Rest Day Round-Up

Contador v Dekker
This tour does look set to be Contador versus Dekker. The mountains come soon.

Flat tougher than seems

The long flat rated stages have been tough on the team, with only Millar and Contador regularly feeling strong and not drifting backwards a little. But at least Anton, Perez and Lloyd are better in the mountains.

Classifications


1 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 36h12'48
2 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 40
3 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 3'31
4 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'37
5 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA + 3'38
6 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
7 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 3'40
8 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 3'43
9 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3'47
10 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 3'48
11 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 4'13
12 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC + 4'17
13 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 4'27
14 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK + 4'53
15 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 8'35
27 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 13'39
28 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 14'19
32 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 14'49
66 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 24'47
88 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 34'24
132 Chris Hoy DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 47'09
138 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 48'03


1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 158
2 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 145
3 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 139
4 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 135
5 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS 123
6 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL 123
7 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 105
8 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 103
9 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE 82
10 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA 75
15 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 60
18 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 50
43 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 23
90 Chris Hoy DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 3
93 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 2


David Millar intends to target this for the rest of the race
1 Rémy Di Gregorio DISCOVERY CHANNEL 62
2 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA 52
3 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 49
4 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 48
5 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL 44
6 Robert Gesink RABOBANK 42
7 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 40
8 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC 34
9 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 32
10 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL 30
38 Evan Oliphant DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 3




Transfers

Incoming
After Bradley Wiggins, and Mikhail Ignatiev, the currently-injured Cadel Evans become the 3rd rider to confirm that he will ride for DFL Cyclingnews next season. The Australian is disillusioned with Rabobank who recently signed Levi Leipheimer and Mauricio Soler, having already got Thomas Dekker, Robert Gesink, and Vladimir Karpets.

Evans, 3rd place in last years Tour, has had a dismal 2008 with 5th in the Vuelta Murcia all to show for it and after only winning the Aussie championships in 2007 will hope that DFL can rejuvenate his career. He is currently recovering from a broken collarbone.

Bernald Sulzberger, DFL's current Australian champion is said to be delighted with the news.

Shock Exit
The DFL management where left shocked and bemused when Roger Hammond announced that he had signed for USA. The move lacks any sense since USA do not enter in any races.

Hammond had been looking around for other teams after DFL refused to offer him the Absolute Leader role which he wanted, insted offering the role of team mate.

T-Mobile
The Tour has shown that T-Mobile have far too many strong sprinters that they are simple unable to organise them well, but this has not prevented them looking to build a super team.

Both Danilo di Luca and Matti Breschel will ride in Magenta next season.

Milram
Milram brought in Steffen Wesemann this season for the cobbled classics but he failed to deliver, so they have tempted Stuart O'Grady away from CSC to join them. Wesemann has been sold to Liquigas.

This all means bad news for Cancellara, who has lost his main helpers on the cobbles.

Other Moves

Martin Mortenson joins CSC from Liquigas while David Arroyo will move from Caisse d'Epargne to Saunier Duval.

More Transfers

We've signed another Aussie! It's Matt Goss! He will join Cadel Evans and Bernard Sulzberger as the 3 Aussies on the team next season.

Meanwhile, Kirchen will move to Liquigas from T-Mobile



Stage 10

Another, dull, boring, flat stage. I just could not be bothered, so simmed it.

1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 3h32'42
2 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
3 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS s.t.
4 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
5 Óscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
6 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 Allan Davis TEAM MILRAM s.t.
8 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
10 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
12 Christopher Sutton COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
13 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
14 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
15 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
16 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
17 Francesco Chicchi UNIBET.COM s.t.
18 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
19 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
20 Robert Förster GEROLSTEINER s.t.
21 Graeme Brown RABOBANK s.t.
22 Robbie McEwen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
23 Olaf Pollack GEROLSTEINER s.t.
24 Alex Rasmussen UNIBET.COM s.t.
25 Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL s.t.
26 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
27 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
28 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
29 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
30 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
31 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
32 Gregory Baugé TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
33 Erik Zabel PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
34 Carlos Eduardo Alzate EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
35 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA s.t.

Let's get some Mountains soon

You've got a nice squad next season already

@Crommy: Ive got a few more targets aswell. Im mainly aiming for decent climbers now since I dont really have a lot of back up as this tour has shown. Anton is aiming at the Vuelta, Perez is in bad form having done the Giro, and Millar is aiming for races after the tour and only has 72 mo anyway.

Dan Lloyd has received a welcome stats boost though




Stage 11

Weve had the boring half of the tour, now its time for things to liven up


Somehow, possibly due to the early sprints, a group of 14 riders got clear. With 5 Cofidis riders including Duque and Farrar. Haussler, Hermans, Eisel and Allan Davis are also there.


Despite not needing to, Duque would attack towards the top. Doing this he won the first 3 mountain spots


On the 4th of 5 climbs though, Heinrich Haussler attacked away adn Cofidis crumbled


But Haussler would not get the KoM points anyway as Efimkin and Simoni charged past at the top


At the foot of the final climb of the day Luis Leon Sanchez launched the attacks


Janez Brajkovic was the strongest rider


He kept his lead over the top and heading down the other side. Could he keep his lead to the finish?


Yup. Victory for the Slovenian champion.


Efimkin took 2nd and with 3rd place, Contador earned a few more seconds over Dekker


1 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL 5h06'16
2 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 25
3 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
4 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
5 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA s.t.
6 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER s.t.
7 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
8 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK s.t.
9 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
10 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
11 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
12 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
13 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1'35
14 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'48
15 Theo Eltink SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
16 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC + 4'45
17 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC s.t.
18 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK s.t.
19 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
20 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
21 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
22 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
23 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
24 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA s.t.
25 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
26 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE s.t.
27 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA s.t.
28 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
29 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
30 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
31 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
32 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
33 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
34 Michael Rasmussen DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
35 Rémy Di Gregorio DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
36 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
37 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
38 Cândido Barbosa EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
39 Pierrick Fédrigo CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
40 Maxim Belkov TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
41 Robert Gesink RABOBANK s.t.
42 Jorge Azanza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
43 Juan Miguel Mercado AGRITUBEL s.t.
44 Stefano Barberi QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
45 Yannick Martinez AGRITUBEL s.t.
46 Marco Marzano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
47 David Blanco RABOBANK s.t.
48 Kevin Seeldraeyers QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
49 Carlos Barredo RABOBANK s.t.
50 Héctor Guerra CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.

GC
1 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 44h52'03
2 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 48
3 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'01
4 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 3'39
5 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 3'45
6 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA + 3'46
7 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 3'48
8 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 3'51
9 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 4'09
10 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 4'35
11 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 5'05
12 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 6'19
13 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 8'43
14 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC + 8'45
15 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK + 9'21
26 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 18'07
31 David Millar DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 19'17
32 Fran Pérez DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 19'22
58 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 29'15

Points
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 193
2 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 161
3 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 159
4 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 157
5 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS 149
6 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL 133
7 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 122
8 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 110
9 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA 97
10 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 87
11 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 86

KoM
1 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 77
2 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 71
3 Rémy Di Gregorio DISCOVERY CHANNEL 62
4 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 58
5 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 57
6 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS 54
7 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL 52
8 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO 52
9 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA 52
10 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 46

is this story going to continue?

SN always takes long breaks, especially during man-game season

Its more to do with exams.

Its quite possible that there wont be another update til mid-June

ok good to know that.
i was hoping it would continue, brilliant story

This is a busy time for everyone. In a couple months this site will be even more active.

Now this is what you call commited to the cause!!

It's great that this awesome story will continue.

Nice squad you got for next year!

I have been told that Contador does not have any difficulties to win TDF from 2010. We may expect a victory of him right now.
Good to see this story, keep on doing it. When will you get back, SportingNonsense?

Stage 12



Turpin, Kolesnikov, Buffaz, Feillu and Lorenzetto were the breakaway. Turpin won the first KoM points.


And on the 2nd climb, Turpin rode away from the other 4. He would go on to take first at the 3rd climb aswell.


But on the fourth climb, Turpin struggled and fell behind his companions as Feillu took the points.


Buffaz would have done enough to take the KoM jersey over from teammate Duque if it werent for a certain Dutchman who attacked near the top and worked a small gap on the descent: Dekker


He seemed determined to stay ahead, managing to evade the peleton and began to pull away a bit on the small-ish penultimate categorised climb (Which has a slight descent halfway up it). Contador waited until Andy Schleck attacked to counter, and although disrupted by that small descent, the pair got a minute over the peleton and came close to Dekker.


But Dekker managed to keep a small gap over the duo that rose from 20 to fluctuating between 35 and 40 seconds. It stayed that way over this climb, down the descent and then all the way up the summit climb up to Grand Ballon


Dekker begins to fade as the finish draws nearer and the gap begins to lower


He does enough for victory but it is a satisfactory result for Contador as there ended up being no time gap - so Dekker only gained 8 seconds through time bonuses.


1 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 6h13'10
2 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
4 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'33
5 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
6 Theo Eltink SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2'20
7 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
8 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
9 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA s.t.
10 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'37
11 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK s.t.
12 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC + 2'52
13 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 3'12
14 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 4'19
15 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
17 Robert Gesink RABOBANK s.t.
18 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
19 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
20 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS s.t.
21 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA s.t.
22 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 6'39
23 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 6'46
24 Tom Danielson DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
25 Samuel Sánchez TEAM ASTANA s.t.
26 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT s.t.
27 Julián Rodas TEAM ASTANA s.t.
28 Rémy Di Gregorio DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
29 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
30 Michael Rasmussen DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
31 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
32 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 7'15
33 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 7'23
34 Cândido Barbosa EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 7'35
35 Andriy Grivko FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 7'57
36 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
37 George Hincapie DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
38 Steve Zampieri COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE + 8'34
39 Kevin Seeldraeyers QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
40 Juan Miguel Mercado AGRITUBEL + 8'50
41 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
42 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS + 9'12
43 Christophe Moreau CRÉDIT AGRICOLE + 9'52
44 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
45 José Rujano DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 10'29
46 John Devine DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
47 Daniel Lloyd DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 10'47
48 Yannick Talabardon SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
49 Jorge Azanza EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 11'11
50 Iñigo Landaluze EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 11'44

GC
1 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 51h05'01
2 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 40
3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 3'52
4 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 4'46
5 Andreas Klöden LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 5'24
6 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 6'17
7 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA + 6'18
8 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 7'07
9 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 8'22
10 Linus Gerdemann QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8'29
11 Vladimir Efimkin PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 8'40
12 Denis Menchov LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 9'08
13 José Angel Gómez Marchante TEAM CSC + 11'49
14 Vladimir Karpets RABOBANK + 12'10
15 Roman Kreuziger LIQUIGAS + 13'14
16 Luis León Sánchez CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 16'51
17 Theo Eltink SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 17'36
18 Robert Gesink RABOBANK + 18'47
19 Vladimir Gusev DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 18'56
20 Maxim Iglinskiy TEAM ASTANA + 21'50
21 Jurgen Van den Broeck PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 23'38
22 Jaume Rovira TEAM WIESENHOF FELT + 24'17
23 John Gadret AG2R PRÉVOYANCE + 24'57
24 Igor Antón DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED + 25'05
25 Sébastien Joly FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 25'07

Points
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 193
2 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 161
3 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 159
4 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 157
5 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS 149
6 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL 133
7 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 122
8 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 110
9 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 107
10 Yaroslav Popovych TEAM ASTANA 104
11 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 103

KoM
1 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 123
2 Mickael Buffaz COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 107
3 Alberto Contador DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED 99
4 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 89
5 Ludovic Turpin AG2R PRÉVOYANCE 87
6 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 80
7 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 77
8 Sergei Kolesnikov UNIBET.COM 71
9 Romain Feillu AGRITUBEL 69
10 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL 66

Good stuff its getting close, good luck

You know whats also getting close? The 55km mainly flat ITT where I expect Dekker to take the Maillot Jaune in

Stage 13

A 14 man break went clear including Evan Oliphant


But the sprinters were still hungry and they were caught. Stevic was well placed


But Ciolek won ... just.


1 Gerald Ciolek T-MOBILE TEAM 4h37'27
2 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
3 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
4 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
5 Ivan Stevic DFL - CYCLINGNEWS - LITESPEED s.t.
6 Fran Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
7 Óscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
8 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
9 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS s.t.
10 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
11 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
12 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
13 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
14 William Bonnet CRÉDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
15 Robert Förster GEROLSTEINER s.t.
16 Christopher Sutton COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
17 Allan Davis TEAM MILRAM s.t.
18 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
19 José Joaquín Rojas CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
20 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
21 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE s.t.
22 Sébastien Chavanel FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
23 Alex Rasmussen UNIBET.COM s.t.
24 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
25 Mirko Lorenzetto TEAM MILRAM s.t.

Points
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 217
2 Thor Hushovd CRÉDIT AGRICOLE 185
3 Óscar Freire RABOBANK 180
4 Enrico Gasparotto LIQUIGAS 166
5 Tyler Farrar COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 162
6 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL 139
7 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 130
8 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS, LE CRÉDIT PAR TÉLÉPHONE 124
9 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 116
10 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK 107

it lives

Awesome, I had resigned myself to a month without updates.

Oh Ciolek, pretty close, good luck for the TT