Saturday: Fabian Cancellara takes the first yellow jersey of the 96th Tour but the climbs ahead will favour Contador, Bradley Wiggins and Roman Kreuziger look strong, and Lance Armstrong is not far off the pace in 10th
Sunday: The peloton passes through the Promenade des Anglais Nice as Stef Clement, Cyril Dessel, Stephane Auge and Jussi Veikkanen form an early breakaway as the 187km stage from Monaco to Brignoles takes shape
Britain's Mark Cavendish wins the stage in four hours, 30 minutes, Cancellara keeps the yellow, while Yukiya Arashiro's fifth place is the best ever by a Japanese rider on the Tour
Monday: The peloton heads along the seafront near Marseille in the early part of the 196.5km ride to La Grande-Motte as Samuel Dumoulin, Maxime Bouet, Ruben Perez Moreno and Koen de Kort break away from the pack
Cavendish's Team Columbia take control of the stage with around 30km remaining but seven-time winner Lance Armstrong and Cancellara remain in the hunt
The Manx star manages to resist the sprint of Cervelo's Thor Hushovd and wins a second successive stage to become the first Briton to hold the green jersey for two days in a row
Tuesday: The Italian Liquigas team set the early pace in the team time trial as they clock 47 minutes 27 secs for the 39km course around Montpellier
Liquigas are eventually overhauled by the Garmin-Slipstream team, featuring Britons David Millar and Bradley Wiggins, who set a time of 46 minutes 47 seconds
Astana win the team time trial by 18 seconds from Garmin but they miss out on giving Armstrong the overall lead by less than a second
Cancellara remains in yellow as his Saxo Bank team finish third but the Swiss is on the same time as Armstrong with another Astana rider Alberto Contador 19 seconds further back
Wednesday: Fine weather greets the riders as they begin Wednesday's 196.5 km fifth stage between Le Cap d'Agde and Perpignan
A six-man group including Thomas Voeckler make an early break and open up a good lead on the rest of the chasing pack
The Frenchman makes a dash for it with five kilometres to go and has enough energy left to record his first ever stage win
Thursday: Yellow jersey holder Cancellara takes his place in the heart of the peloton as the riders head along the Costa Brava during the 181.5km journey southwards from Girona to Barcelona
With about 29km to go until the finish in Barcelona, Britain's David Millar takes a gamble and makes a break away from the pack in a brave attempt to go it alone
Millar's exhaustion is evident as he is swallowed up by the peloton in the final two kilometres and it's left to Norway's Thor Hushovd to beat the pack to the line to win the sixth stage of the Tour
Friday: The seventh stage of the Tour sees the riders face a gruelling 224km route from Barcelona to Andorra Arcalis and it's France's Brice Feillu who claims the stage with an impressive display in the saddle
Cancellara loses his grip on the yellow jersey after struggling in the first mountain stage of the Tour and it's Italy's Rinaldo Nocentini who now holds it with Armstrong third overall
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