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Stage 16 Brief:After Marco Pantani's storming day in the Alps yesterday, today's stage presents him with another opportunity to get time on Ullrich and others before the time trial on Saturday. The second day in the Alps sees 5 major climbs. At 37.5 kms comes the Cat 1 Col de Porte (a 15.1 km climb at 7.1%), then at 50 kms the Cat 2 Col du Cucheron (a 4.4 km climb at 7.1%). 18 kms later, at the 68 kms mark comes the Cat 2 Col du Granier (a 8.5 km climb at 5.5%), then some time passes before the next Cat 2 climb at 115 kms, the Col du Grand Cucheron (a long and grinding 18.5 km climb at 4.3%). The toast for the stage comes at the 160.5 kms mark when the "Hors Categorie" Col de la Madeleine (a 20.8 km climb at 7.6%) is encountered. If Pantani has recovered enough from today he could take up to 10 minutes out of Ullrich. Let's hope he does an Eddy Merckx and storms away rather than just sits in the bunch.Well it was another long day in the mountains and the excitement came. A three man breakaway went on the first climb of Col de Porte (Heulot, Aldag, and Lotto's Andrei Teteriouk). They built up a lead of over 6 minutes. A small group attempted to bridge the gap but never succeeded. And then came the Col du Madeleine. We were all expecting Pantani to take more time from Ullrich and Julich. The three breakaway riders crumbled, first the Kazak, then Aldag which left Stephane Heulot going uphill slowly on his own. Then Ullrich showed his mettle when he attacked from the peloton. Only Pantani could match the strength of Ullrich, looking a far different proposition to yesterday. The strategy became clear - to maximise the gain on Julich, who is a better ITT than Pantani. They soon caught Heulot, who looked like he was standing still when they passed. Ullrich did all the work up the Col with Pantani, looking more and more like a pirate intent on stealing the Tour, sitting, more or less, comfortably on his wheel. It was only once they got over the top that the pair started to work together - both having the same motivation to maximise the gap on Julich. At the end, it was Ullrich who won a photo-finish sprint - well a sort of sprint. Dutch TV 2 had a laugh about the "sprint by the non-sprinters" - it was a sort of slow-motion job compared to the contests we see between Zabel and co. The gain on Julich was 1.49 which kept Ullrich in third place 16seconds behind Julich who is now 5.42 behind Pantani. The winner of the day was Pantani. He now has two superior ITT riders more than 5.40 behind him. Over the flat 53 kms course on Saturday, that will be a lot of time to make up. 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 16, Vizille - Albertville, 204 kms:1. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 5.39.47 (36.022) 2. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 0.00 3. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 1.49 4. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 5. Axel Merckx (Bel) Polti 6. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 7. Bjarne Riis (Den) Telekom 8. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saeco 9. Stephane Heulot (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 10. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) US Postal 11. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 1.49 12. Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 4.22 13. Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Lotto 14. Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Mapei 15. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei 16. Georg Totschnig (Aut) Telekom 17. Manuel Beltran (Spa) Banesto 18. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 19. Angel Casero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 20. Roland Meier (Swi) Cofidis 4.22 21. Benoit Salmon (Fra) Casino 4.25 22. Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 6.11 23. Laurent Madouas (Fra) Lotto 8.48 24. Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 25. Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 26. Kurt Van de Wouwer (Bel) Lotto 27. Patrick Jonker (Aus) Rabobank 28. Francisco Benitez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 29. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) US Postal 30. Peter Farazijn (Bel) Lotto 31. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 32. Kevin Livingston (USA) Cofidis 33. Prudencio Indurain (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 34. Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Polti 8.48 35. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 11.03 36. Vicent Garcia-Acosta (Spa) Banesto 37. Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal 38. Geert Verheyen (Bel) Lotto 39. Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 40. Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE 11.03 41. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 12.41 42. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 43. Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 44. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE 45. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONCE 46. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Cofidis 47. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 48. Denis Leproux (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 49. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 12.41 50. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Casino 18.09 51. Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme 52. Massimo Donati (Ita) Saeco 53. Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme 19.08 54. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) La Francaise des Jeux 55. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 23.17 56. Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Asics 57. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Asics 58. Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 59. Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 60. Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 61. Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) ONCE 23.17 62. Marty Jemison (USA) US Postal 25.54 63. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Casino 64. Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 65. Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 66. Luc Leblanc (Fra) Polti 25.54 67. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 28.33 68. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 69. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 70. Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 71. Peter Meinert (Den) US Postal 72. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 73. Fabio Roscioli (Ita) Asics 74. Xavier Jan (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 75. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONCE 76. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 77. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 78. Franck Bouyer (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 79. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei 80. Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 81. Serguei Ivanov (Rus) TVM 82. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 83. Melchor Mauri (Spa) ONCE 84. Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 85. Maximilian Sciandri (Gbr) La Francaise des Jeux 86. Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Vitalicio Seguros 87. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto 88. Marcos Serrano (Spa) Kelme 89. Pascal Lino (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 90. Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 91. Diego Ferrari (Ita) Asics 92. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 93. Christian Henn (Ger) Telekom 94. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 95. Jens Voigt (Ger) GAN 96. Frankie Andreu (USA) US Postal 97. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 98. Francois Simon (Fra) GAN 99. Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 100. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 101. Viatchesla Djavanian (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 102. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 103. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 104. Marino Alonso (Spa) Banesto 105. Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco 106. Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 107. Alain Turicchia (Ita) Asics 108. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 109. Rossano Brasi (Ita) Polti 110. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto 111. Stephane Barthe (Fra) Casino 112. Jacky Durand (Fra) Casino 113. Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme 28.33 114. Ermanno Brignoli (Ita) Riso Scotti 35.07 115. Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Riso Scotti 116. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 117. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 118. Steven De Jongh (Ned) TVM 119. Miguel Angel Pena (Spa) Banesto 120. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme 121. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 122. Magnus Backstedt (Swe) GAN 123. Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 124. Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei 125. Herminio Diaz Zabala (Spa) ONCE 126. Pascal Derame (Fra) US Postal 127. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 128. Francesco Frattini (Ita) Telekom 129. Sergei Outschakov (Ukr) TVM 130. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 131. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 132. Damien Nazon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 133. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 134. Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno 35.07 Abandoned: Jose Rodriguez (Spa) Kelme Franco Ballerini (Ita) Mapei Jan Svorada (Cze) Mapei Jose Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto Giuseppe Calcaterra (Ita) Saeco Did not start: Andrei Tchmil (Bel) Lotto GC after Stage 16
1. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 77.38.24 2. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 5.42 3. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 5.56 4. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 6.03 5. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 8.01 6. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 8.05 7. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 12.15 8. Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) US Postal 12.34 9. Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Saeco 12.45 10. Roland Meier (Swi) Cofidis 13.19 11. Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei 13.36 12. Angel Casero (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 13.54 13. Manuel Beltran (Spa) Banesto 14.20 14. Bjarne Riis (Den) Telekom 14.45 15. Giuseppe Di Grande (Ita) Mapei 15.13 16. Axel Merckx (Bel) Polti 16.15 17. Stephane Heulot (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 17.49 18. Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) US Postal 19.22 19. Bo Hamburger (Den) Casino 22.57 20. Kurt Van de Wouwer (Bel) Lotto 23.51 21. Laurent Jalabert (Fra) ONCE 24.21 22. Santiago Blanco (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 25.11 23. Vicent Garcia-Acosta (Spa) Banesto 27.54 24. Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Polti 28.35 25. Kevin Livingston (USA) Cofidis 30.30 26. Laurent Madouas (Fra) Lotto 30.40 27. Peter Farazijn (Bel) Lotto 30.47 28. Geert Verheyen (Bel) Lotto 32.09 29. Luc Leblanc (Fra) Polti 33.55 30. Udo Bolts (Ger) Telekom 35.08 31. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 35.30 32. Andrei Teteriouk (Kaz) Lotto 35.52 33. Benoit Salmon (Fra) Casino 37.37 34. Cesar Solaun (Spa) Banesto 38.55 35. Marcos Serrano (Spa) Kelme 40.38 36. Evgeni Berzin (Rus) La Francaise des Jeux 40.39 37. Georg Totschnig (Aut) Telekom 45.30 38. Prudencio Indurain (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 45.57 39. Luis Perez Rodriguez (Spa) ONCE 50.00 40. Francisco Benitez (Spa) Vitalicio Seguros 51.54 41. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 52.28 42. Philippe Bordenave (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 52.48 43. Thierry Bourguignon (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 53.42 44. Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Kelme 1.07.59 45. Oscar Pozzi (Ita) Asics 1.10.18 46. Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Casino 1.10.27 47. Denis Leproux (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.10.45 48. Patrick Jonker (Aus) Rabobank 1.11.18 49. Beat Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 1.11.22 50. Javier Mauleon (Spa) ONCE 1.13.40 51. Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Casino 1.15.07 52. Rolf Aldag (Ger) Telekom 1.15.11 53. Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 1.15.19 54. Lylian Lebreton (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.16.54 55. Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 1.16.57 56. Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal 1.17.19 57. Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.17.53 58. Peter Meinert (Den) US Postal 1.21.06 59. Andrea Tafi (Ita) Mapei 1.24.47 60. Marty Jemison (USA) US Postal 1.26.09 61. Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.26.46 62. Marcelino Garcia (Spa) ONCE 1.27.29 63. Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 1.27.55 64. Jose Javier Gomez (Spa) Kelme 1.28.28 65. Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.28.57 66. Miguel Angel Pena (Spa) Banesto 1.29.39 67. Massimo Donati (Ita) Saeco 1.32.37 68. Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal 1.33.22 69. Rafael Diaz Justo (Spa) ONCE 1.33.46 70. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 1.35.19 71. Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Cofidis 1.35.39 72. Serguei Ivanov (Rus) TVM 1.36.04 73. Francisco Cabello (Spa) Kelme 1.37.16 74. Filippo Simeoni (Ita) Asics 1.38.02 75. Roberto Conti (Ita) Mercatone Uno 1.43.09 76. Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Polti 1.43.11 77. Francois Simon (Fra) GAN 1.45.54 78. Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Vitalicio Seguros 1.46.28 79. Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom 1.46.46 80. Maximilian Sciandri (Gbr) La Francaise des Jeux 1.46.52 81. Melchor Mauri (Spa) ONCE 1.47.49 82. Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 1.49.44 83. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 1.50.35 84. Marino Alonso (Spa) Banesto 1.51.34 85. Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto 1.51.52 86. Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 1.52.30 87. Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto 1.53.44 88. Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 1.54.17 89. Thierry Gouvenou (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 1.54.29 90. Frankie Andreu (USA) US Postal 1.55.53 91. Alessandro Spezialetti (Ita) Riso Scotti 1.56.47 92. Ermanno Brignoli (Ita) Riso Scotti 1.57.46 93. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 1.58.17 94. Roberto Sierra (Spa) ONCE 1.59.26 95. Wilfried Peeters (Bel) Mapei 1.59.51 96. Stephane Barthe (Fra) Casino 2.02.52 97. Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 2.03.20 98. Xavier Jan (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 2.04.08 99. Diego Ferrari (Ita) Asics 2.04.28 100. Herminio Diaz Zabala (Spa) ONCE 2.04.49 101. Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Polti 2.06.52 102. Fabio Roscioli (Ita) Asics 2.07.02 103. Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei 2.07.17 104. Pascal Lino (Fra) Big Mat-Auber 93 2.08.59 105. Jens Voigt (Ger) GAN 2.09.21 106. Jose Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme 2.10.24 107. Alain Turicchia (Ita) Asics 2.11.05 108. Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Saeco 2.11.06 109. Jacky Durand (Fra) Casino 2.11.17 110. Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 2.11.22 111. Frederic Guesdon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 2.11.22 112. Rossano Brasi (Ita) Polti 2.13.05 113. Christian Henn (Ger) Telekom 2.13.20 114. Eros Poli (Ita) GAN 2.14.56 115. Viatchesla Djavanian (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 2.15.02 115. Magnus Backstedt (Swe) GAN 2.16.01 117. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 2.18.39 118. Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco 2.20.53 119. Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Saeco 2.21.27 120. Francesco Frattini (Ita) Telekom 2.22.36 121. Alexei Sivakov (Rus) Big Mat-Auber 93 2.24.19 122. Pascal Derame (Fra) US Postal 2.24.47 123. Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Rabobank 2.25.57 124. Franck Bouyer (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 2.26.51 125. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 2.27.52 126. Bart Leysen (Bel) Mapei 2.28.13 127. Servais Knaven (Ned) TVM 2.31.27 128. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 2.32.35 129. Bart Voskamp (Ned) TVM 2.34.08 130. Mario Traversoni (Ita) Mercatone Uno 2.35.38 131. Sergei Outschakov (Ukr) TVM 2.36.17 132. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 2.38.04 133. Steven De Jongh (Ned) TVM 2.39.01 134. Damien Nazon (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 2.55.56 Green Jersey:
1. Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom 272 2. Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei 161 3. Stuart O'Grady (Aus) GAN 151 4. Robbie Mc Ewen (Aus) Rabobank 144 5. Nicola Minali (Ita) Riso Scotti 134 6. George Hincapie (USA) US Postal 120 7. Francois Simon (Fra) GAN 109 8. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 97 9. Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) TVM 75 10. Andrea Ferrigato (Ita) Vitalicio Seguros 75 Mountains Jersey:
1. Rodolfo Massi (Ita) Casino 335 2. Christophe Rinero (Fra) Cofidis 197 3. Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 175 4. Alberto Elli (Ita) Casino 165 5. Stephane Heulot (Fra) La Francaise des Jeux 147 6. Cedric Vasseur (Fra) GAN 126 7. Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom 126 8. Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme 126 9. Bobby Julich (USA) Cofidis 98 10. Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 92 Teams:
1. Cofidis 232.54.17 2. Telekom 44.09 3. Banesto 51.32 4. Casino 52.04 5. Lotto 58.30 6. Polti 1.11.45 7. US Postal 1.11.54 8. Vitalicio Seguros 1.16.12 9. Kelme 1.41.41 10. Mapei 1.52.00 11. Rabobank 1.52.29 12. ONCE 1.58.24 13. Big Mat Auber 2.19.29 14. Mercatone Uno 2.20.09 15. La Francaise des Jeux 2.30.12 16. Saeco 3.11.50 17. GAN 3.52.39 18. Asics 3.58.15 19. Riso Scotti 5.58.54 20. TVM 6.12.56 |
