Here is a scene from today’s epic stage of the Tour de France. Spanish cyclist Carlos Sastre, who has finished highly in the Tour several times (20th, 10th, ninth, eighth, 21st, third, and fourth), won the stage into L’Alpe d’Huez and vaulted into the overall lead by 1:24. Australian cyclist Cadel Evans lost 2:15 to Sastre on the stage and lies in fourth place overall, 1:34 behind. It should all come down to Saturday’s individual time trial. Sastre is said to need two minutes on Evans, who is a superior time trialist, but wearing the yellow jersey does strange things to a man. Here is tomorrow’s stage. Here is the New York Times story.