Cadel can climb into Tour top five: Tejay Cadel Evans' key lieutenant in the mountains believes the former Tour de France winner can still climb into the top five overall as the race enters the Alps. American Tejay van Garderen (BMC) was in the break on Saturday's 14th stage to Lyon won by Italian Matteo Trentin (Omega Pharma) just ahead of Orica-GreenEdge's Michael Albasini. After crossing the line van Garderen was quick to look forward to Sunday's 242.5km stage which finishes atop the legendary Mont Ventoux. "Every year at the Tour when you get into the third week guys just start to die and crack in front of you," the best young rider at the 2012 Tour said. Cadel has shown that he can be pretty stable in the third week so I would say he could finish in the top 10 and maybe even the top five still. Evans finished Saturday's stage with the leading general classification (GC) riders some 7:17 back from Trentin who was part of an 18-man break that stayed away. The Australian slipped one spot on GC to 13th after American Andrew Talansky finished third on the stage and jumped up to 12th overall. Evans, still 6:54 back from the yellow jersey of Chris Froome (Sky), tweeted after the finish that it had been a "nice stage." Thanks to the many who turned out to create the ambience. Nice change to cross the line without our tongues hanging out. Australian outfit Orica-GreenEdge came desperately close to snaring another stage win to go with Simon Gerrans' victory in the first week and the team time trail on stage four. Albasini opened up his sprint with 200 metres to go but was caught by a fast-finishing Trentin who'd launched himself from the back of the lead group. "For the moment, there is a lot of frustration," Albasini said on the team's website. There was a lot of headwind in the finish straight. I went too early. The timing would have been right without the wind. It was too soon with it. Orica-GreenEdge director Matt White said the team had a number of cards to play on Saturday. "We knew it was likely the break would stay away," White said. We had a number of options. Cam Meyer, Simon Clarke, Simon Gerrans and Michael Albasini were all given the chance to get in there. It was a good ride by Albasini but I understand why he's disappointed. Froome says having to climb the 21km Mont Ventoux at the end of Tour's longest stage will be "brutal." "I'm expecting big time gaps on the general classification after tomorrow night," the Kenyan-born Briton said. The 2012 runner-up believes a lot riders are tired while others have lost big time already "so there are a lot of reasons to attack tomorrow."