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Chris Froome continued his domination of this year's Tour as he won today's Time Trial by 21 seconds from Tom Domoulin. More importantly he gained vast amounts of time on all his GC rivals, the closest being Richie Porte and Fabia Aru, who both lost 33 seconds. Of the rest, only Romain Bardet was within 1 minute.

Froome is now 3'52" ahead of his nearest rival, Bauke Mollema, but 2nd to 8th are covered by 3'45", so the minor places are definitely up for grabs with tomorrow's stage to the foothills of Mont Blanc, featuring an early sprint and 4 stiff, tortuous climbs, the last one to the finishing line.

Team Sky will surely be ultra-protective of Froome, but will he attack to once again dominate his nearest rivals or will he stay defensive as long as he is in control? Attack is the best form of defence as long as he feels fresh enough. There will surely be an early breakaway by 20 or 30 riders and a couple of GC riders will try to bridge the gap in the last half of the race to put Froome under some pressure. He has had his own way so far and a move has to be made tomorrow if anyone else is interested in winning. Porte and Aru have looked good, but Quintana seems to be very one-paced and has done well to hang on. I wouldn't like to discount Bardet either.