On the Trophée Haute Maurienne Vanoise, the 2010 champion took the lead of the general rankings. Marc Tercier dug a gap of a quarter of an hour on his pursuer Argentinian Andres Pato Geron, running dogs from Fabrizio Lovati. The Swiss, who led the overall rankings of the Trophée Grande Odyssée, when he started from the last stage, finally took the third place only after a difficult final stage during which he had to load a tired dog in his sled. Thus, he knows that nothing is won yet. Behind him, the 2011 champion, Antoine Lemoine, who participated with him in the Trophée Grande Odyssée, currently holds the fourth place. Although his dogs are tired after 5 days of race, they should have time to recover by tomorrow 15:00 and if he can, Lemoine will try to get on the podium. There's less than 5 minutes between the second and the fourth team. They are still four to pretend to a place on the podium: the Swiss Marc Tercier, who remains the favorite, Andres Pato Geron from Argentina and the Frenchies Stéphane Lépine and Antoine Lemoine. Everything will be decided during the last stage that leaves Bessans in a mass start to Lanslevillard after 52 km.