PARIS: Spain''s Carlos Sastre took the yellow jersey after winning the final alpine stage of the Tour de France but Cadel Evans is favourite for overall victory.

Sastre made his surprise move on the famous L''Alpe-d''Huez and powered on to grab the overall lead from his CSC teammate Frank Schleck of Luxembourg.

He leads Schleck by one minute and 24 seconds, with Evans 10 seconds back.

But Evans is expected to make up the lost time during Saturday''s time trial in the penultimate stage of the Tour.

Austria''s Bernhard Kohl is one second ahead of Evans in third place but Denis Menchov, who lies a minute and five seconds behind the Australian in fifth still dangerous.