Cancellara Lead Extended as Main contendors Caught Napping!

"The first 125 of todays relatively flat 196 kilometres between Marseille and La Grande-Motte was with Team Saxo Bank as the spearhead of the peloton from which four riders early on today's third stage had escaped. 

The quartet in the front, consisting of Ruben Moreno (Euskatel), Samuel Dumoulin (Cofidis), Maxime Bouet (Agritubel) and Koen de Kort (Skil-Shimano) was in a long leash, as Team Saxo Bank with 70 kilometres from the finish line took a well-deserved break from doing all the work and left the responsibility to the sprinter teams but they had a hard time getting organized. 
With 45 kilometres to go the breakaway had a 4.30 minutes lead to the field where Mark Cavendish' Team Columbia High Road as expected lined up in the front to make the stage ready for yet another key role on the finish line.
They did so well that the head of the field of thirty riders shook themselves free in the side wind, so several of the favorites, among others, Team Saxo Bank Andy Schleck, Denis Menchov (Rabobank) and Alberto Contador (Astana) was caught in the peloton whereas Team Saxo Bank's Fabian Cancellara was in the front with among others Lance Armstrong (Astana)." Team Saxo Bank