Sastre is looking good, if you compare his TT skills to Kloden, Contador, Leipheimer and Valverde... he should be the man to beat of course thats only because of his great managers, Riis will never be able to get him so good
But seriously Guido did his Predictor story and the imporvement is quite impressive. It was an awesome story too.
Nice win and excellent start for CSC and Levi. I like his chances for the podium. Knowing A_Schleck my podium is: Sastre, Levi, Kloden. Kloden might be riding to good to soon.
Camenzind wrote:
Great presentation of the Tour! The video is beautiful!
Very good also the description of the 1st stage!
I've read all the story now, it's terific, great!
PS. Sorry for my english, I'm italian ops:
Let me just point out that it's Crommy's video and not mine, just in case someone didn't know.
Levi4life wrote:
your English isn't as bad as Guidos
But seriously Guido did his Predictor story and the imporvement is quite impressive. It was an awesome story too.
Nice win and excellent start for CSC and Levi. I like his chances for the podium. Knowing A_Schleck my podium is: Sastre, Levi, Kloden. Kloden might be riding to good to soon.
I hope you're right, but as this is my first ever Grand Tour on hard, It'll be very difficult to win it.
July 8:Le Tour de France | Londres > Canterbury – 203 km
Stage Profile
We’re still in England, but this will be the last 203 kilometres on British soil this time around. Judging from the profile we should have a mass sprint finish today and eventhough a lot of riders will try to get away, the pace of the pack will be so crazy today, that no one will be able to stay clear all day for sure. The sprinter teams are full on energy, so no doubt it’ll come down to a sprint. All the big sprinters are present: Tom Boonen, Robbie McEwen, Danilo Napolitano and Daniele Bennati (who also rode as Lampre’s dynamic duo in the Giro), Heinrich Haussler, Erik Zabel and Thor Hushovd, who must be a little dissapointed that he couldn’t duplicate on last year’s prologue win.
The peloton went a little sightseeing on Tower Bridge before leaving London for good, with the prospect of 3000 kilometres ahead of them.
After unstoppable attacking a group finally settled and got away after almost 50 kilometres of racing. It was a six man group consisting of Fischer (LIQ), Geslin (BTL), Guesdon (FDJ), Dumoulin (A2R), Høj (COF) and Coyot (UNI). Being the owner of the yellow jersey we had an unwritten obligation to dictate the pace in the pack, but all we had to do was to keep the speed steady and wait for the sprinter teams to take over. They would logically need to do so if they wanted their sprinter to come out on top in Canterbury.
A group of six got away after a lot of attacking on the first part of the stage. Being the leaders CSC took charge in the pack.
With a 110 kilometres to go the gap had grown to 11 minutes, but then Milram and Lampre took over. Later Quickstep would also contribute, but we didn’t see much of McEwen’s Predictor team. Just as predicted the pack became crazy and Iñigo Cuesta began hurting from way out, but he would cling on so far. The chase would be incredibly fast and already 60 kilometres later the gap was down to just 2 minutes! This pace was definitely going to cost for someone.
Three of the big four took part in the chase, as Predictor apparently didn’t feel like working a whole lot. Surely their opponent teams will frown on this.
From here the sprinter teams began letting up a bit as they realised the pace was a bit to high for the liking of some and there were no reason in reeling the break in with 40 kilometres ago, because then new breaks would occur. But already with 30 kilometres later the last breakaway riders, Høj and Guesdon were reeled in. With about 20 kilometres to the pack would have to climb a very short but steep climb and we feared a bit for Haedo here, as he is very weak on any type of gradient. He did hurt some getting over, but we though he was going to be okay. That was until he locked himself into Fabian’s wheel, who would lead him out today. With about 5 kilometres to go he had to let go, but he tried to stay up there still.
There were two trains set up for the sprint, both in the right side of the road. On the far side it was Rodriquez-McEwen-Davis-Eisel-Haussler-Boonen-Napolitano-Zabel. Between them and the train relaying we had another train with Zanotti-Freire-Reynes-Hushovd-Elmiger-Steegmans. The Rodriquez train was the strongest and it was the guys here who would fight it out. Rodriquez set up McEwen nicely, but maybe the Aussie isn’t quite a his best because he had some serious problems getting out of the American’s wheel and past him. Haussler took advantage of McEwen’s hesitation to fire out of Davis’ wheel and move past the two Predictor riders and Davis, on the inside with Tom Boonen in his wheel.
McEwen was in a great position but he had some problems getting past his lead-out man and Haussler capitalized.
Haussler seemed strong, but he would have to be if he was to keep Boonen behind him. Davis had also had enough McEwen as he also decided to take off and he would gain on Haussler and Boonen. But it was too late and this was to be settled between these two riders. Haussler went very fast but Boonen was in a great position and when he finally made his move on the last part of the home stretch there were no doubt who would win. Tom Boonen flew out of Haussler’s wheel to grab an impressive win and to start off his Tour the best way imagineable. Cancellara took part in the sprint and finished 10th.
Tommekke was the fastest today as he used his great positioning to triupmh on this historic Tour date, ahead of Haussler and Davis.
Cancellara was presented with his seconds yellow jersey of the race aswell as Boonen was given the green jersey and a standing ovation for his great win, by the British spectators.
The pace cost today for Cuesta as he couldn’t keep up all the way and he lost quite a lot of time. But it doesn’t really matter as Cuesta has nothing to do in the GC in this race anyway. Samuel Dumoulin of AG2R would today claim the first polka dot jersey of the Tour, while Fabian retained his lead in the GC and Boonen took over the green jersey. Sastre finished safely, so a pretty good and quite day for us.
Le Tour de France – Stage 1 | Result
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 4h39'01
2 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
3 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
4 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
5 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM s.t.
6 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
7 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
8 Oscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
9 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t. 10 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
11 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
12 Vicente Reynès CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
13 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
14 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
15 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
16 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM s.t.
17 Luca Paolini LIQUIGAS s.t.
18 Koldo Fernandez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
19 Baden Cooke UNIBET.COM s.t.
20 Peter Wrölich GEROLSTEINER s.t. 22 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
60 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
62 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
77 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC s.t.
85 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
144 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC s.t.
154 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC s.t.
173 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 3'49
Le Tour de France – Prologue | GC
1 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 4h48'54
2 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 5
3 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 13
4 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 14 5 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Thomas Dekker RABOBANK + 16
7 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA s.t.
8 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 17
9 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 18
10 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 19
11 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 21
12 Linus Gerdemann T-MOBILE TEAM + 22
13 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t. 14 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 24
15 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 25 16 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 26
17 Benoit Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
18 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
19 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 28
20 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t. 23 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
25 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 30
26 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 31
29 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 32
38 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 37 49 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 42
62 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 46
151 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 1'19
169 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 4'36
Le Tour de France – Stage 1 | Points Competition
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 35
2 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 31
3 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL 30
4 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 26
5 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 24
6 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM 22
7 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 20
8 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE 19
9 Oscar Freire RABOBANK 18
10 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO 17
Le Tour de France – Stage 1 | King of the Mountains Competition
1 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 8
2 Frederic Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 5
3 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM 5
4 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS 4
5 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE 3
6 Frank Hoj COFIDIS 1
7 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM 1
Tom Boonen took the stage and the green jersey while Cancellara retained his GC lead.
July 9:Le Tour de France – Stage 2 | Dunkurque > Gent – 168,5 km
Stage Profile
We are finally in France, but at the end of the day we will be in Gent in Belgium, so not until tomorrow will we see a finish on French soil. Tom Boonen will definitely be looking to duplicate on his win yesterday as the finish will be on home turf for him today. The pace was crazy yesterday so we hope that Milram, Quickstep and Lampre will let up a bit today otherwise we might see Cuesta falling off the back again.
Fabian currently have a good lead over the sprinters in the GC, so he will be looking to retain his yellow jersey at least for another day.
Today’s TV break consisted of Bodrogi, Lang, Petito, Schierlinckx, Elmiger, Zanini, Mengin and Ivanov. Their gap topped at 9 minutes with just over 90 kilometres to go, so Milram, Quickstep and Lampre are in total control and Fabian looks set for another day in yellow. Boonen will get close however if he is to win today. He’s only 25 seconds behind in the GC and a win would gain him 20 seconds, meaning he would only be 5 seconds behind Fabian. So if Boonen does win today then I don’t think Fabian will be the leader on stage 4.
The break was reeled in with about 15 kilometres to go, meaning Fabian would keep the yellow if he stayed with the pack all the way into Gent.
Because of today’s very flat course Haedo was looking significantly better than he was yesterday, so it was same mission template in the sprint for us today. Cancellara moved Haedo to the front of the pack, where he locked himself in on Rodriquez’ wheel before McEwen could. Strangely enough Rodriquez didn’t seem to care as he just kept on going with Fabian and Haedo in his wheel, providing for a very good lead-out.
In the left side of the road we had a train with Rodriquez – Cancellara – Haedo – McEwen – Freire. On the right, slightly ahead, was the Sacchi – Zabel – Boonen – Napolitano – Eisel – Hushovd – Davis train. On the far right, right of the Sacchi train, Valverde came soloing all the way to the front and he actually led when the sprint began.
Alejandro Valverde must feel very confident as he decided to take part in the mass sprint today, setting himself up perfectly.
But Valverde isn’t fast enough compared to these guys and Sacchi would fly right past him, with the Rodrqiuez train following. Sacchi was the strongest though and his train was going to fight it out today. Zabel came out of his wheel a bit early with Boonen locked in on him. It was again perfect positioning from Boonen who took off easily from Zabel’s wheel and gained a small gap immediately. Napolitano followed and he gained on Boonen. Meanwhile Haedo was also looking good. He was nearing in on Eisel and Hushovd who were fighting it our for 4th and 5th.
Napolitano were gaining on Boonen but it was far too late as Boonen snatched another impressive win in the sprint, to consolidate his lead in the point competition. Napolitano took 2nd ahead of Zabel, Eisel and Haedo, who just managed to edge past Hushovd.
The former World Champion took a back-to-back win. He has won in England and Belgium, so now he only needs a win in France, which come tomorrow.
The stage turned out very crucial for GC also because of the towering pace throughout the day. Some very big GC contenders had somehow gotten stuck in a part of the pack that was broken off and lost 2’42”. In this big group were for example Levi Leipheimer, Alberto Contador, Linus Gerdemann, Kim Kirchen and Thomas Dekker. So a very very bad day for Discovery as both of their captains lose time on their opponents, which just cannot happen at this point. We only had Cuesta in the group.
Le Tour de France – Stage 2 | Result
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 3h45'16
2 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
3 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM s.t.
4 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t. 5 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
6 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
7 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
8 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
9 Oscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
10 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
11 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
12 Fred Rodriguez PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
13 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
14 Graeme Brown RABOBANK s.t.
15 Baden Cooke UNIBET.COM s.t.
16 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t. 17 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
18 Jeremy Hunt UNIBET.COM s.t.
19 Jimmy Casper UNIBET.COM s.t.
20 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t. 90 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC s.t.
91 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC s.t.
93 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
95 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
96 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC s.t.
137 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC s.t.
166 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 2'42
Le Tour de France – Stage 2 | GC
1 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 8h34'10
2 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 5
3 Andreas Klöden ASTANA s.t.
4 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 13 5 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 14
6 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
7 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA + 16
8 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 18
9 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 19
10 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 21
11 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 22 12 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 24
13 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 26
14 Benoit Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
15 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
16 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 28
17 Sébastien Rosseler QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
18 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 29 19 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
20 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 31
22 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 32
32 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 37 38 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 42
48 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 46
116 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 1'19
127 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'59
131 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'12 168 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 7'18
Le Tour de France – Stage 2 | Points Competition
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 70
2 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL 60
3 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM 48
4 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 44 5 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 40
6 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 39
7 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE 39
8 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 39
9 Oscar Freire RABOBANK 35
10 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM 35 14 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC 26
29 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 8
Le Tour de France – Stage 2 | King of the Mountains Competition
1 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 8
2 Frederic Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 5
3 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM 5
4 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS 4
5 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE 3
6 Frank Hoj COFIDIS 1
7 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM 1
Tommekke took his second straight win in the Tour de France, winning on home turf in Gent.
Curiously both pictures of Boonen winning are from Tours where Cancellara wore yellow
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"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
A_Schleck wrote:
Well that's what I do: Keepin' it real B)
actually Cancellara wasn't in yellow anymore in any of the days those pictures were taken
The preceding post is ISSO 9001 certified
"I love him, I think he's great. He's transformed the sport in so many ways. Every person in cycling has benefitted from Lance Armstrong, perhaps not financially but in some sense" - Bradley Wiggins on Lance Armstrong
July 10:Le Tour de France – Stage 3 | Waregem > Compiègne – 236,5 km
Stage Profile
Today’s the longest stay of the Tour and finally we will see a stage settled in France. Again it’s looking to go down in a mass sprint and Boonen is again top favourite, not only for the stage win but also to take over the yellow jersey, as he has gotten really close to Fabian in the GC. Just 5 seconds seperate them.
Still being in charge, CSC controlled the pack as today’s breakaway got away.
The breakaway consisted of Belohvosciks, Bonnet, Van Bon, Thijs, Etxebarria, Dumoulin, Trussov and Muravyev. The deficit topped at 13 minutes with 130 kilometres to, when Milram, Quickstep and Lampre took the front and upped the pace substantially. Some riders were going to pay again today.
So the gap came down steadily, but then suddenly something crazy happened. Apparently the pack hit a stretch with a strong cross-wind, meaning a large group of some 20 riders would break away from the pack. It was mainly Milram, Lampre and Quickstep guys in this group since they were ones relaying. One guy in particular was worthing noting. It was Tom Boonen! Immediately we moved forward as no other teams would take over. But it was already late when got to the front as this group would quickly gain two minutes on the pack. This was with 70 kilometres to go.
The cross-wind was a factor today as a large group would break away from the pack because of the wind.
This meant hurting for our riders as we had to work very hard and even Fabian, in the yellow jersey, went to the front so he could retain his GC lead. But it didn’t look good. Luckily no GC riders were in the group. This was turning out bad for us, but it went even worse when Voigt crashed with 50 kilometres to go. With the pace that the pack was moving with there was no way Voigt would make it back, so he was going to lose his 5th spot in the GC.
Jens Voigt was fifth in the GC before today and nothing looked like that was going to change before he bit the dust from way out.
We had to cease the hunt with all of our riders except Fabian, who was strong enough to relay still. Luckily we got some help from the other teams and the gap began coming down. This wild persude also caused trouble in the leading group as it began thinning out with about 30 kilometres to go. At this point Boonen had begun relaying and as the remaining riders from the group caught up with the early break with about 25 kilometres to go, Boonen soloed away. At this point he had 1’20” on the pack.
Fabian Cancellara’s lead was endangered by Boonen who wanted to take it over in a quite unusual way for a sprinter.
We had hoped that the gap would come down, but it didn’t. Boonen gained time on the ones relaying in the pack. The outrageous pace had cost dearly for our riders. Cuesta, Vandevelde, Zabriskie, Julich had all be dropped and Voigt was far behind. Not a very good Tour so far for the Americans. We still had our most important riders in the pack fortuneately and they weren’t going to be dropped. But they weren’t going to catch Boonen either who claimed an unbelievable victory, outdistancing the pack by almost 2 minutes. Zabel won the sprint of the pack ahead of Napolitano and Valverde.
Tom Boonen has now won three stages in a row and on top of that he is the holder of the yellow and the green jersey.
I think I know now why Boonen wasn’t at his best in the cobble classics in April. He must have had Le Tour as his major goal of the season all along, because he is in frightening form and I simply can’t see who should challenge him tomorrow, where he will go for the 4th victory in a row. No big GC contenders lost any time today.
Le Tour de France – Stage 3 | Result
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 5h14'56
2 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM + 1'46
3 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
4 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
5 Jeremy Hunt UNIBET.COM s.t.
6 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
7 Oscar Freire RABOBANK s.t.
8 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER s.t.
9 Steven De Jongh QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
11 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
12 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
13 Baden Cooke UNIBET.COM s.t.
14 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM s.t.
15 Koldo Fernandez EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
16 Gert Steegmans QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
17 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS s.t.
18 Graeme Brown RABOBANK s.t.
19 Leonardo Duque COFIDIS s.t.
20 Philippe Gilbert FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t. 66 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC s.t.
72 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
77 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
80 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
125 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 4'50
162 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 5'18
163 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
182 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 9'04
184 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 9'52
Le Tour de France – Stage 3 | GC
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 13h48'51
2 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC + 2'01
3 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 2'06
4 Vladimir Karpets CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2'14
5 Thomas Lövkvist FRANÇAISE DES JEUX + 2'15
6 Paolo Savoldelli ASTANA + 2'17
7 Mikhail Ignatiev TINKOFF CREDIT SYSTEMS + 2'19
8 Michael Rogers T-MOBILE TEAM + 2'20
9 Markus Fothen GEROLSTEINER + 2'22
10 Yaroslav Popovych DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'23
11 Christophe Moreau AG2R PREVOYANCE + 2'27
12 Benoit Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
13 Tomas Vaitkus DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 2'29
14 Bert Roesems PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'30 15 Carlos Sastre TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2'32
17 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 2'33
18 Yuriy Krivtsov AG2R PREVOYANCE + 2'34
19 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE + 2'37
20 Leif Hoste PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
22 Cadel Evans PREDICTOR - LOTTO + 2'38 27 Frank Schleck TEAM CSC + 2'43
89 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 3'20
98 Levi Leipheimer DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 5'00
101 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 5'13 104 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 5'31
109 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 5'57
152 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 10'05
154 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC + 10'21
159 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 12'51
Le Tour de France – Stage 3 | Points Competition
1 Tom Boonen QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 105
2 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL 86
3 Erik Zabel TEAM MILRAM 78
4 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 59
5 Heinrich Haussler GEROLSTEINER 57
6 Alejandro Valverde CAISSE D'EPARGNE 55
7 Robbie McEwen PREDICTOR - LOTTO 55
8 Bernhard Eisel T-MOBILE TEAM 55
9 Oscar Freire RABOBANK 54
10 Thor Hushovd CREDIT AGRICOLE 53 11 Fabian Cancellara TEAM CSC 40
17 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC 26
36 Jens Voigt TEAM CSC 8
Le Tour de France – Stage 3 | King of the Mountains Competition
1 Samuel Dumoulin AG2R PREVOYANCE 8
2 Frederic Guesdon FRANÇAISE DES JEUX 5
3 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM 5
4 Dmitriy Muravyev ASTANA 5
5 Murilo Fischer LIQUIGAS 4
6 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE 3
7 Erwin Thijs UNIBET.COM 3
8 Frank Hoj COFIDIS 1
9 Andreas Klier T-MOBILE TEAM 1
10 William Bonnet CREDIT AGRICOLE 1
B)
of course thats only because of his great managers, Riis will never be able to get him so good 
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