The riders will have a well-earned rest on Monday, giving us a chance to analyse one of the most dramatic starts to a Tour de France in many years.
There's been so much action and plenty of headlines in nine stages, but the biggest story has undoubtedly been the feud in Team Astana. And the most memorable moment has come not from Lance Armstrong but Alberto Contador.
Contador made a statement on Friday with his lone attack on the climb to Andorra Arcalis. And he also made a less public - but no less important - statement in front of the media later that day.
With dozens of journalists waiting to talk to him, Contador stormed into the interview area with a look of what you might call absolute domination on his face.
Normally race organisers ASO welcome the jersey holders and men of the day before guiding them courteously from camera to camera. And riders are generally happy to be led around and politely give their answers. But not this time.
Contador refused any guidance from ASO, instead walking straight to a Spanish journalist at the far end of the media compound. Then he turned to the TV crews: but Contador was the man who decided who he spoke to, and what what was spoken about.
Everything about his body language said: "I'm the boss around here. And I'm not going to take any more of this nonsense."
It was a classic alpha male performance. He was sick of the shoddy treatment he felt he'd been receiving at the hands of his own team and made a statement accordingly.
In general Contador has adopted a very cagey attitude to his media commitments. He's disengaged from the substance of the issues he's being questioned on and responded merely with cliches.
But on Friday those pat answers gave way to a demonstration of something heartfelt, and something disarmingly sincere.
One of the most telling episodes in this feud took place in the middle of last week, when Contador's team-mate and friend Benjamin Noval went to a Spanish radio station to say Astana had split into cliques since Armstrong's comeback last year.
Noval added that he believes directeur sportif Johann Bruyneel has lost control of the team. And also that he'd told Bruyneel all this to his face.
So what about the rest of the race? I think Contador will be stronger than Armstrong over three weeks, particularly in the Alps. But will he have the support of the Astana team? And if not is that where could Caisse d'Epargne step in?
Contador helped Alejandro Valverde win the Dauphiné Libéré in June. He's the highest profile signing that any Spanish team could make, and they'd do anything to get him: so don't be surprised to see them working for him for the rest of the race.
It's been a great Tour de France already, and it promises to get even better from here.
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