Calzati wins Tour de France stage; Honchar's yellow uncontested

French cyclist Sylvain Calzati showed us why there's a group of cyclists who gamble on a breakaway at the Tour de France everyday — sometimes the peloton doesn't catch up.

That's what happened Sunday on the 112-mile stage from Saint Meen le Grand to Lorient. Calzati and 5 other cyclists broke away from the peloton about 25 miles into the stage, and the AG2R cyclist stayed ahead the rest of the race.

Ukrainian cyclist Serhiy Honchar held onto the yellow jersey for T-Mobile, and American Floyd Landis remained in 2nd place, 1 minute behind.

American David Zabriskie also joined that leading group. At the end of the race, he simply said, “It was my turn to cover the breakaway.” But taking his turn gave the Team CSC rider the advantage of taking bonus seconds on intermediate sprints, which moved him up  one place into 9th in the general classification.

While Zabriskie and T-Mobile Matthias Kessler and Mario Aerts (Davitamon) were caught about 9 miles from the finish, two others racers –Kjell Carlström (Liquigas) and Patrice Halgand (Crédit Agricole) — survived just ahead of the peloton.

Calzati made his move about 18 miles from the finish when it became clear the peloton would catch the breakaway. Calzati powered up the road and no one could catch on. Throughout the rest of the race, the Frenchman actually gained time on the peloton.

No big changes among the other Americans, all sitting out of the Top 10.

The top 10 are:
1. Serhiy Gonchar (Ukr), T-Mobile
2. Floyd Landis (US), Phonak, 1:00 behind
3. Michael Rogers (Aus), T-Mobile, 1:08
4. Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger), T-Mobile, 1:45
5. Marcus Fothen (Ger), Gerolsteiner, 1:50
6. Andreas Kloden (Ger), T-Mobile, 1:50
7. Vladimir Karpets (Rus), Caisse d'Epargne, 1:52
8. Cadel Evans (Aus), Davitamon-Lotto, 1:52
9. David Zabriskie (US), CSC, 1:53
10. Denis Menchov (Rus),  Rabobank, 2:00

The positions of US racers are:
2. Floyd Landis (Phonak), 1:00 behind
9. David Zabriskie (Team CSC), 1:53
17 George Hincapie (Discovery), 2:30
22. Christian Vandevelde (Team CSC), 3:25
63. Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner), 6:17
126. Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto), 12:19

The peloton rests on Monday, then races a flat stage along the coast in southern France on Tuesday. Expect changes on Wednesday's stage, however, when the mountain stages begin in the Pyrenees.