Nuts and bolts

Today's stage featured a long breakaway and a great sprint finish.

Not much more to say other than here are the standings after Stage 18 of the 2007 Tour de France. My next post will posit on what might happen tomorrow in the time trial...can you say Levi!!??

Here are the top 30...

1 112 CONTADOR, Alberto ESP DSC 86:04:16.000 00:00:00.000
2 041 EVANS, Cadel AUS PRL 86:06:06.000 00:01:50.000
3 111 LEIPHEIMER, Levi USA DSC 86:07:05.000 00:02:49.000
4 031 SASTRE, Carlos ESP CSC 86:10:18.000 00:06:02.000
5 071 ZUBELDIA, Haimar ESP EUS 86:10:45.000 00:06:29.000
6 018 VALVERDE, Alejandro ESP GCE 86:14:34.000 00:10:18.000
7 027 KIRCHEN, Kim LUX TMO 86:15:52.000 00:11:36.000
8 118 POPOVYCH, Yaroslav UKR DSC 86:17:03.000 00:12:47.000
9 219 SOLER HERNANDEZ, Juan Mauricio COL BAR 86:17:47.000 00:13:31.000
10 073 ASTARLOZA, Mikel ESP EUS 86:17:58.000 00:13:42.000
11 011 PEREIRO SIO, Oscar ESP GCE 86:18:23.000 00:14:07.000
12 012 ARROYO, David ESP GCE 86:22:14.000 00:17:58.000
13 052 BOOGERD, Michael NED RAB 86:23:26.000 00:19:10.000
14 207 MAYO, Iban ESP SDV 86:26:30.000 00:22:14.000
15 044 HORNER, Christopher USA PRL 86:27:28.000 00:23:12.000
16 015 KARPETS, Vladimir RUS GCE 86:28:43.000 00:24:27.000
17 036 SCHLECK, Frank LUX CSC 86:32:54.000 00:28:38.000
18 153 BELTRAN, Manuel ESP LIQ 86:34:04.000 00:29:48.000
19 088 VALJAVEC, Tadej SLO LAM 86:37:37.000 00:33:21.000
20 204 COBO ACEBO, Juan Jose ESP SDV 86:38:48.000 00:34:32.000
21 174 GARATE, Juan Manuel ESP QSI 86:40:29.000 00:36:13.000
22 014 GUTIERREZ, José Ivan ESP GCE 86:49:39.000 00:45:23.000
23 078 TXURRUKA, Amets ESP EUS 86:50:10.000 00:45:54.000
24 106 FOFONOV, Dmitriy KAZ C.A 86:58:21.000 00:54:05.000
25 037 VANDEVELDE, Christian USA CSC 86:58:26.000 00:54:10.000
26 114 HINCAPIE, George USA DSC 86:58:51.000 00:54:35.000
27 068 GOUBERT, Stephane FRA A2R 87:06:03.000 01:01:47.000
28 089 VILA ERRANDONEA, Patxi ESP LAM 87:09:00.000 01:04:44.000
29 038 VOIGT, Jens GER CSC 87:10:00.000 01:05:44.000
30 107 HALGAND, Patrice FRA C.A 87:12:03.000 01:07:47.000