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Stage 15 Brief:The Tour enters the first of 3 days in the Alps today. There are 4 major climbs in the 189 kms journey from Grenoble to Les Deux Alpes. The stage culminates on the steady climb up Les Deux Alpes (Cat 1, 8.8 kms at 6.8%). The climb will suit the power climbers like Jan Ullrich rather than the true grimpeur like Marco Pantani. For Pantani, his chance will have to come earlier, probably at the Col du Galibier.So, at the 69 kms mark, they encounter the "Hors Categorie" Col de la Croix de Fer (a 24.5 km climb at 5.1%), then at 123 kms they climb the Cat 2 Col du Télégraphe (an 11.7 km climb at 6.8%), before heading over the highest point, the "Hors Categorie" Col du Galibier (an 18.3 km climb at 6.8%) at 146.5 kms. The finishing climb of Les Deux Alpes comes at 189 kms. Watch Pantani on Galibier. Well the prediction was accurate. Marco Pantani blew the Tour apart today with a storming victory which began on the ascent of Galibier. He quickly wound in the leading group of Rinero (Cofidis), Massi (Casino). There were two others he passed on the way including Escartin (Kelme) who had attacked earlier. The lead group had a lead of around 2.30 on the Ullrich group (with about 10 riders in it, including Julich, Pantani, Boogerd). As the climb progressed and Ullrich without Telekom support the drama started. Pantani attacked so quickly and no-one could go with him. Leblanc tried but did not last. He stormed past the leaders and went over the top of Galibier at 2.29 on Ullrich. The weather was very dull and misty and the roads wet. The descent was treacherous and Pantani (joined again by Rinero, Massi, Escartin and another) increased the lead. By the botton as they were heading up the final 8.8 kms climb of Les Deux Alpes the lead was over 4 minutes. Pantani stormed away again and the lead increased. Julich and Boogerd attacked Ullrich who was now looking slow and spent. Telekom had by now brought back Udo Bolts and then Bjarne Riis to pace him up the final climb. But he looked terrible and was losing time quickly. As Pantani crossed the finishing line he was over 4 minutes in front of Julich and Boogerd and 6.30 in front of Ullrich - and in yellow. Massi was second and Escartin third. Official PhotosThese photos were sent to me by the official organisation of the Tour de France. The Official WWW Site is at http://www.letour.comStage 15, Grenoble - Les Deux Alpes, 189 kms:1. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 5.43.45 (32.989) 2. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 1.54 3. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 1.59 4. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 2.57 5. Bobby Julich (USa) Cofidis 5.43 6. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 5.48 7. Marcos Serrano (Spa) Kelme 6.04 8. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) US Postal 6.34 9. Manuel Beltran (Spa) Banesto 6.40 10. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) US Postal 11. Axel Merckx (Bel) Polti 12. Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Mapei 13. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saeco 14. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei 15. Angel Casero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 6.40 16. Roland Meier (Swi) Cofidis 17. Luc Leblanc (Fra) Polti 6.46 18. Geert Verheyen (Bel) Lotto 7.36 19. Kurt Van de Wouwer (Bel) Lotto 20. Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 21. Peter Farazijn (Bel) Lotto 7.57 22. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 8.33 23. Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 8.57 24. Bjarne Riis (Den) Telekom 8.57 25. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 8.57 26. Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 10.02 27. Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 10.16 28. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 11.48 29. Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Polti 11.58 30. Vicent Garcia-Acosta (Spa) Banesto 12.22 31. Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Lotto 13.39 32. Prudencio Indurain (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 33. Stephane Heulot (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 13.56 34. Francisco Benitez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 35. Laurent Madouas (Fra) Lotto 14.10 36. Benoit Salmon (Fra) Casino 14.47 37. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 15.16 38. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 15.20 39. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 15.33 40. Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 41. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) La Francaise des Jeux 16.37 42. Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal 18.44 43. Kevin Livingston (USA) Cofidis 44. Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 20.38 45. Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 46. Ermanno Brignoli (Ita) Riso Scotti 23.37 47. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 48. Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 49. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Asics 50. Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Asics 51. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONCE 52. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 53. Maximilian Sciandri (Gbr) La Francaise des Jeux 24.17 54. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 24.30 55. Denis Leproux (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 25.14 56. Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE 26.22 57. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 27.05 58. Marty Jemison (USA) US Postal 27.34 59. Peter Meinert (Den) US Postal 60. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 61. Frankie Andreu (USA) US Postal 62. Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme 28.09 63. Francois Simon (Fra) GAN 29.19 64. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Casino 29.39 65. Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 29.51 66. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE 29.56 67. Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 30.09 68. Georg Totschnig (Aut) Telekom 69. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 31.52 70. Patrick Jonker (Aus) Rabobank 31.53 71. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Casino 32.08 72. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 32.19 73. Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) ONCE 32.27 74. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONCE 32.35 75. Serguei Ivanov (Rus) TVM 35.11 76. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 35.51 77. Marino Alonso (Spa) Banesto 78. Fabio Roscioli (Ita) Asics 79. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 80. Melchor Mauri (Spa) ONCE 81. Christian Henn (Ger) Telekom 82. Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 83. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 84. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei 85. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto 86. Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 87. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 88. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 89. Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 90. Jose Rodriguez (Spa) Kelme 91. Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme 92. Herminio Diaz Zabala (Spa) ONCE 93. Diego Ferrari (Ita) Asics 94. Jens Voigt (Ger) GAN 95. Miguel Angel Pena (Spa) Banesto 96. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme 97. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 98. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto 99. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto 100. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Cofidis 101. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 102. Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 103. Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 104. Alain Turicchia (Ita) Asics 105. Jacky Durand (Fra) Casino 106. Rossano Brasi (Ita) Polti 107. Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 35.51 108. Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Vitalicio Seguros 36.15 109. Massimo Donati (Ita) Saeco 36.56 110. Pascal Lino (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 36.59 111. Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 37.39 112. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 37.44 113. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 37.57 114. Pascal Derame (Fra) US Postal 115. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 116. Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme 117. Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Riso Scotti 118. Stephane Barthe (Fra) Casino 119. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei 120. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 121. Franck Bouyer (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 122. Steven De Jongh (Ned) TVM 123. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 124. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 125. Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 126. Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco 127. Sergei Outschakov (Ukr) TVM 128. Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno 129. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 130. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 131. Xavier Jan (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 132. Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei 133. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 134. Damien Nazon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 135. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 136. Magnus Backstedt (Swe) GAN 137. Francesco Frattini (Ita) Telekom 138. Giuseppe Calcaterra (Ita) Saeco 139. Stuart O.Grady (Aus) GAN 37.57 140. Viatchesla Djavanian (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 39.05 Outside Time Limit: Eddy Seigneur (Fra) GAN Abandoned: Fabio Baldato (Ita) Riso Scotti Sergio Barbero (Ita) Mercatone Uno Jose Luis Arrieta (Spa) Banesto Peter Van Petegem (Bel) TVM Leonardo Guidi (Ita) Polti Jose De Los Angeles (Spa) Kelme GC after Stage 15
1. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 71.58.37 2. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 3.53 2. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 4.14 4. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 5.56 5. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 6.12 6. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 6.16 7. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 7.53 8. Luc Leblanc (Fra) Polti 8.01 9. Roland Meier (Swi) Cofidis 8.57 10. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei 9.14 11. Angel Casero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 9.32 12. Manuel Beltran (Spa) Banesto 9.58 13. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 10.16 14. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) US Postal 10.34 15. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) US Postal 10.45 16. Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Mapei 10.51 17. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saeco 10.56 18. Marcos Serrano (Spa) Kelme 12.05 19. Bjarne Riis (Den) Telekom 12.56 20. Axel Merckx (Bel) Polti 14.26 21. Kurt Van de Wouwer (Bel) Lotto 15.03 22. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 15.33 23. Stephane Heulot (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 16.00 24. Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 16.23 25. Vicent Garcia-Acosta (Spa) Banesto 16.51 26. Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Polti 19.47 27. Geert Verheyen (Bel) Lotto 21.06 28. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) La Francaise des Jeux 21.31 29. Kevin Livingston (USA) Cofidis 21.42 30. Laurent Madouas (Fra) Lotto 21.52 31. Peter Farazijn (Bel) Lotto 21.59 32. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 24.27 33. Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 27.52 34. Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 28.57 35. Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Lotto 31.30 36. Benoit Salmon (Fra) Casino 33.12 37. Prudencio Indurain (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 37.09 38. Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE 38.57 39. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 39.47 40. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 41.01 41. Georg Totschnig (Aut) Telekom 41.08 42. Francisco Benitez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 43.06 43. Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 44.00 44. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Asics 47.01 45. Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 48.05 46. Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme 48.51 47. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Casino 49.13 48. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 49.20 49. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Casino 52.18 50. Peter Meinert (Den) US Postal 52.33 51. Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 53.40 52. Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 54.02 53. Miguel Angel Pena (Spa) Banesto 54.32 54. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 56.14 55. Denis Leproux (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 58.04 56. Marty Jemison (USA) US Postal 1.00.15 57. Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.00.52 58. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONCE 1.00.59 59. Patrick Jonker (Aus) Rabobank 1.02.30 60. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 1.02.38 61. Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.03.03 62. Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.04.13 63. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.04.38 64. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 1.06.46 65. Serguei Ivanov (Rus) TVM 1.07.31 66. Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme 1.08.43 67. Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme 1.10.19 68. Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) ONCE 1.10.29 69. Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 1.10.49 70. Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 1.13.22 71. Massimo Donati (Ita) Saeco 1.14.08 72. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.14.36 73. Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 1.14.38 74. Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Asics 1.14.45 75. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE 1.14.48 76. Francois Simon (Fra) GAN 1.17.21 77. Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Vitalicio Seguros 1.17.55 78. Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 1.18.13 79. Maximilian Sciandri (Gbr) La Francaise des Jeux 1.18.19 80. Melchor Mauri (Spa) ONCE 1.19.16 81. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 1.21.11 82. Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Riso Scotti 1.21.40 83. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 1.22.02 84. Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal 1.22.19 85. Ermanno Brignoli (Ita) Riso Scotti 1.22.39 86. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Cofidis 1.22.58 87. Marino Alonso (Spa) Banesto 1.23.01 88. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 1.23.10 89. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto 1.23.19 90. Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 1.23.57 91. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto 1.25.11 92. Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 1.25.44 93. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.25.56 94. Frankie Andreu (USA) US Postal 1.27.20 95. Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto 1.29.24 96. Herminio Diaz Zabala (Spa) ONCE 1.29.42 97. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONCE 1.30.53 98. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei 1.31.18 99. Stephane Barthe (Fra) Casino 1.34.19 100. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.34.47 101. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme 1.35.17 102. Xavier Jan (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 1.35.35 103. Jose Rodriguez (Spa) Kelme 1.35.41 104. Diego Ferrari (Ita) Asics 1.35.55 105. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 1.38.19 106. Fabio Roscioli (Ita) Asics 1.38.29 107. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 1.38.44 108. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 1.39.49 109. Pascal Lino (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.40.26 110. Jens Voigt (Ger) GAN 1.40.48 111. Magnus Backstedt (Swe) GAN 1.40.54 112. Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei 1.41.49 113. Alain Turicchia (Ita) Asics 1.42.32 114. Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 1.42.33 115. Jacky Durand (Fra) Casino 1.42.44 115. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 1.42.49 117. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 1.42.49 118. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 1.43.32 119. Rossano Brasi (Ita) Polti 1.44.32 120. Christian Henn (Ger) Telekom 1.44.47 121. Giuseppe Calcaterra (Ita) Saeco 1.44.58 122. Viatchesla Djavanian (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.46.29 123. Francesco Frattini (Ita) Telekom 1.47.29 124. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 1.49.20 125. Pascal Derame (Fra) US Postal 1.49.40 126. Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 1.50.50 127. Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco 1.52.20 128. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 1.52.54 129. Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei 1.53.06 130. Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.55.46 131. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 1.56.20 132. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 1.57.28 133. Franck Bouyer (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 1.58.18 134. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 1.59.01 135. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 1.59.19 136. Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno 2.00.31 137. Sergei Outschakov (Ukr) TVM 2.01.10 138. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 2.02.57 139. Steven De Jongh (Ned) TVM 2.03.54 140. Damien Nazon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 2.20.49 Green Jersey:
1. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 272 2. Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei 168 3. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 161 4. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 151 5. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 144 6. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 134 7. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 120 8. François Simon (Fra) GAN 109 9. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 82 10. Jeroen Blijlevens (P-B) TVM 75 Mountains Jersey:
1. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 307 2. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 189 3. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 165 4. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 136 5. Cédric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 126 6. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 100 7. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 86 8. Roland Meier (Sui) Cofidis 81 9. Michaël Boogerd (P-B) Rabobank 76 10. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 75 Teams:
1. Cofidis 215.46.56 2. Banesto 33.04 3. Casino 38.36 4. Polti 43.14 5. Lotto 44.32 6. Telekom 45.58 7. US Postal 58.14 8. Vitalicio Seguros 1.02.14 9. Kelme 1.10.35 10. Mapei 1.22.43 11. Rabobank 1.26.35 12. ONCE 1.33.52 13. Mercatone Uno 1.36.21 14. La Française des Jeux 1.48.42 15. Big Mat Auber 1.53.19 16. Saeco 2.31.19 17. ASICS 2.51.08 18. GAN 2.52.30 19. Riso Scotti 4.21.33 20. TVM 4.42.09 |
