Brother versus brother

It's brother against brother in the Tour de France -- quite literally. Ralf Grabsch rides for Team Milram while his older brother Bert is employed by T-Mobile, but the two would-be rivals couldn't be much closer. Going into today's stage, the two are in places 132 (Bert) and 133 (Ralf), separated by a grand total of 13 seconds.

They finished with the same time in Thursday's stage, both in the first group, with Ralf winning the family duel in 24th, ahead of Bert in 30th. But they have finished even closer together in this race. Bert "won" the second Alps stage, but just barely, as they came in in places 108 and 109. "We came in with the same large group," he said on team-milram.de. "But he must have been on the other side of the pack. I didn't notice that we placed together."

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