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?BAGNèRES-DE-LUCHON, France - When it came to Chris Froome unleashing the stage-winning move that would catch all his rivals out in this years Tour de France, the Kenyan-born Briton drew on the most basic instinct: his childhood love of cycling. Vapormax Australia Nike .After the two-time Tour winner won the 184km eighth stage from Pau to Bagnères-de-Luchon to take the yellow leaders jersey, he was asked if his aerodynamic position when descending the Col de Peyresourde to victory following his surprise attack near the summit was a marginal gain, like what his British Sky team often speak of when talking up their recipe success. Froome looked slightly bemused before saying: Not sure I call that a marginal gain ... Yeah ... call it what you want. I felt like a kid again out there. Just race my bike as fast as I could.That instinct paid dividends. Froome beat Irishman Dan Martin (Etixx-QuickStep) and 12 others by 13 seconds. In the group with Martin were other overall contenders, like Frenchman Romain Bardet (Ag2r) in fourth, Italian Fabio Aru (Astana) in sixth, Spaniard Alejandro Valverde (Movistar) in eighth, Australian Richie Porte (BMC) in 10th, Colombian Nairo Quintana (Movistar) in 11th and American Tejay van Garderen (BMC) in 12th.Also in the group was Briton Adam Yates (Orica-BikeExchange) in seventh. Yates kept the white jersey of best young rider and will go into Sundays ninth stage, 184.5km from Vielha Val DAran to Andorra-Arcalis, still in second place, but at 16 seconds to Froome. In third at the same time as Yates is Spaniard Joaquim Rodriguez (Katusha), who was third on the stage.Apart from Bardet, French hopes took a battering with Thibaut Pinot (FDJ) and Pierre Rolland (Cannondale) losing time; but the highest-profile rider who had a torrid days racing in 36-degree Celsius (about 97-degrees Fahrenheit) heat was Alberto Contador (Tinkoff), 17th at 1:41 and now 20th overall at 3:12.Froomes sense of joy for winning the Pyrenean stage like he did even withstood the possibility of it turning to frustration when asked if it was refreshing that his performance was not linked to questions on controversial issues like motorised doping or physiological data.I have no doubt that people out there have calculated my VAM [the Italian term Velocità Ascensionale Media meaning average ascent speed] going down that climb and saying it has gone off the charts, said Froome, who has faced numerous questions on the legitimacy of his 2013 and 2015 Tour wins. I cant be happier to be back in yellow again. I have never won a stage like that. I really felt I was taking the race on and enjoying it.Froomes win in this second of three stages in the Pyrénées left many who witnessed it agog - not for the fact he won, but that he did so by attacking on the descent when most would have expected him to assert himself on one of the summit finishes.Many suspect the move, made so close to the top of the Col de Peyresourde summit with 18km to go, must have been planned during a training camps. But other than admit he often raced for fun with teammates during those camps, Froome said his attack was spontaneous. But Froomes Sky Team principal, Sir David Brailsford, still left many wondering by saying that intent was to try to agitate the situation and see where we go from there.Froome, who rode with a 54-tooth big chain ring (which indicates he had something planned) certainly put in. My teammates just buried themselves today, from start to finish. He added that the stage was still one of the hardest he had raced in a long time.Froome tried to get away on the Peyresourde, but his rivals quickly closed his move down. So I gave it one more go on the top of the ascent, Froome said. I am glad I took that risk. I didnt take a massive gap, but I am in yellow again and that is a massive surprise.Froome denied his move to win on a descent means he has focused on descending this year.Not necessarily. We are focused more on the mountaintop finishes, Froome said. It was a spur of the moment reaction going over the top. Looking ahead we did have some really hard mountain top finishes to come. I imagine they will be a lot more selective than today.Quintana, sixth overall at 23 seconds and runner-up to Froome in 2013 and 2015, said he was still caught out by Froome.I was reaching over for a water bottle to refresh myself, and Froome took advantage of this moment to attack, Quintana said. He went down, got away from us, and took some seconds on all of us. I hope its not decisive. I thought we could catch him on the descent, and Alejandro [Valverde], but it wasnt enough. Today was harder than we expected. On the last part, I let my guard down.Van Garderen, eighth overall and also at 23 seconds to Froome, concurred with Quintana.It started out with Sky just making their usual tempo, van Garderen said. I think Valverde was the one that started opening up the attacks. ... It looked like it was all together over the top, but then Froome put in one last sneak attack right at the top there and I was thinking, Oh well. Its a long way to go downhill. If we roll ... thats kind of a bold move.But you never underestimate Froome. 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