a mechanical issue and was dropped. Evans had two mechanical issues and a bike change today, and it was looking like his hopes for the overall win were slipping away.

Tour de France Betting Odds: The 109.5-kilometer Stage 19 of the Tour de France will run from Modane Valfréjus to Alpe-d’Huez.

The race’s official web site analyst, Jean-Francois Pescheux, described this leg of the race as "the stage everyone is afraid of.” It’s a short one, but the treacherous hills pose trouble at every bend so Tour de France Vegas odds will be tight to say the least.

Riders will take on back-to-back climbs of the Col du Télégraphe and the Galibier, and then finish with an ascension to Alpe d’Huez. Alpe-d’Huez has been a mainstay on the Tour and is lined with 21 hairpin turns that have produced myriad crashes. Six winners in Tour de France history have emerged after donning the Yellow Jersey at Alpe-d’Huez.

The brevity of Stage 19 allows climbers to give it all they have right out of the gate. Andy Schlek and Cadel Evans are two of the best climbers in the field this year so don’t hesitate to handicap their Tour de France odds in this sector of cycling.

These guys could already be near the lead following two mountain stages. Whoever is spearheading the pack won’t be quick to relinquish that position because there’s a good chance teams will be too fatigued to make a major move during this stage.

The 2011 Tour de France will run from Saturday, July 2 to Sunday, July 24. This will mark the 98th year of the historic cycling race which began in 1903. The Tour de France consists of 21 stages and covers a total distance of 3,471 kilometers. The race trail will feature 10 flat stages, six mountain stages, three medium-mountain stages, one individual time-trial stage, one team time-trial stage and four summit finishes.

Christian Prudhomme, Director of the Tour de France, said in a statement that the route of this year's race was designed with two objectives in mind: to set the pace from the beginning of the race and maintain suspense right up until the very end. These focal points should offer an exciting event for sports bettors to place wagers on so get in on the action at BookMaker today!

Alberto Contador took his third consecutive Tour de France title at last year's race which prompted oddsmakers across the globe to position the Spanaird as the Tour de France Vegas odds-on favorite to repeat at 4/6. The 'field' betting option is 11/10.

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