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Tour de France: Chris Froome destroys field to increase
leadChris Froome produced a stunning ride to win stage 10 of the
Tour de France and increase his overall lead to nearly three
minutes.Team Sky rider Froome - who led by 12 seconds overnight -
broke away with 7km to go of the first summit finish of this year's
race to win emphatically in La Pierre-Saint-Martin.Tejay van
Garderen now trails Froome by two minutes 52 seconds.Richie Porte
was second, 59 seconds back, with Nairo Quintana third.It was the
fifth stage win of the2013 champion'sTour de France career and puts
him in a commanding position with 11 stages remaining.All of his
main rivals for the yellow jersey lost significant time as Froome
pulled clear, with Quintana now three minutes and nine seconds
behind, Alejandro Valverde four minutes one second behind and
Alberto Contador three seconds further back.Froome's Team Sky
team-mate Geraint Thomas is now in fifth place overall while
defending champion Nibali's challenge is in tatters after he lost
more than four minutes to Froome."I'm lost for words," said Froome.
"That was unbelievable."I could not believe it when I asked the
guys to push on a bit and we were hearing on the radio the big
names being dropped. It was textbook from the team and I'm just
over the moon to finish it off for them."It was the first summit
finish of the race and Froome could not have made a more decisive
statement of his intention to claim his second Tour victory.The
30-year-old sat in with his Team Sky team-mates while Quintana's
Movistar team made the early pace up the 15km climb towards the
finish.A blistering rate soon saw riders disappearing out of the
back, while at one point Froome appeared to be uncomfortable as he
hung on a team-mate's wheel.But that proved to be nothing more than
a rouse and when Froome made his explosive move there was nothing
anybody could do to stay with him.The only danger to the Briton
appeared to come from fans as they closed in around him on some of
the steeper sections of the climb up the Cote de Cauterets.More to
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