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SAINT GERVAIS MONT BLANC, France -- As Chris Froome heads toward victory in the Tour de France with a trail of rivals fighting for the podium places next to him, further back in the field -- way, way back -- the little known or seen battle just to finish the race on Sunday continues.It is the race for those who will have little or no say in the final overall outcome, or who at best are sprinters or domestiques for the fast finishers who are saving themselves for one more crack at a stage win in Sundays flat 21st stage from Chantilly to the Champs-Elysees in Paris.But there are also a large number of them who are just struggling to survive and reach Paris for the honour of saying after three weeks of racing that they are a Tour de France finisher.Whatever category these riders fall into, this late in the Tour they will work together in the grupetto -- the group that forms after the overall contenders increase the ante up front, creating a pace that for most riders behind them is too hard to maintain.Its no matter that they may be from rival teams and on any other day intent on racing against each other. Now they race with each other at a pace calculated to finish within the days time limit, as as they did in Fridays 146-kilometer 19th stage from Albertville to Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc in the Alps and will do so again on Saturday in Stage 20, 146.5km from Megeve to Morzine.Survive that stage and the grupetto?-- barring disaster -- should all reach Paris on Sunday.Bernhard Eisel (Dimension Data), 35, an 11-time Tour rider from Austria and one of the key lead-out riders for British sprinter Mark Cavendish -- who left the race on Tuesday to focus on his Olympic Games preparation -- speaks of a special camaraderie within the grupetto.It is a spirit that grows especially in the third week when the suffering ramps up.It definitely started after the second rest day [on Tuesday], Eisel told ESPN in Albertville before Fridays start to Stage 19. These last two mountain stages [Thursday and Friday], this is where the pressure builds up and it gets a little bit more nervous. Will there be a grupetto? Will I get dropped before? Thats the crucial point.If you get dropped before the grupetto?is formed then it is a long long day for you.Eisel said the Tour is different in the first and second weeks for the peloton as most riders try to hang on as long as they can and the group forms really late; whereas in the third week the grupetto?usually forms early through accumulated exhaustion suddenly kicking in and the realisation that just finishing the stage within the time limit is the one real goal left.In the last week we try to look after each other, added Eisel, who as one of the senior riders is often tasked with setting the grupettos?pace. I try to look after the guys every day. It doesnt matter which team he is from or where he is from because I know how hard it is.Eisel began Fridays stage 174th overall from 177 riders, at 3 hours, 45 minutes, 21 seconds to Froome. By the end of a day marred by a crashes, Eisel was 172nd from 175 riders at 4:21:17 after placing 170th at 31:44 to French stage winner Romain Bardet (Ag2r-La Mondiale). Bardet is now second overall at 4:11 to Froome, with Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) third at 4:27.Eisels result aside, the Tour has been a huge success for him in light of his role in helping Cavendish win four stages and enjoy a day in the yellow leaders jersey after his first win.With Cavendishs victories, Eisels South African-registered Dimension Data team can add a fifth, with Briton Stephen Cummings win in Stage 7. They have also been present in many breaks with the likes of Belgian Serge Pauwels and Norwegian Edvald Boasson Hagen.Five stage wins is incredible. We hoped for two, Eisel said. We had the [yellow] jersey for one day and pretty much managed everything on the first stage. There on it was a nice flow.We pretty much havent missed a breakaway. We are definitely showing the jersey.Regarding Cavendish, who has been selected for the Olympics in Rio to race in the omnium on the track and be Team GBs fifth rider for the team pursuit, Eisel said: He is on fire. We saw him creeping before the Tour.He was a little bit sick. He turned it over. It was probably good he had a rest before the Tour. He got his legs spinning and in the end he was definitely the strongest ... at least the fastest [here].At the same time, thats why I think it was a good decision to go home and concentrate on the Olympics ... [to] get a little rest before he goes back to the track. Cheap Fake Air Max 95 . It was hard for Luck to pull off another comeback, or even get into the end zone, while standing on the sideline. Rivers threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to rookie Keenan Allen and Nick Novak kicked four field goals to give the Chargers a 19-9 victory against the Colts on Monday night. 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