Belgian Wim Vansevenant, the last man in the Tour's general classification, gets the stage under way at 1015 BST British rider Bradley Wiggins is one the first to get to the end and briefly takes the lead with a time of 1:15:21 Team CSC's David Zabriskie leaves Le Creusot and begins the 57km ride to Montceau-les-Mines, as the Tour nears its end Sebastian Lang adjusts his sunglasses before recording a quick time at the first check-point in Monchanin-le-Haut Viatceslav Ekimov, the oldest man in the race, powers towards the line to post a new best time of 1:11:27 Time-trial specialist David Millar is pessimistic before the start and his time of 1:11:46 sees him finish behind the leaders With Lang and Zabriskie edging Ekimov into third, T-Mobile's Serhiy Honchar comes in 3:18 ahead of the German His team-mate Andreas Kloeden also completes an excellent time-trial, coming home second, 40 seconds behind Floyd Landis catches his breath after completing the stage in third to put real pressure on overall leader Oscar Pereiro The yellow-jersey wearer is the last home and sees his lead turned into a 59-second defecit by the Phonak rider
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