Tour de France Betting - Contador, Armstrong Chasing Nocentini

While the UFC 100 fight card will be on the minds of many sportsbook betting players this weekend, you can't forget about Tour de France betting as cycling's biggest event heads into its eighth stage on Saturday. The Pyrenees is often the place in the event where the best seperate themselves, and heading into it, Alberto Contador and Lance Armstrong will try and track down Rinaldo Nocentini.

Brice Feilli won the seventh stage, and the first mountain stage in the competition, while previous leader Fabian Cancellara finished the race just over nine minutes after Feillu to drop out of the top spot. Nocentini picked up the yellow jersey and he leads Contador by six seconds, and Armstrong by eight. Contador was actually two seconds behind Armstron before the stage began, but a late push for the finish line allowed him to leapfrog his teammate. Much ahas been made about whether these two rivals could work together on the same team, and Armstrong didn't force the issue when Contador broke away, staying just close enough to still be a threat according to gambling software.

The seventh stage is actually the longest on the course this year, while Sunday's ride is one of the shortest, but it's all mountains, which shows you who the best conditioned rides are. This is where we expect Contador, Armstrong and the rest of the Astana team to put a gap between them and the Tour de France betting pack.