The way I sees it ...

Postal would have had to waste a lot of unnecessary energy to give Lance a 23 second lead in a flat stage the day before a rest day, just to take the yellow jersey from the new (well-deserved) hero of French cycling. They would have had to chase down Voeckler's entire Brioches team to do so, and in the process expose Lance and themselves to an unnecessary risk of crashing. Voeckler kept the jersey by the skin of his teeth yesterday in a simply awe-inpiring display of heart and cajones and it really won't make a bit of difference in the overall standings to let him keep it one more day. All that really matters in the end is who is in yellow next sunday.

Plus half the field is riding around in ace bandages right now, and they're all dog-tired from those last 2 stages ...methinks the only agreement in place was that, once the break formed containing 10 men who were so far back they would have no bearing on the overall GC, the peleton agreed to let them go and call a truce for today and not jockey much for postion ( except of course for those crazy sprinters in the main peleton trying to rack up points at the very end...)

Rest assured, barring he!! freezing over*, Lance will be in yellow on Tuesday.

(* or Jo's powerful mojo, bwah hah hah)