Schleck Takes Stage, Landis Yellow

Floyd Landis reclaimed the yellow jersey in the Tour de France with fourth place in stage 15, L'Alpe d'Huez.

The American, riding for the Phonak team, took a 10-second advantage over previous leader Oscar Pereiro, who stays in touch in second overall.

The stage was won by Frank Schleck, who became the first rider from Luxembourg ever to win the famous stage by leaving Damiano Cunego behind with a late attack to take victory by 10 seconds.

Landis was not involved in the early breakaway, with Belgian Axel Merckx tasked with ensuring Phonak had a representative at the head of the field. The race favourite made his move late in the piece, attacking along with fellow contenders Carlos Sastre, of Team CSC, and Davitamon's Cadel Evans to chase down the rapidly diminishing lead group.

And, when he pushed for home on his own 10km out, only T-Mobile's Andreas Kloden was able to respond.

"The plan was to take as much out of the guys who were close to me as possible," Landis said. "My job was to follow Kloden, and I got the jersey back, so there you go."

After Pereiro, the chasing pack of Cyril Dessel, Denis Menchov, Sastre, Kloden and Evans trail Landis by over two minutes, but he refused to write off any of his challengers.

"You never know what's going to go on in the final week," he said. "The time differences are not that big yet, and I wouldn't write any of them off. A bad day can change everything, I've just been lucky that the good days have come at the right time."

Mountain classification from the ProTour Tour de France after Stage 15:

1. David De la Fuente (Spain / Saunier Duval ) 108

2. Fraenk Schleck (Luxembourg / Team CSC ) 74

3. Michael Rasmussen (Denmark / Rabobank ) 73

4. Floyd Landis (U.S. / Phonak ) 63

5. Cyril Dessel (France / AG2R ) 62

6. Fabian Wegmann (Germany / Gerolsteiner ) 61

7. Michael Boogerd (Netherlands / Rabobank ) 61

8. Stefano Garzelli (Italy / Liquigas ) 60

9. Damiano Cunego (Italy / Lampre ) 52

10. Juan Miguel Mercado (Spain / Agritubel ) 45