Bring on the Alps! Tour Blog Stage 10

Serious, serious mountains for the first time tonight .

Three biggies for the tour to get across, including the massive Col du Grand Colombier, a 1250m climb with gradients reaching 18% at times!!

Obviously Cadel, with the work to do, will be keen to peg back some of that 1'53" deficit to Wiggo, but we fear tonight will not be the stage it happens, with the final climb (Col du Richemond) still 40-odd clicks from the finish line, more than enough distance for Team Sky to swallow up any getaway manoeuvre he might attempt.

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OUR PICK: Expect to see the GC competitors play it safe and stick together tonight, leaving the stage win open for a breakaway. Could be almost anyone, but perhaps Chris Anker Sørenson, from the heady altitudes of Denmark, could take tonight to stamp a claim on the King of the Mountains Polka-Dot Jersey.

DRINK: A lighter red. Wines of the Haute-Savoie are hard to find here in Australia, but how about an

AUSSIE MATCH: A Bullers or Brown Brothers Mondeuse from Rutherglen.