Another Dramatic Climb

From Velonews

3:33 p.m. - Beltran is done.... he's popped. Hincapie is up there. They are but 2:10 behind the two leaders.

3:37 p.m. - This is shaping up to be quite a stage. Jaksche is moving ahead of Pereiro.

The gap is just 1:54 to the peloton.

The field is shrinking, but the biggies - Vino, Ullrich, Armstrong, Moreau, Basso, Horner, Leipheimer, Julich and more - are still there.

Savoldelli and Popovych are setting hard tempo as most of the riders from the break have been pulled back. Only Pereiro, Brochard and Jaksche are out.

3:40 - T-Mobile's Sevilla, Rabobank's Menchov have been dropped.

3:41 p.m. - Roberto Heras has been dropped.