Luis Leon wins the seventh stage of Tour de France

This tour, in which Alberto Contador was not invited to participate because of problems in the past of his team, Astana, is being a festival of cycling.

Luis Leon Sanchez took second Spanish victory of this round gala, in a display of teamwork and individual. It was of the protagonists throughout the stage and in the final miles took the cat into the water to escape the peloton.

It was a medium mountain stage was not going to give surprises and no great differences in the face of general, but the escapees put salt on the stage. In front of the stage visible figured Luis Leon and David De la Fuente. It was the last port, a port near ramps third category but very hard, with the escapees in the head and the group of favorites, very small, very short time. De la Fuente took the mountain jersey. As the final climb up the group met the first 20 riders of the stage. Missing was the downhill and flat a mile to the finish.

Luis Leon was the most daring and dared to initiate a rapid descent, which could not join Schumacher. Oscar Pereiro again made a phenomenal job for Valverde to pull them when there was danger of court, but left his teammate Luis Leon savor the win.

The general does not undergo major changes.