Eladio Jimenez wins 6 stage from Volta a Portugal

1.º Eladio Jiménez (CC Loulé-Louletano-Aquashow), 4:21'09'' (40,1 km/h)
2.º Ruben Plaza (Liberty Seguros), a 12''
3.º David Blanco (Palmeiras Resort-PRI), a 14''
4.º Paolo Tiralongo (Lampre-NGC), st
5.º Nuno Ribeiro (Liberty Seguros), st
6.º Virgílio Santos (L.A. - Rota dos Movéis), a 17''
7.º Constantino Zaballa (L.A. - Rota dos Movéis), st
8.º Tiago Machado (Madeinox-Boavista), st
9.º João Cabreira (C.C.Loulé-Louletano), st
10.º Patrik Sinkewitz (PSK Whirlpool-Author), a 22''

GC:
1.º Nuno Ribeiro (Liberty Seguros), 27:43'39''
2.º João Cabreira (CC Loulé-Louletano-Aquashow), a 7''
3.º David Bernabeu (Barbot-Siper), a 57''
4.º Patrik Sinkewitz (PSK Whirlpool-Author), a 1'32''
5.º André Cardoso (Palmeiras Resort-Prio-Tavira), a 1'32''
6.º David Blanco (Palmeiras Resort-Prio-Tavira), a 1'47''
7.º Nelson Vitorino (Palmeiras Resort-Prio-Tavira), a 1'49''
8.º Eladio Jiménez (CC Loulé-Louletano-Aquashow), a 1'53''
9.º Rubén Plaza (Liberty Seguros), a 1'54''
10.º Virgílio Santos (LA-Paredes Rota dos Móveis), a 2'06''

Well Rein Taaramae won today's stage and the overall at the Tour de l'Ain.

Stage

1 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 3:36:58
2 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:00:30
3 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:00:34
4 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana 0:00:37
5 Maxime Mederel (Fra) Auber 93 0:00:39
6 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) BBox Bouygues Telecom 0:00:59
7 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel 0:01:06
8 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:01:07
9 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana
10 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Agritubel 0:01:14

Overall

1 Rein Taaramae (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 13:03:07
2 Christopher Horner (USA) Astana 0:00:25
3 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:00:32
4 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit En Ligne 0:01:08
5 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Agritubel 0:01:50
6 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 0:02:30
7 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 0:03:16
8 John Gadret (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:03:33
9 Daniel Navarro (Spa) Astana 0:03:49
10 Hubert Dupont (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0:04:15

Wow Cunego lost 3 mins good ride
Was it a mountainous stage?

No..... Only Last 6km was a climb with 5,8%

....(long pause)...

I was a little worried when Rein lost 30 sec in tt but it seems that he has sacrificed some tt form to be a better climber.

Looks like he is ready for he's first GT..possible Vuekta starter. I dont expect nothing..but it is nice to see how can he take GT..
Vuelta is best place to start..himself he told at the spring that GT is just to much for him..he is at the moment max. 6 day tour rider..will see.

Funny, a few days ago I said Taaramae will win the GC, but I thought he would do it in the TT. Now he does it in the final mountain stage. Still I predicted the winner right

He is a good rider, and will become better in the future, but he was totally exhausted after that one climb when giving it his all and considering he nly took around 30 seconds :/, but still a good ride by him. https://jt.france3...=b69a_1920
watch at 12:10.

He is more and more changed from TT rider to climber..

After race comment..: Boss send me few days ago message.. with win you will get nice bonus.

You are better then Moncoutie?...No..not even close yet. Moncoutie is "lonely wolf"..he takes small pay check..and will get liberty to race how he likes..

one more year in Cofidis?...Yep team has been nice..dont have pushed to race all the time. They know and accept that my time is ahead.

Condition is ready for Vuelta

Horner states on his Twitter that he was fine until 3k to go where the "vacation" he took during Tour hurt him.

Ready for Vuelta, I think he will do decently.

TTer to Climber just like Wiggins. Where's the outrage? Where are the usual doubters?

Never heard of him, and Tour of Portugal? Hmm

Yeah, Monier 3rd was crazy. He used to be an average tt-er but now he can climb. I would like to see what happened, can anyone tell me where i can find a video of the last climb.

It happens like that all the time. Take Stef Clement, ok he was awfull in the Tour (had his peak in Dauphine), but in Dauphine he was 13th and apart from the long flight everytime a decent climber (top 20). Where he used to finish in the bus the years before.

A lot of tt-ers (not the Grabsch ones, but the smaller built ones) have the ability to climb when they really focus on it

What the hell happened in Portugal? About 50 riders went a totally wrong way? Does someone know what happened exactly?

Well that's something that happens often in our home Tour. Every year we see riders following wrong trajectories in roundabouts, dangerous turns in sprint-finishing stages and stuff like that... Last year we even saw the whole peloton riding their way back because the directeur's car took the wrong way

Anyway I didnt see the whole stage so I'm not aware of what happened in the final 35kms

It was awesome, they had to go between spectators who were shocked and through tents.
Btw Hondo won with a huge gap of 3-4 bike lengths in front of Barbosa.

does anyone know where i can find highlights of the volta a portugal 2009? so far i've only caught the RTP1 Live coverage of etapa 8

The stages this year were too hard for Petacchi and the other sprinters. Only the best climbing sprinters like Manuel Cardoso were able to hang on.

Chuzhda won the flattest stage in a breakaway.

Tomorrow....whatever you do, be sure not to miss the stage.