Cycling: Evans mellow in yellow as Tour catches another cheat

FOIX, France (AFP) — Australian Cadel Evans spent a relaxing first day in the Tour de France yellow jersey on Wednesday as the peloton reeled from a second doping positive control at the race.

Kurt-Asle Arvesen of Norway beat Swiss Martin Elmiger and Alessandro Ballan of Italy to the finish line of the 11th stage, held over 167.5km from Lannemezan to here, to hand his CSC team their first win of this year's edition.

"I've won two stages at the Giro d'Italia and the under-23 world championships, but this is the biggest win of my career," said Arvesen, the national road race champion.

Evans, riding for Silence, rode in with the main peloton 14:51 later following a bizarre final stage in the Pyrenees mountains which saw him retain his 1sec lead over CSC's Frank Schleck.

Still in third place overall is American ...