Should George be in yellow?  

I don't think Astana is to blame. They kinda held the gap hovering at 6:30 minutes for much of the lap. I think it was AG2R and Garmin that started to bring the tempo up to defend Nocentini's lead. And it kinda hurt too that the tempo went up a notch in the last kilometer during the lead-out to the finish line because HTC was trying to get some points back for Cavendish to get back the green jersey from Husholvd. If you think about it, that 5 second difference was lost in that final kilometer. It's kinda sad that George didn't get the yellow jersey. I think even Armstrong would admit that his longtime former teammate deserves the yellow. HTC should have dictated the tempo to defend George's lead when he was virtually the race leader during that breakaway. Cav should have been the bigger man and helped his teammate instead of worrying about the green. I'm still puzzled why they didn't go up front to slow down the tempo when their man is on a successful breakaway and has a big chance of getting the yellow jersey.

Keeping the pace down just a little more in the peloton and letting George take the yellow jersey would have been really classy by the rest of the teams. I don't think it would have been any skin off anyone's nose in the long run to hold back a little. Everyone knew that the leaders were going to shuffle in the mountains the day after anyway. On the other hand it is a race after all and if your team isn't there to try and win or at least make the best showing possible they shouldn't be there.