Greig Leach

Today is the lone individual time trial of this Tour de France. Usually there are two, plus on occasion a team time trial as well. It was not a lucky one for Alexis Renard (Cofidis). He crashed in the very first corner, but got back up and kept riding. NBC had a commentator in the team car, and as Renard got back up and onto his bike he told the team director that he had dislocated his elbow. Later in the stage NBC was informed that he had fractured his elbow). That might have something to do with why he was caught by Soren Werenskjold (Uno-X). To be fair, Renard had just past the guy who started ahead of him, which of course means the Norwegian Time Trial Champion has now passed two guys on the course. The Norwegian beat Renard by three and a half minutes but was over seven minutes behind the guy who won the stage. Renard was the Lantern Rouge on the stage, but then he left the race after he finished riding with a broken elbow.