It was another day for the French as national cycling treasure Tommy Voeckler (and his tongue), won stage 10 from a breakaway in a sprint that developed so slowly that we still haven’t seen the finish line photos yet. The bad mother Voeckler managed to sprint away from a group that included Jen Voigt, the darling of dentists and middle managers everywhere, Scarponi, Devenyens and the recently limp wrested LL Sanchez. Voeckler had managed to escape the clutches of a larger breakaway that also included evil mastermind Sandy Casar, proving he was strong and very cagey in his win. Well done, Tommy! Enjoy the polka dot jersey, and we look forward to seeing the Voeckler Face for the duration of the Tour.

Meanwhile in the GC developments, Vincenzo Nibali used his descending skillz to try and gain some time on Wiggins on the downside of the Col du Grand Colombier. At one point Nibz had caught up to Sagz (yes, he does breakaways also!) and there was a neon green Liquigas choo choo going down the hill. Nibz’s attack was eventually dragged back by the tractor bean of the Sky Imperial Destroyer of Froome and Porte (Rogers had flatted and wasn’t able to help). This move did allow rebels Rolland and Van den Broeck to slip away and gain some time in a counter attack, while the Sky Empire was watching other rivals.

Cadel Evan’s alarm clock finally went off with about 3k to go, and he tried to gain some time by attacking on the finishing hill when it was tremendously too late. The Sky Troopers shut this down also, and as they rolled over the line, Wiggins gave Nibali a "look", from cycling news:

"When we crossed the line, Bradley turned and looked at me," Nibali said. "If he wants to be a great champion, he needs to have a bit of respect for his adversaries. Sometimes turning around and looking into your face is an insult."

I love this scenario, Wiggo taunting Nibz has all the class of a kid flipping off a classmate while standing behind their big brother with their tongue out. Wiggo did absolutely NO work on stage 10, yet felt it necessary to take a swipe at Nibz.This "look" is probably a reaction to Nibz’s statement saying that Wiggins "didn’t impress him", so we may have a new slap fight emerging in the peloton, which delights me because this race could get really boring very soon. Cadel’s team may have more riders, they don’t have better riders than Sky, so it’ll be up to Cadel, Nibali, Van den Broeck, Menchov (oh God) and anyone else they can find to get together and try to drop Froome, Porte, Rogers and Wiggo. And yes, I am saying they will need to form a rebel alliance.