days in the alps with the route favoring the sprinters four breakaway riders including switzerland's me share and belgium's thomas to get and set the pace chair held the lead but with six kilometers remaining was gobbled up by the peloton. in attack inside the final kilometer but the frenchman was caught with less than three hundred metres to go slovakia's paid in saigon showed his strength and added to his victories on stages two and five winning this time by just how full we'll norway's alexander christophe took second ahead of france's i've no duma to slovak writer was delighted with his win very happy the one today very nice for me and thanks to all my team mates. it again very good job teams guy ryder and baron thomas held on to the overall leader's yellow jersey but saigon extends his lead in the green jersey points classification. with the football well done and dusted top