Good news. None of the two next stages crashed, so I have some very nice Giro action for you all tomorrow.
And just to make sure, the result of the 10th stage is at the bottom of page 17. I've got a feeling that some of you missed because I made a reply that got the story to page 18 right after posting that update
May 23:Giro d’Italia - Stage 11 | Serravalle Scrivia > Pinerolo - 198 km
A flat stage mostly equals a mass sprint finish. But with 10 stages behind them, a lot of riders are feeling fatigue and this goes especially for the heavy sprinters, but also their teams. So could we maybe begin to see a hint of weakening in teams like Milram and Discovery Channel?
Andy shared his take on the events on the previous stage with race leader Cunego, as the TV break with Luke Roberts took off from the pack.
Luke Roberts got away in a very strong group with no less than 13 other riders, who were: Engoulvent (C.A), Portal (GCE), Landaluze (EUS), Cretskens (QSI), De Kort (AST), Arrieta (A2R), Ziegler (TMO), Putsep (BTL), Van Avermaet (PRL), Bucciero (PAN), Ladagnous (FDJ), Pronk (UNI) and Aggiano (TCS). With Landaluze being the best rider in the GC in this group, trailing Cunego by 30’20”, you would think the pack would let them come through, but with 100 km to go and a gap of just above 9 minutes, the pack, led by Milram and Discovery upped the pace and began reeling in the breakaway.
All Discovery can think about in this Giro is Allan Davis, as they put forward both Brajkovic and Contador to help reeling in the breakaway.
At some point the pack would have an off-day, and that day was apparently today. The first part of the reeling-in proceeded as scheduled and with 50 km to they had cut the gap to just 4’20”. But from this point they couldn’t sustain that pace, meaning the gap was only cut to 3’20” with just 20 km left to race.
With 16 km to go, Portal and De Kort attacked from the front group and they got a gap immediately. Portal was the strongest however as he managed to drop De Kort during his acceleration and ride off alone.
The pack had an off-day as De Kort and Portal seemed strongest in the leading group.
We’d hoped that Portal would begin to fade but as he kept increasing his gap very slowly, we grow impatient and asked Luke to try something. But he was all done and he couldn’t muster up an attack that would take him clear of the chasing group, where De Kort had been reeled back in.
With 5 km to go, Portal had 36 seconds on the chasers, who had 1’02” on the pack.
Portal is a decent cobbler so he knows his way around in the flat. And he wasn’t to be caught as he steered home a beautiful solo victory today. The chasers were eventually caught on the home stretch by the pack. But Roberts still managed to take home a 6th place on the stage as he was the strongest in the chasing group.
Nicolas Portal could just hold off the pack as he won the biggest win of his career so far after a super individual effort.
The whole team got through without problems today. So did all the favourites meaning there are no changes in the GC. Pettachi who finished 2nd today must be a little frustrated as he finally was the strongest in the pack, but had to see his victory go to Nicolas Portal as he was only, who was strong enough to hold off the pack. Tomorrow we have a thrilling mountain stage, that will take the riders over two uncategorized mountains to the French town of Briancon, with its almost classics uphill finish. Important day for Andy.
Giro d’Italia - Stage 11 | Result
1 Nicolas Portal CAISSE D'EPARGNE 4h29'07
2 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM + 33
3 Antonio Bucciero CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
4 Danilo Napolitano LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
5 Francisco Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 6 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC s.t.
7 Mathieu Ladagnous FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
8 Graeme Brown RABOBANK s.t.
9 Greg Van Avermaet PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
10 Daniele Bennati LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
11 Jean-Patrick Nazon AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
12 Steven De Jongh QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
13 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM s.t.
14 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS s.t.
15 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
16 Mark Cavendish T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
17 Erki Putsep BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
18 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
19 Paride Grillo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE s.t.
20 José Luis Arrieta AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
Giro d’Italia - Stage 11 | GC
1 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL 47h28'19
2 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS + 1'30 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 2'17
4 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 3'41
5 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE + 3'48
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 6'58
7 José G. Marchante SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 7'48
8 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 8'12
9 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER + 8'28
10 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 8'42
11 Andrea Noe LIQUIGAS + 8'56
12 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 9'13
13 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 9'15
14 Cristian Moreni COFIDIS + 9'17
15 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 10'29
16 Igor Anton H. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 10'33
17 Pablo Lastras CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 10'42
18 David Moncoutié COFIDIS + 10'52
19 Jose Rujano UNIBET.COM + 11'44
20 Gustav Larsson UNIBET.COM + 11'49 24 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 12'34
34 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 16'58
39 Volodimir Gustov TEAM CSC + 17'37
47 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 20'42
76 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC + 28'42
100 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 40'29
105 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 42'20
Giro d’Italia – Stage 11 | Points Competition
1 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL 133
2 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 112
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 85
4 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE 79
5 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 74
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS 63
7 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 61 8 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 58
9 Francisco Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 57
10 Marco Zanotti UNIBET.COM 55
Giro d’Italia – Stage 11 | King of the Mountains
1 Dario Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO 30
2 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL 26
3 Domenico Pozzovivo CERAMICA PANARIA - NAVIGARE 21 4 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 19
5 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE 18
6 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 12
7 Joost Posthuma RABOBANK 12
8 Jakob Piil T-MOBILE TEAM 11
9 Andrea Moletta GEROLSTEINER 11
10 Jurgen Van Goolen DISCOVERY CHANNEL 11
Nicolas Portal wins the 11th stage of the Giro d’Italia, as Allesandro Pettachi loses a great opportunity of winning.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
A flat stage today in Catalunya and a surprising winner in the mass sprint.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 3 Result | Perafort > Tàrrega – 182 km
1 Samuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI 4h02'31
2 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
3 André Greipel T-MOBILE TEAM s.t.
4 Francesco Chicchi LIQUIGAS s.t.
5 Claudio Corioni LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
6 Carlo Scognamiglio TEAM MILRAM s.t.
7 Alexandre Vinokourov ASTANA s.t.
8 Sébastien Chavanel FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
9 Martin Elmiger AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
10 Guennadi Mikhailov ASTANA s.t. 27 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC s.t.
68 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC s.t.
77 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC s.t.
89 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
118 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
151 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
165 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
172 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC s.t.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 3 | GC
1 Juan José Cobo Acebo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 4h39'46
2 Oscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 52
3 Stijn Devolder DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 58
4 Victor Hugo Pena UNIBET.COM + 1'02
5 Denis Menchov RABOBANK s.t.
6 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 1'04 7 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC s.t.
8 Jérôme Pineau BOUYGUES TELECOM + 1'06
9 Francesco Bellotti CREDIT AGRICOLE + 1'12
10 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 1'31 13 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC + 1'52
67 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 4'50
90 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC + 7'57
93 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
104 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC + 8'22
147 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 10'16
153 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC + 10'37Edited by niconico on 08-10-2007 22:01
May 24:Giro d’Italia - Stage 12 | Scalenghe > Briançon - 163 km
Stage Profile
Today’s stage is in this Giro’s top 3 for hardest stages, no doubt. After about 80 km, the riders begin the first ascention of the day, the very nasty Colle dell’Agnello. It’s 21,3 km long and it has an average gradient of 6,5 %, so we’re surely going to see a lot of riders getting dropped here. At the top, the riders cross the border into France and following the descent, the riders hit the legendary Col d’Izoard 37 km from the finish in Briançon. The finish line is located at a small hill at the bottom of the descent from Col d’Izoard, so we could be in for a fascinating finish if a small group makes it to the finish. None of the favourites can afford an off-day in this terrain.
Vandevelde got away today in a big group with 11 other riders. Those were: Piil (TMO), Joachim (AST), Tomei (PAN), Facci (QSI), Hernàndez G. (EUS), Labbe (BTL), Kiryienka (TCS), Velo (MRM), McLeod (FDJ), Van Goolen (DSC) and Strauss (GST).
Vandevelde took off, While Andy’s teammates kept him safe in the peloton until the climbing would commence.
With a 100 km to go there were still 15 km to the Colle dell’Agnello, but already at this point the road rised by 3%. With 85 to go, the breakaway riders hit this terrifying climb, at this point the led the pack by 9 minutes. Christian was far better than his breakaway companions, so with 15 km to the top, he took off in a brave effort. Noone could follow the American.
Christian recieved brilliant support from the Americans, who had found their way to Colle dell’Agnello to cheer on their heroes.
The pack increased the pace by hard work from primarily Lampre and they caught all of the breakaway riders except Christian on the Colle dell’Agnello. At the top Christian led the pack by 3’30”, but he had still 60 km to go.
As the pack crossed the top it had shrinked to just 59 riders. We had four amongst these. Andy of course was one of them, but also Dave, Gustov and Nicki were present. As Christian finally hit the Col d’Izoard with just under 40 km to go, his gap had come down to just 1 minute and no doubt he would be caught here.
With 8 km to the top, the first attack came. It was Simoni, who had some revenging to do after a horrible ride on the 10th stage where he lost his podium spot. Di Luca and Andy were hot on his tail however, but Cunego didn’t move yet in the pack. As Andy, Di Luca and Simoni had joined forces and were cooperating to gain a lot of time on Cunego, the race leader finally attacked but he couldn’t make the front group as he apparently didn’t have the best of legs today.
Vandevelde was quickly caught by the trio in front as Cunego was having a hard time, trying to chase down his GC opponents.
And the maglia rosa was struggling out there today. As the Andy-Group crossed the top, they had almost a minute on Cunego, meaning Di Luca was just 30 seconds shy off the leaders jersey at this point. Cunego did a good descent however as he gained a little here, but as they hit the flat part towards Briancon, he begang losing ground again.
Is the Maglia Rosa falling? Is Di Luca going to pick it up?
So far this race he has shown no signs of weakness, but today he looked screwed and he looked nothing like the rider who triumphed at the top of Montevergine about a week ago. Was the lenght of the Grand Tour coming to Cunego?
The fight for the win wasn’t very exciting. Di Luca was the strongest on the final hill and even though Andy tried to attack on the last two kilometres he couldn’t do anything about Di Luca who opened a gap to Andy and Simoni on the last climb and eventually won the stage by 27 seconds. Cunego claimed fourth 1’38” later, meaning he would lose his jersey to Danilo Di Luca. There’s really no point in mentioning who came in fourth as this Giro is going to be decided between the four riders that was in the top four today. No. 5 in the GC after this stage is about 8 minutes after Di Luca, while Simoni in fourth is 2’46” after. Tomorrow’s stage is another day for the GC riders it’s a mountain time trial, which could change some things in the infamous top four. And by the way, Zabriskie did a very good job today aswell finishing 15th to move to 20th in the GC.
Di Luca took the stage and the Maglia Rosa off the back of Damiano Cunego after a brilliant ride.
Giro d’Italia - Stage 12 | Result
1 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 4h55'10
2 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 27 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC s.t.
4 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 1'38
5 Jose Rujano UNIBET.COM + 4'55
6 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 5'02
7 Igor Anton H. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 5'11
8 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 5'20
9 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 5'30
10 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
11 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
12 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE s.t.
13 Marzio Bruseghin LAMPRE - FONDITAL s.t.
14 José G. Marchante SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t. 15 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC s.t.
16 Michael Rasmussen RABOBANK s.t.
17 Dario Cioni PREDICTOR - LOTTO s.t.
18 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE s.t.
19 Andrea Noe LIQUIGAS s.t.
20 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS s.t. 29 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC s.t.
34 Volodimir Gustov TEAM CSC + 6'34
54 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 12'36
80 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 18'20
91 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 19'56
178 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 45'32
Giro d’Italia - Stage 12 | GC
1 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 52h24'39
2 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 28 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 1'26
4 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2'46
5 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE + 8'08
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 11'08
7 José G. Marchante SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 12'08
8 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 12'32
9 Andrea Noe LIQUIGAS + 13'16
10 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 13'33
11 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 13'35
12 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER + 13'52
13 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 14'21
14 Igor Anton H. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 14'34
15 Cristian Moreni COFIDIS + 14'41
16 David Moncoutié COFIDIS + 15'12
17 Jose Rujano UNIBET.COM + 15'29
18 Michael Rasmussen RABOBANK + 16'30
19 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS + 16'50 20 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 16'54
34 Volodimir Gustov TEAM CSC + 23'01
54 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 32'08
56 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC + 33'02
59 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 35'44
85 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 57'39
121 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 1h26'42
Giro d’Italia – Stage 12 | Points Competition
1 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL 147
2 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 137
3 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 85
4 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE 79 5 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 74
6 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 74
7 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS 71
8 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 61
9 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 59
10 Francisco Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 57
Danilo “The Killer” Di Luca proved to his opponents that if they want to win, they have to go through him.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
As in the Giro, we have a mountain stage today. Cuesta is still out best rider in the GC, placed 7th and today is very important if he want to retain that top ten spot he’s hoping for. The chances are slim though.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 4 Result | Tàrrega > Vallnord Arinsal – 197 km
1 Eladio Jiménez KARPIN - GALICIA 5h39'39
2 Julián Sánchez Pimienta RELAX - GAM s.t.
3 Benoit Vaugrenard FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
4 Nicolas Crosbie BOUYGUES TELECOM s.t.
5 Michael Barry T-MOBILE TEAM + 56
6 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM s.t.
7 Alexandre Vinokourov ASTANA + 1'08
8 Oscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE s.t.
9 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC s.t.
10 Samuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1'26
11 Juan José Cobo Acebo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR s.t.
12 Denis Menchov RABOBANK s.t.
13 David López García CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'37
14 Francisco Mancebo RELAX - GAM + 1'50
15 Andreas Klöden ASTANA s.t.
16 Haimar Zubeldia EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI s.t.
17 Alexandre Botcharov CREDIT AGRICOLE + 1'59
18 José Luis Rubiera DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
19 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2'15
20 Beat Zberg GEROLSTEINER + 2'55 23 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 3'25
58 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC + 13'44
76 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC + 16'01
94 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 25'24
120 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 41'59
156 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC s.t.
174 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC s.t.
175 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC s.t.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 4 | GC
1 Juan José Cobo Acebo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 14h23'22
2 Oscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 34
3 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 1'02
4 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 1'28
5 Alexandre Vinokourov ASTANA + 1'34
6 Samuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1'48
7 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 2'18
8 David López García CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2'20
9 Fabio Sacchi TEAM MILRAM + 2'44 10 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 3'03
Samuel Sanches lead the points competition while Eladio Jimenez leads the King of the Mountains competition.Edited by niconico on 08-10-2007 22:01
If Andy is to win, I need a mountain top finish and there are two of them left. I would sure like to win at Monte Zoncolan Edited by niconico on 05-10-2007 17:47
May 25:Giro d’Italia - Stage 13 | Biella > Santuario di Oropa - 13 km
Stage Profile
The first two riders worth mentioning on today’s Time trial are the two Discovery Captains Alberto Contador and Janez Brajkovic. Brajkovic had a great start to his Giro as he came 6th on the first mountain stage to move to the very same spot in the GC. But on the very hilly 6th stage he had a very bad day and went from 6th to 41st in the GC, which is a shame really for this young talent.
Alberto Contador took over the lead as he crossed the finish line in a provisional best time.
Marzio Bruseghin pulled off a great time today as he was the leader for a long time as he came out a bit later than the Discovery boys and beat Contador by 17 seconds to claim the provisional leader. Unibet.com’s Gustav Larson, who could be heading to CSC from next season, was also pretty strong today as he came provisional 3rd. 9 seconds off Contador’s time.
Marzio Bruseghin showed off some time trial and climbing ability today sweeped aside Alberto Contador.
Igor Anton has been a dissapointment so far, while Piepoli has been a fantastic domestique for his captain Gilberto Simoni.
David Zabriskie took off as th 20th last rider and he was climbing fast. He was bit down on the first intermediate time, but as he approached the top he cranked up the pace. He couldn’t do anything about Bruseghin’s lead however as he “only” clocked 2nd best time, 2 seconds off the pace. Another Saunier Duval rider, José Angel Gomez Marchante, took off a bit later than Dave. He managed a time 25 seconds off Bruseghin and took provisional 8th at the top of mountain.
Dave rode a strong mountain time trial today as he was looking to improve on his 20th place in the GC.
As I described on the previous stage, there are only four interesting riders left in this Giro, when it comes to the GC. The first one of them to take off was Gilberto Simoni and he really put up a display out there today. Andy rode behind today and he didn’t recieve any encouraging times indicating how much Simoni was ahead of him. Simoni did clock the best time as he beat the current leader Leonardo Piepoli by a whopping 36 seconds. Andy redeemed himself on the last part of the time trial as he managed to limit his loss to Simoni to just 14 seconds to take a provisional 2nd best time.
The two riders left were the currently most interesting riders in the GC, Di Luca and Cunego. As Cunego had lost the lead on the previous stage he started before Di Luca. Before today Di Luca lead Cunego by just 28 seconds in the GC, so Cunego could do some catching up already today, and so he really did. He could do nothing about Simoni, as he was going to win today, but he clocked 2nd best time, pushing Andy to 3rd, 7 seconds off Simoni. Di Luca really took his time and he came really close to losing the jersey again, but he managed to limit his loss on Simoni to 36 seconds meaning, that he would still lead in the GC, but only by 2 seconds!
The riders of the infamous top four have no all claimed stage victories as Simoni won today’s time trial and tightened the grip on race leader Danilo Di Luca.
This result meant that Andy would just be 1’07” off the lead of Danilo Di Luca and Simoni another minute back, trailing “The Killer” by 2’12”. Dave moved to 18th in the GC as he finished 8th today. Tomorrow features another hilly stage that could see Di Luca try to regain some time on Cunego as he is now just leading by 2 lousy seconds!
Giro d’Italia - Stage 13 | Result
1 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 25'32
2 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 8 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 15
4 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS + 34
5 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 36
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 52
7 Marzio Bruseghin LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 53 8 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 55
9 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'05
10 Jose Rujano UNIBET.COM + 1'07
11 Alberto Contador DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'10
12 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'11
13 José G. Marchante SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 1'18
14 Gustav Larsson UNIBET.COM + 1'19
15 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 1'20
16 Janez Brajkovic DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 1'22 17 Volodimir Gustov TEAM CSC + 1'24
18 Sandy Casar FRANÇAISE DES JEUX s.t.
19 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE + 1'25
20 Matteo Carrara UNIBET.COM + 1'28 34 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 1'44
42 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC + 1'57
49 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 2'10
51 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 2'12
96 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 2'27
Giro d’Italia - Stage 13 | GC
1 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 52h50'45
2 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 2 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC + 1'07
4 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 2'12
5 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE + 8'59
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS + 11'26
7 Leonardo Piepoli SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 12'34
8 José G. Marchante SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 12'52
9 Riccardo Riccò SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 14'06
10 Andrea Noe LIQUIGAS + 14'12
11 Pietro Caucchioli CREDIT AGRICOLE + 14'27
12 David Arroyo CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 14'58
13 Davide Rebellin GEROLSTEINER + 15'32
14 Igor Anton H. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 15'33
15 Jose Rujano UNIBET.COM + 16'02
16 Cristian Moreni COFIDIS + 16'03
17 David Moncoutié COFIDIS + 16'33 18 David Zabriskie TEAM CSC + 17'15
19 Michael Rasmussen RABOBANK + 17'32
20 Leonardo Bertagnolli LIQUIGAS + 17'52 32 Volodimir Gustov TEAM CSC + 23'51
53 Christian Vandevelde TEAM CSC + 33'18
56 Nicki Sørensen TEAM CSC + 34'25
58 Kurt-Asle Arvesen TEAM CSC + 37'20
85 Bobby Julich TEAM CSC + 59'17
119 Luke Roberts TEAM CSC + 1h28'35
Giro d’Italia – Stage 13 | Points Competition
1 Damiano Cunego LAMPRE - FONDITAL 167
2 Danilo Di Luca LIQUIGAS 151 3 Andy Schleck TEAM CSC 90
4 Alessandro Petacchi TEAM MILRAM 85
5 Gilberto Simoni SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 84
6 Franco Pellizotti LIQUIGAS 81
7 Rinaldo Nocentini AG2R PREVOYANCE 79
8 Paolo Bettini QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC 74
9 Allan Davis DISCOVERY CHANNEL 61
10 Francisco Ventoso SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 57
Gilberto Simoni led today’s attack on La Maglia Rosa as the GC is getting really exciting.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
Similar to today’s stage in the Giro, there was also a mountain time trial today in Volta Ciclista a Catalunya, where he hoped the Cuesta could maintain his top ten spot.
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 5 Result | Sornas Vallnord > Arcalís – 17,1 km
1 Denis Menchov RABOBANK 36'44
2 Patxi Vila LAMPRE - FONDITAL + 9
3 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 11
4 Alexandre Vinokourov ASTANA + 17
5 Samuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 21
6 Oscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 25
7 Egoi Martinez DISCOVERY CHANNEL s.t.
8 Francisco Mancebo RELAX - GAM + 26
9 Vincenzo Nibali LIQUIGAS + 30
10 Juan José Cobo Acebo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR + 34 51 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC + 2'34
65 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC + 3'09
84 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 4'00
87 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 4'07
143 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC + 6'49
148 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 7'01
158 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 7'18
174 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC + 7'53
Volta Ciclista a Catalunya – Stage 5 | GC
1 Juan José Cobo Acebo SAUNIER DUVAL - PRODIR 15h00'40
2 Oscar Pereiro CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 25
3 Denis Menchov RABOBANK + 28
4 Alexandre Vinokourov ASTANA + 1'17
5 Samuel Sánchez G. EUSKALTEL - EUSKADI + 1'35
6 Juan Manuel Gárate QUICKSTEP - INNERGETIC + 1'55
7 Andreas Klöden ASTANA + 2'39
8 David López García CAISSE D'EPARGNE + 2'53
9 Julián Sánchez Pimienta RELAX - GAM + 3'17
10 José Luis Rubiera DISCOVERY CHANNEL + 3'31 16 Iñigo Cuesta TEAM CSC + 6'36
46 Lars Ytting Bak TEAM CSC + 16'10
71 Chris Anker Sørensen TEAM CSC + 25'32
90 Marcus Ljungqvist TEAM CSC + 32'14
133 Matthew Goss TEAM CSC + 54'45
141 Michael Blaudzun TEAM CSC + 55'14
158 Juan José Haedo TEAM CSC + 57'16
166 Matti Breschel TEAM CSC + 58'29Edited by niconico on 08-10-2007 22:02
