Behind Pinot, who remains alone, and the trio formed of Kern, Rodriguez and Gesink, there are ten riders: Uran and Wiggins (Sky), Van den Broeck (Omega), Vinokourov (Astana), Sivtsov (HTC), Péraud (Ag2r), Evans (BMC), Moncoutié (Cofidis), Brajkovic (RadioShack) and Voeckler (Europcar).