the tour de france after an impressive victory on stage ii, a 108.5 km ride from albertville to la rosieres greg van avermaet, who had led since the third stage, was well down the field in the main peloton and is now out of contention. with all the details, here is our man out in france, tom fordyce. a fine day for chris froome, and a wonderful one for his sky team—mate geraint thomas, the welshman attacking on the final climb to la rosiere to win stage ii and ride into the leader's yellowjersey. thomas was second in the overall classification overnight, but survived attacks from valverde before overhauling another opponent in the last 500m. he now has a lead of one minute and 25 seconds over chris froome, moulin third, and the two britons taking a tight grip on this famous old race. liverpool have agreed a world—record fee with roma for brazilian goalkeeper alisson. the $87 million deal will be the most any club has ever paid for a keeper. the 25—year—old joined roma from brazilian side internacional two years ago. alisson played in all five of brazil's world cup matches, keeping three cl