Evans for yellow ?

Cadel Evans remained in contention for the Tour de France yellow jersey after surviving a hectic finale to the third stage of the race where American Tyler Farrar broke his duck on Monday.

Farrar, competing barely a month after the death of his best friend Wouter Weylandt at the Giro d'Italia, finished off the fine lead-out work of his Garmin-Cervelo team to hand it its second victory in as many days.

With Thor Hushovd having pulled on the yellow jersey after Sunday's 23km team time-trial in Les Essarts, the Norwegian will wear it into the fourth stage from Lorient to Brittany.