Today's break consists of Scanlon, Mayo, Rodriguez, Gudsell, Fabbri, Savoldelli and Hutchings



But with 20km left, they were caught



Here is the positioning as the sprint begins



Hushovd opens up...



...And he takes the win! And the leader's jersey! And the points jersey!



Stage:

1	Thor Hushovd	FESTINA	3h36'13
2	Danilo Napolitano	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
3	Aleksandr Serebriakov	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
4	Crescenzo D'Amore	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
5	Francesco Chicchi	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
6	Borut Bozic	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
7	Alberto Loddo	ERSTE	s.t.
8	Theo Bos	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
9	Wouter Weylandt	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
10	Alessandro Petacchi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
11	Murilo Fischer	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
12	Juan José Haedo	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
13	Alex Rasmussen	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
14	William Bonnet	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
15	Gerald Ciolek	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
16	Aurélien Clerc	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
17	Assan Bazajev	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
18	Eric Baumann	CARLSBERG	s.t.
19	Leonardo Duque	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
20	Robert Hunter	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
21	Fabio Sabatini	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
22	Michael Mørkøv	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
23	Peter Wrolich	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
24	Saulo Lay	ERSTE	s.t.
25	Juan Pablo Forero	ERSTE	s.t.
26	Eros Capecchi	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
27	Kevin Van Impe	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
28	Alexandre Aulas	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
29	Sebastian Langeveld	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
30	Luciano Pagliarini	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
31	Sergei Klimov	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
32	Anthony Lavoine	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
33	Kirk O'Bee	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
34	Benoît Vaugrenard	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
35	Bruno Neves	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
36	Joseph Cooper	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
37	Maxime Vantomme	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
38	Jurgen Van Loocke	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
39	Angelo Furlan	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
40	Koldo Fernandez	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
41	Michael Schär	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
42	Jan Ghyselinck	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
43	Patrick Gretsch	FESTINA	s.t.
44	Clément Lhotellerie	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
45	Serge Pauwels	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
46	Brad Huff	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
47	Freddy Johansson	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
48	Kasper Klostergaard	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
49	David Millar	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
50	Tim Dees	FESTINA	s.t.
51	Christian Poos	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
52	Kenny De Haes	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
53	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
54	Alexandre Botcharov	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
55	Anders Lund	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
56	Przemyslaw Niemiec	ERSTE	s.t.
57	Martin Mortensen	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
58	Jürgen Van de Walle	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
59	Anthony Roux	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
60	Mike Friedman	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
61	László Bodrogi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
62	Rafaâ Chtioui	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
63	Ian Stannard	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
64	Dario Cataldo	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
65	Bert Roesems	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
66	Cesare Di Maggio	ERSTE	s.t.
67	Nick Clesen	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
68	Jason Donald	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
69	Steven Cozza	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
70	Matthé Pronk	EUROSPORT	s.t.
71	Jordi Grau	FESTINA	s.t.
72	Viktor Renäng	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
73	Victor Hugo Peña	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
74	Alexander Giraldo	ERSTE	s.t.
75	Mikhail Bourgoin	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
76	Stef Clement	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
77	Nicki Sørensen	CARLSBERG	s.t.
78	Luigi Sestili	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
79	Kenny De Ketele	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
80	Rafael Rodríguez Segarra	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
81	Rick Flens	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
82	Michael Barry	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
83	Anthony Geslin	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
84	Tom Stubbe	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
85	Sergio Ortega	FESTINA	s.t.
86	Sebastian Lang	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
87	Ramunas Navardauskas	FESTINA	s.t.
88	Timothy Duggan	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
89	Marcel Barth	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
90	Fabien Taillefour	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
91	Yasmani Martinez	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
92	Hector Guerra	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
93	Frederik Nolf	FESTINA	s.t.
94	Michael Ford	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
95	Tom Zirbel	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
96	Emanuele Rizza	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
97	Ismaël Kip	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
98	Sébastien Ivars	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
99	Danny Pate	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
100	Bradley McGee	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
101	Matthieu Ladagnous	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
102	David George	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
103	Rik Verbrugghe	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
104	Jérôme Pineau	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
105	Adil Jelloul	CARLSBERG	s.t.
106	Matthieu Sprick	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
107	Dimitri Champion	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
108	Piotr Mazur	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
109	Marcel Sieberg	CARLSBERG	s.t.
110	Trent Lowe	CARLSBERG	s.t.
111	Tejay Van Garderen	CARLSBERG	s.t.
112	Adrian Laidler	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
113	Marc Machado	CARLSBERG	s.t.
114	Aleksandr Arekejev	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
115	Giovanni Visconti	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
116	Sébastien Rosseler	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
117	Koen De Kort	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
118	Juan-Antonio Flecha	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
119	Michail Ignatiev	ERSTE	s.t.
120	Dennis Van Winden	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
121	Francesco Gavazzi	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
122	Joost Posthuma	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
123	Martin Elmiger	EUROSPORT	+ 2'54
124	Boy Van Poppel	EUROSPORT	s.t.
125	Sébastien Joly	EUROSPORT	s.t.
126	Mark Scanlon	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
127	Philip Deignan	EUROSPORT	s.t.
128	Iban Mayo	EUROSPORT	s.t.
129	Logan Hutchings	ERSTE	s.t.
130	Paolo Savoldelli	CARLSBERG	s.t.
131	Marco Fabbri	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
132	Fred Rodriguez	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
133	Blake Caldwell	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
134	Timothy Gudsell	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
135	Horácio Mesquita	FERCASE - ROTA DOS MÓVEIS	+ 4'46
136	Chris Wherry	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 5'34
137	Rubén Darío Laverde Velez	FESTINA	+ 6'54
138	Josu Irazusta	THE CONTROL TEAM	+ 11'34

General Classification:

1	Thor Hushovd	FESTINA	12h59'47
2	Juan José Haedo	SLIPSTREAM	+ 3
3	Aleksandr Serebriakov	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 16
4	Nick Clesen	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 18
5	Danilo Napolitano	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 19
6	Robert Hunter	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
7	Christian Poos	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
8	David Millar	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
9	Rafaâ Chtioui	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
10	Marcel Barth	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
11	Piotr Mazur	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	s.t.
12	Patrick Gretsch	FESTINA	+ 20
13	Tim Dees	FESTINA	s.t.
14	Jordi Grau	FESTINA	s.t.
15	Ramunas Navardauskas	FESTINA	s.t.
16	Sergio Ortega	FESTINA	s.t.
17	Frederik Nolf	FESTINA	s.t.
18	Borut Bozic	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 21
19	William Bonnet	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
20	Dario Cataldo	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
21	Luigi Sestili	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
22	Fabien Taillefour	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
23	Adrian Laidler	CREDIT LYONNAIS	s.t.
24	Rick Flens	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 22
25	Timothy Duggan	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
26	Alessandro Petacchi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 23
27	Brad Huff	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
28	Mike Friedman	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
29	Jason Donald	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
30	Steven Cozza	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
31	Tom Zirbel	SLIPSTREAM	s.t.
32	Eros Capecchi	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	+ 25
33	Jan Ghyselinck	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
34	Michael Schär	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
35	Rafael Rodríguez Segarra	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
36	Michael Ford	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
37	Ismaël Kip	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
38	Rik Verbrugghe	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
39	Adil Jelloul	CARLSBERG	s.t.
40	Aleksandr Arekejev	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
41	Koen De Kort	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
42	Dennis Van Winden	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
43	Francesco Gavazzi	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
44	Joost Posthuma	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	s.t.
45	Danny Pate	WIKIPEDIA	+ 26
46	Eric Baumann	CARLSBERG	+ 27
47	Nicki Sørensen	CARLSBERG	s.t.
48	Tom Stubbe	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
49	Sébastien Ivars	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
50	Yasmani Martinez	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
51	Jérôme Pineau	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
52	Matthieu Sprick	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
53	David George	WIKIPEDIA	s.t.
54	Marcel Sieberg	CARLSBERG	s.t.
55	Tejay Van Garderen	CARLSBERG	s.t.
56	Crescenzo D'Amore	SONY ERICSSON	+ 30
57	Assan Bazajev	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
58	Benoît Vaugrenard	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
59	Freddy Johansson	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
60	Serge Pauwels	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
61	Viktor Renäng	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
62	Sebastian Lang	SONY ERICSSON	s.t.
63	Bradley McGee	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
64	Matthieu Ladagnous	AMERICAN SUZUKI	s.t.
65	Theo Bos	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 31
66	Aurélien Clerc	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
67	Fabio Sabatini	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
68	Luciano Pagliarini	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
69	Kirk O'Bee	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
70	Stef Clement	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
71	Anthony Geslin	NINTENDO - HONDA	s.t.
72	Koldo Fernandez	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 32
73	Ian Stannard	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
74	Matthé Pronk	EUROSPORT	+ 33
75	Wouter Weylandt	WARNER BROTHERS	+ 34
76	Alex Rasmussen	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
77	Kevin Van Impe	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
78	Kevin Seeldraeyers	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
79	Kenny De Haes	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	s.t.
80	Jürgen Van de Walle	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
81	Sébastien Rosseler	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
82	Giovanni Visconti	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
83	Juan-Antonio Flecha	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
84	Alberto Loddo	ERSTE	+ 35
85	Juan Pablo Forero	ERSTE	s.t.
86	Saulo Lay	ERSTE	s.t.
87	Przemyslaw Niemiec	ERSTE	s.t.
88	Cesare Di Maggio	ERSTE	s.t.
89	Alexander Giraldo	ERSTE	s.t.
90	Michail Ignatiev	ERSTE	s.t.
91	Michael Mørkøv	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	+ 39
92	Maxime Vantomme	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
93	Angelo Furlan	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
94	Kasper Klostergaard	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
95	Anders Lund	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
96	László Bodrogi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	s.t.
97	Bruno Neves	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 40
98	Alexandre Aulas	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 41
99	Francesco Chicchi	DOMINA VACANZE	+ 44
100	Murilo Fischer	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
101	Leonardo Duque	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
102	Sergei Klimov	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
103	Joseph Cooper	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
104	Alexandre Botcharov	DOMINA VACANZE	s.t.
105	Gerald Ciolek	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 46
106	Peter Wrolich	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
107	Anthony Lavoine	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
108	Jurgen Van Loocke	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
109	Anthony Roux	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
110	Bert Roesems	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	s.t.
111	Blake Caldwell	SLIPSTREAM	+ 3'17
112	Timothy Gudsell	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 3'18
113	Paolo Savoldelli	CARLSBERG	+ 3'21
114	Victor Hugo Peña	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	s.t.
115	Marco Fabbri	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 3'23
116	Sébastien Joly	EUROSPORT	+ 3'25
117	Kenny De Ketele	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 3'26
118	Mark Scanlon	WARNER BROTHERS	s.t.
119	Martin Elmiger	EUROSPORT	+ 3'27
120	Boy Van Poppel	EUROSPORT	s.t.
121	Iban Mayo	EUROSPORT	s.t.
122	Philip Deignan	EUROSPORT	s.t.
123	Logan Hutchings	ERSTE	+ 3'29
124	Sebastian Langeveld	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	+ 3'30
125	Hector Guerra	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	+ 4'41
126	Mikhail Bourgoin	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	+ 5'16
127	Clément Lhotellerie	NINTENDO - HONDA	+ 5'20
128	Chris Wherry	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 6'04
129	Marc Machado	CARLSBERG	+ 6'25
130	Fred Rodriguez	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	+ 6'34
131	Trent Lowe	CARLSBERG	+ 6'49
132	Rubén Darío Laverde Velez	FESTINA	+ 7'14
133	Dimitri Champion	CREDIT LYONNAIS	+ 10'11
134	Martin Mortensen	SONY ERICSSON	+ 10'18
135	Emanuele Rizza	AMERICAN SUZUKI	+ 12'13
136	Michael Barry	WIKIPEDIA	+ 14'33
137	Horácio Mesquita	FERCASE - ROTA DOS MÓVEIS	+ 15'37
138	Josu Irazusta	THE CONTROL TEAM	+ 33'35

Points:

1	Thor Hushovd	FESTINA	30	99
2	Alessandro Petacchi	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	11	91
3	Juan José Haedo	SLIPSTREAM	9	91
4	Danilo Napolitano	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	27	84
5	Aleksandr Serebriakov	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	25	80
6	Wouter Weylandt	WARNER BROTHERS	13	65
7	Francesco Chicchi	DOMINA VACANZE	21	64
8	Gerald Ciolek	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	6	57
9	Theo Bos	NINTENDO - HONDA	15	53
10	Alberto Loddo	ERSTE	17	43
11	Crescenzo D'Amore	SONY ERICSSON	23	38
12	Murilo Fischer	DOMINA VACANZE	10	38
13	Angelo Furlan	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	0	28
14	Borut Bozic	CREDIT LYONNAIS	19	26
15	Marco Fabbri	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	5	24
16	Aurélien Clerc	NINTENDO - HONDA	5	24
17	Koldo Fernandez	DOMINA VACANZE	0	14
18	Leonardo Duque	DOMINA VACANZE	2	12
19	Juan Pablo Forero	ERSTE	0	12
20	Robert Hunter	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	1	10
21	Eros Capecchi	FRANCE TELEVISIONS	0	10
22	Alexandre Aulas	DOMINA VACANZE	0	10
23	Alex Rasmussen	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	8	9
24	Luciano Pagliarini	NINTENDO - HONDA	0	9
25	Maxime Vantomme	PHILIPS - HUMMEL	0	8
26	Anthony Lavoine	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	0	7
27	Peter Wrolich	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	0	7
28	William Bonnet	CREDIT LYONNAIS	7	7
29	Fred Rodriguez	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	2	6
30	Timothy Gudsell	AMERICAN SUZUKI	5	6
31	Brad Huff	SLIPSTREAM	0	6
32	Bruno Neves	MAGENTA ALL-STARS	0	6
33	Kevin Van Impe	WARNER BROTHERS	0	6
34	Assan Bazajev	SONY ERICSSON	4	4
35	Mark Scanlon	WARNER BROTHERS	0	3
36	Rick Flens	LA GAZETTA DELLO SPORT	0	3
37	Eric Baumann	CARLSBERG	3	3
38	Sébastien Joly	EUROSPORT	0	2
39	Adil Jelloul	CARLSBERG	0	2
40	Ian Stannard	VIRGIN MEDIA - CAISSE D'EPARGNE	0	2
41	Timothy Duggan	SLIPSTREAM	0	1
42	Nick Clesen	ACCUMALUX - FORMEX	0	1
43	Danny Pate	WIKIPEDIA	0	1