2017 Tour de France: Kittel wins for 4th time, Stage 11 Preview

 Stage 10 result: easy win number 4 for Marcel Kittel

 No change overall: Chris Froome still in Yellow 

Green Jersey Overall: Marcel Kittel consolidates his lead

Yesterday panned out as expected: a small break went away to be duly caught before Bergerac where Marcel Kittel comfortably won the sprint – his fourth stage victory in this year's tour. Kittel now has just over 100 points more than Michael Matthews in this competition. Kittel picked up 63 points on the day to Matthews paltry 9. 

Stage 11: Eymet to Pau 203.5 kms

This looks to be a very similar stage to yesterday – a small break will get away easily only to be caught shortly before the finish in Pau where Kittel take his 5th stage win of this Tour. The only complication is that there is some light rain forecast for the middle of the stage and at the end plus a little more wind than yesterday. However, this is likely to be another quiet stage. 

2012 Tour de France: Pierrick Fédrigo gives France its 4th stage win@Pau

Café du Nord in Menetou-Salon decorated for Le Tour in 2009

Pierrick Fedrigo gave France its fourth stage victory in this Tour by comfortably out-sprinting Christian Vande Velde on a flat finish in Pau. The expected bunch sprint never materialised. Although it took some long time before the break of six riders was established, the peloton showed little interest in keeping it under control and the gap went out to nearly 13 minutes.


On the run into Pau Fedrigo and Vande Velde dropped the other four, who included Thomas Voeckler. At the end the bunch ambled in 11.50 mins down with André Griepel winning the sprint for the line on his 30th birthday from Tyler Farrar and Peter Sagan. Sagan now has 356 points in the Green Jersey competition over 100 ahead of Griepel (254) and Goss (203).    

Today's stage saw a number of riders quit the Tour: Sylvain Chavanel, Kenny van Hummel, Yauheni Hutarovich, Giovanni Bernaudeau and Brett Lancaster. There are now 156 riders left from the 198, who started out.

Tomorrow is a rest day before the two stages in the Pyrénées, which will be the final opportunity for Wiggins rivals to take time off him before Saturday's time trial.