The real excitement of Friday's stage was the anticipation of Saturday's individual time trial--53km from Cerilly to Saint-Amand-Montrond. Frankie Andreu reports that Carlos Sastre is "calm and ready" while Cadel Evans is...difficult to talk to (listen to the podcast to get a "head's up" from Frankie on another Evans youtube video).

Meanwhile, Paul Sherwen receives an award for 30 years of covering the Tour and Wim Vansevenant may be on the verge of setting a Tour record of his own.

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