The Tour de France

Sandy Casar won stage nine of the Tour de France Morzine-Avoriaz to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne but Andy Schleck is the new race leader.
Andy Schleck seized the Tour de France reins after joining forces with defending champion Alberto Contador in a hard, 204.5-km Alpine stage in which most of the other favorites dropped out of contention.
Australian Cadel Evans, the race leader at the start of Tuesday, was unable to stay in contact because of a fractured elbow suffered in a crash in the previous stage on Sunday.
Stage 9 Results
1 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française des Jeux - 5:38:10
2 Luis León Sánchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d’Epargne
3 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Farnese Vini
4 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Caisse d’Epargne - 0:00:02
5 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Bbox Bouygues Telecom
6 Alberto Contador Velasco (Spa) Astana
7 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team Saxo Bank
8 Samuel Sánchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel – Euskadi - 0:00:52
9 Joaquin Rodriguez (Spa) Team Katusha - 0:02:07
10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Team Radioshack
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