Tour de France: Cunning Ricco climbs high to rise above rivals

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Ricco, a climbing specialist, outfoxed pre-race favourites Alejandro Valverde and Cadel Evans to win stage six through the mid-mountains of the Massif Central.

But while the 24-year-old Italian celebrated his success, German race leader Stefan Schumacher collided with a Gerolsteiner team-mate and lost the yellow jersey. That now belongs to Kim Kirchen, who has an overall lead of six seconds over Evans and is aiming to become Luxembourg's first winner of the event for 50 years.

Schumacher, who fell with 300metres to go, has slipped back to third and Britain's David Millar, who finished 51secs behind Ricco, dropped to fifth.