Plus it looks like Alberto's strategy of keeping his powder dry to allow his banged up knee time to heal may be paying off - it seems to have recovered enough to have let him make up some of his lost time today.
And if he didn't overdo it on this stage, maybe he can rouse a couple of members of the snoozing Schleck clan from their family naptime & stage a rootin-tootin' shoot-out up the Galabier & L'Alpe d'Huez.
(Or maybe that wascally SINO Thor can steal it away from the lot of them when no one's looking! Heh-heh.)
“They’ve lit the touch paper and everyone’s thrown their hat in the ring!”