Team Classification Summary

Team Garmin-Cervélo seemed to have lost leadership of the team standings for good after it dominated the first week following the team time trial. But the breakaway stage winner in Lourdes Thor Hushovd put the US-registered team of Jonathan Vaughters back on the top.
In the stage to Lourdes, Garmin-Cervélo finished five seconds ahead of Cofidis and FDJ.
In general rankings Hushovd’s squad gets the yellow ‘dossard’ again thanks to a five second advantage over the previous leaders, Leopard-Trek, which gave some assistance to the Europcar team at the front of the peloton today to help minimise the gap of the escapees. The squad Luxembourg certainly intend to return to the top at Plateau de Beille in stage 14.
The retirement of Andreas Klöden is likely to permanently remove the threat of RadioShack, the outgoing team champion which has lost three of their four leaders after the withdrawals, also on injury, Janez Brajkovic and Chris Horner.