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87th Tour de France - Grand TourFrance, July 1 - 23, 2000 |
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Stage 4 - July 4: Team Time Trial Nantes - Saint-Nazaire, 70 km
You don't need a weatherman...O.N.C.E. unbeatable in TTT
By Tim Maloney, cyclingnews.com correspondent
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On a beautiful, blustery day where the Loire River empties into the Atlantic, the strong winds blew Scot David Millar (COFIDIS) out of the Maillot Jaune and with a glorious display of precision and strength, O.N.C.E. powered to victory in the 70 km team test, putting their co-team leader Laurent Jalabert into the Maillot Jaune, the first time this talented Frenchman has donned the golden tunic since 1995. "It all went pretty much according to our plan," an obviously delighted Jalabert told the post race press conference. "I'm really happy and have to thank my team most of all."
USPS made a major effort to put their leader into the Maillot Jaune as well, but the Postal squad had neither the experience nor the determination today to win the stage. But upon analysis, it looks like the situation may be most advantageous for Lance & Co., as their main rivals O.N.C.E. have all the pressure and responsibility to defend the Maillot Jaune, while USPS can sit back and wait for O.N.C.E. and Jaja to crack, just as has happened so many times before.
Wait, there's more! A 20 second time penalty levied by the race jury on the entire O.N.C.E. team's time for towing Marcos Serrano back up to the other riders (dans l'abri) after the provisional GC was issued markedly changed the composition of the top 5 riders. Before the penalty, Lance was in 5th at 44", but he moved up to 3rd at 24", with Olano back to 4th (from 3rd) at 35". Before the penalty Lance had to contend with both Jaja AND Olano in front of him on GC. Now it's just Jaja, with talented youngster Cañada an unknown commodity. O.N.C.E. is still very dangerous, with 8 riders in the top 10, including solid climbers like Pena, Luttenberger and Gutierrez, wresting the Maillot Jaune from Jaja won't be easy!
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Other winners on the day are Credit Agricole with American duo Julich and Vaughters both in the top 25, sitting pretty and ready to go on the attack when the moment is right. Their old fox director Roger Legeay, who guided Greg LeMond to two of his three Tour wins knows how to get the most out of his team, as evidenced by today's performance.
As for Telekom, it seemed as though they rode almost as hard as they could, but not quite. In that Ullrich is still only 1m07"out of the Maillot Jaune and their third place was respectable, but perhaps it seemed that they could have been closer to O.N.C.E. And USPS on time...while Mapei eventually ended up with a respectable ride for 8th.
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Of the climber's teams, Marco Pantani (Mercatone Uno) and his pink clad boys rode well. Their 9th place finish was ahead of Memory Card-Jack & Jones and close to Mapei. Banesto, Polti and Kelme were slow today as most expected, putting Pantani 5m46" out of the lead, but ahead of climbers like Richard Virenque (Polti) at 6m06", J-M Jimenez (Banesto) at 6m20"and Fernando Escartin (Kelme), who lost 6m46". Pantani is not far behind Alex Zulle either, last year's runner-up is 56th at 4m09" and one wonders if he couldn't have ridden the 70 km faster by himself.
Today's team time trial has set the stage for some great racing later on in this year's Tour. In order for the climbers to gain back time on the front runners like Jalabert, Armstrong, Olano, Ullrich et al, they have to attack in the mountains to gain back time. So hold on to your helmets folks, the real 2000 Tour De France has just begun.
Results
1 O.N.C.E.- Deutsche Bank (20 sec added) 1.25.55 (48.88 km/h) 2 US Postal Service 0.26 3 Team Deutsche Telekom 1.06 4 Credit Agricole 1.12 5 Rabobank 1.52 6 Festina Watches 1.56 7 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 2.33 8 Mapei-Quick Step 2.58 9 Mercatone Uno-Albacom 3.14 10 Memory Card Technology - Jack & Jones 3.19 11 Ag2R Prevoyance 3.57 12 Banesto 4.03 13 Team Polti 4.19 14 Kelme-Costa Blanca 4.48 15 Saeco-Valli&Valli 4.54 16 Lotto-Adecco 5.00 17 Farm Frites 5.23 18 Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 5.35 19 Francaise Des Jeux 5.47 20 Bonjour 6.25 Teams (best 3 riders): 1 O.NC.E.- Deutsche Bank 4.16.45 2 US Postal Service 2.18 3 Team Deutsche Telekom 4.18 4 Credit Agricole 4.36 5 Rabobank 6.36 6 Festina 6.48 7 Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 8.39 8 Mapei-Quick Step 9.54 9 Mercatone Uno-Albacom 10.42 10 Memorycard-Jack & Jones 10.57 11 Ag2R Prevoyance 12.51 12 Banesto 13.09 13 Team Polti 13.57 14 Kelme-Costa Blanca 15.24 15 Saeco-Valli & Valli 15.42 16 Lotto-Adecco 16.00 17 Farm Frites 17.09 18 Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 17.45 19 La Francaise Des Jeux 18.21 20 Bonjour 20.15 General classification after stage 4: 1 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Once-Deutsche Bank 10.09.10 2 David Cañada (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.12 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal Service 0.24 4 Abraham Olano (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.35 5 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 0.43 6 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.49 7 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.49 8 Marcos Serrano (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.52 9 Miguel Angel Peña (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 0.54 10 Tyler Hamilton (USA) US Postal Service 0.55 11 Peter Luttenberger (Aut) Once-Deutsche Bank 1.01 12 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom-ARD 1.07 13 Kevin Livingston (USA) US Postal Service 1.18 14 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal Service 1.33 15 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 1.36 16 Steffen Wesemann (Ger) Telekom-ARD 2.07 17 Jonathan Vaughters (USA) Crédit Agricole 2.12 18 Alberto Elli (Ita) Telekom-ARD 2.15 19 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Crédit Agricole 2.16 20 Magnus Bäckstedt (Swe) Crédit Agricole 2.19 21 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom-ARD 2.20 22 Fabrice Gougot (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.25 23 Bobby Julich (USA) Crédit Agricole 2.25 24 David Millar (Gbr) Cofidis 2.27 25 Joseba Beloki (Spa) Festina 2.32 26 David Plaza (Spa) Festina 2.36 27 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Telekom-ARD 2.37 28 Jens Heppner (Ger) Telekom-ARD 2.37 29 Félix Garcia Casas (Spa) Festina 2.46 30 Angel Casero (Spa) Festina 2.47 31 Frankie Andreu (USA) US Postal Service 2.49 32 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Festina 2.55 33 Udo Bölts (Ger) Telekom-ARD 3.00 34 Anthony Langella (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.02 35 Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank 3.13 36 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 3.13 37 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Rabobank 3.14 38 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Festina 3.20 39 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Telekom-ARD 3.24 40 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 3.32 41 David Etxebarria (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 3.33 42 Franck Vandenbroucke (Bel) Cofidis 3.36 43 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 3.38 44 Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 3.39 45 Nico Mattan (Bel) Cofidis 3.42 46 Daniele Nardello (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3.48 47 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 3.49 48 Marcel Wüst (Ger) Festina 3.49 49 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 3.52 50 Massimiliano Lelli (Ita) Cofidis 3.55 51 Chann Mc Rae (USA) Mapei-Quick Step 3.57 52 Max Van Heeswijk (Ned) Mapei-Quick Step 4.07 53 Roland Meier (Swi) Cofidis 4.11 54 Riccardo Forconi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 4.18 55 Marco Velo (Ita) Mercatone Uno 4.19 56 Alex Zülle (Swi) Banesto 4.19 57 Paolo Bettini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4.20 58 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 4.27 59 Michael Sandstød (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 4.27 60 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Mapei-Quick Step 4.31 61 Ermanno Brignoli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 4.40 62 Gilles Maignan (Fra) Ag2R 4.42 63 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 4.47 64 Anthony Morin (Fra) Crédit Agricole 4.50 65 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 4.54 66 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Banesto 5.02 67 Arturas Kasputis (Ltu) Ag2R 5.02 68 Lauri Aus (Est) Ag2R 5.03 69 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Ag2R 5.05 70 Enrico Zaina (Ita) Mercatone Uno 5.12 71 Chris Peers (Bel) Cofidis 5.13 72 Benoït Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 5.14 73 Martin Rittsel (Swe) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 5.14 74 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Banesto 5.18 75 Jon Odriozola (Spa) Banesto 5.18 76 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Banesto 5.21 77 Christophe Agnolutto (Fra) Ag2R 5.22 78 Steffen Kjaergaard (Nor) US Postal Service 5.23 79 Marco Pantani (Ita) Mercatone Uno 5.26 80 David Delrieu (Fra) Ag2R 5.32 81 Allan Johansen (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 5.40 82 Vicente Garcia-Acosta (Spa) Banesto 5.41 83 Jacky Durand (Fra) Lotto-Adecco 5.42 84 Bo Hamburger (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 5.42 85 Jesper Skibby (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 5.44 86 Santiago Botero (Col) Kelme Costa Blanca 5.44 87 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 5.44 88 Richard Virenque (Fra) Team Polti 5.46 89 Andrei Kivilev (Kaz) Ag2R 5.47 90 Antonio Tauler (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 5.50 91 Benoït Salmon (Fra) Ag2R 5.51 92 José Maria Jimenez (Spa) Banesto 6.00 93 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 6.00 94 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 6.02 95 Orlando Rodrigues (Por) Banesto 6.04 96 Bart Voskamp (Ned) Team Polti 6.07 97 Pascal Herve (Fra) Team Polti 6.12 98 Roberto Heras (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 6.15 99 Fernando Escartin (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 6.16 100 Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6.17 101 Fabio Sacchi (Ita) Team Polti 6.19 102 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) US Postal Service 6.21 103 Leonardo Piepoli (Ita) Banesto 6.23 104 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Saeco-Valli&Valli 6.25 105 Guido Trentin (Ita) Vini Caldirola 6.26 106 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 6.27 107 Enrico Cassani (Ita) Team Polti 6.28 108 Nicolay Bo Larsen (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 6.28 109 Massimo Podenzana (Ita) Mercatone Uno 6.33 110 Pascal Lino (Fra) Festina 6.39 111 Servais Knaven (Ned) Farm Frites 6.40 112 Kurt Van De Wouwer (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6.41 113 Javier Pascual Llorente (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 6.42 114 Paolo Savoldelli (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 6.43 115 Paul Van Hyfte (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 6.46 116 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola 6.48 117 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Farm Frites 6.49 118 Jans Koerts (Ned) Farm Frites 6.52 119 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 6.54 120 Arvis Piziks (Ltu) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 6.57 121 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Vini Caldirola 7.01 122 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R 7.04 123 Gianluca Bortolami (Ita) Vini Caldirola 7.05 124 Armin Meier (Swi) Saeco-Valli&Valli 7.07 125 Mario Aerts (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.08 126 Serge Baguet (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.15 127 José Angel Vidal (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 7.18 128 Gian Matteo Fagnini (Ita) Telekom-ARD 7.18 129 Javier Otxoa (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 7.21 130 Carlos Alberto Contreras (Col) Kelme Costa Blanca 7.23 131 Sébastien Demarbaix (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.23 132 Glenn Magnusson (Swe) Farm Frites 7.24 133 Frank Høj (Den) La Française des Jeux 7.24 134 Mauro Radaelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola 7.26 135 Laurent Madouas (Fra) Festina 7.26 136 Thierry Marichal (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 7.30 137 Roberto Conti (Ita) Vini Caldirola 7.30 138 Geert Van Bondt (Bel) Farm Frites 7.32 139 Stéphane Heulot (Fra) La Française des Jeux 7.36 140 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Française des Jeux 7.37 141 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Vini Caldirola 7.40 142 Filippo Casagrande (Ita) Vini Caldirola 7.42 143 Didier Rous (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 7.47 144 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 7.49 145 Daniel Atienza (Spa) Saeco-Valli&Valli 7.50 146 Michel Lafis (Swe) Farm Frites 8.00 147 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Farm Frites 8.06 148 Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 8.13 149 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 8.15 150 Grégory Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Française des Jeux 8.16 151 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 8.17 152 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 8.19 153 Xavier Jan (Fra) La Française des Jeux 8.20 154 Jeroen Blijlevens (Ned) Team Polti 8.21 155 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 8.28 156 Franck Bouyer (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 8.29 157 Andreas Klier (Ger) Farm Frites 8.31 158 Mario Scirea (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 8.34 159 Pascal Derame (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 8.41 160 Francisco Leon (Spa) Kelme Costa Blanca 8.42 161 Laurent Desbiens (Fra) Cofidis 8.42 162 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Française des Jeux 8.44 163 Mirco Crepaldi (Ita) Team Polti 8.46 164 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 8.53 165 Marcello Siboni (Ita) Mercatone Uno 8.54 166 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 9.03 167 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 9.03 168 Leon Van Bon (Ned) Rabobank 9.08 169 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 9.13 170 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 9.16 171 Christophe Faudot (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 9.30 172 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Saeco-Valli&Valli 9.33 173 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 11.34 174 Markus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 12.02 175 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 16.53 176 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Lotto-Adecco 22.13 177 Rafael Mateos (Spa) Team Polti 23.59 Points classification: 1 Tom Steels (Bel) Mapei-Quick Step 70 pts 2 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Crédit Agricole 54 3 Marcel Wüst (Ger) Festina 52 4 Erik Zabel (Ger) Telekom-ARD 52 5 Romans Vainsteins (Lat) Vini Caldirola 41 6 Jans Koerts (Ned) Farm Frites 40 7 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 38 8 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 36 9 Jaan Kirsipuu (Est) Ag2R 33 10 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Vini Caldirola 31 11 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Farm Frites 29 12 David Millar (Gbr) Cofidis 26 13 Jacky Durand (Fra) Lotto-Adecco 26 14 Christophe Mengin (Fra) La Française des Jeux 23 15 Damien Nazon (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 20 16 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 19 17 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Telekom-ARD 18 18 Emmanuel Magnien (Fra) La Française des Jeux 17 19 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 16 20 Stefano Zanini (Ita) Mapei-Quick Step 15 21 Markus Zberg (Swi) Rabobank 15 22 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 14 23 Lance Armstrong (Usa) US Postal Service 12 24 Fabiano Fontanelli (Ita) Mercatone Uno 12 25 Arvis Piziks (Ltu) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 12 26 Olivier Perraudeau (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 12 27 Laurent Jalabert (Fra) Once-Deutsche Bank 11 28 Massimo Apollonio (Ita) Vini Caldirola 11 29 Tristan Hoffman (Ned) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 11 30 Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Française des Jeux 10 31 Frank Høj (Den) La Française des Jeux 9 32 Massimiliano Mori (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 8 33 David Cañada (Spa) Once-Deutsche Bank 6 34 Pascal Chanteur (Fra) Ag2R 6 35 Alex Zülle (Swi) Banesto 5 36 Vjatceslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal Service 4 37 Jaime Hernandez (Spa) Festina 4 38 Simone Borgheresi (Ita) Mercatone Uno 3 39 Andreas Klier (Ger) Farm Frites 3 40 Grégory Gwiazdowski (Pol) La Française des Jeux 3 41 Tyler Hamilton (Usa) US Postal Service 2 42 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 2 43 Jan Boven (Ned) Rabobank 1 Climbers classification: 1 Marcel Wüst (Ger) Festina 5 pts 2 Frankie Andreu (Usa) US Postal Service 3 3 François Simon (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 1 Teams classification: 1 O.N.C.E.-Deutsche Bank 30.28.17 2 US Postal Service 1.15 3 Team Deutsche Telekom 4.33 4 Credit Agricole 5.27 5 Festina 6.49 6 Rabobank 7.32 7 Cofidis 8.59 8 Mapei-Quick Step 10.24 9 Mercatone Uno-Albacom 11.27 10 Ag2R Prevoyance 13.42 11 Memorycard-Jack & Jones 13.46 12 Banesto 13.52 13 Kelme-Costa Blanca 17.02 14 Team Polti 17.18 15 Saeco-Valli & Valli 17.49 16 Lotto-Adecco 18.05 17 Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 19.12 18 Farm Frites 19.13 19 La Francaise Des Jeux 21.32 20 Bonjour 23.20 Combativity classification: 1 Jens Voigt (Ger) Crédit Agricole 24 pts 2 Michael Blaudzun (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 21 3 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 20 4 Jacky Durand (Fra) Lotto-Adecco 19 5 Pascal Derame (Fra) Bonjour-Toupargel 6 6 Michael Sandstød (Den) Memorycard-Jack&Jones 1 7 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco-Valli&Valli 1 Best young rider classification: 1 David Cañada (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Deutsche Bank 10.09.22 2 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) O.N.C.E.-Deutsche Bank 0.37 3 Magnus Backstedt (Swe) Credit Agricole 2.07 4 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis 2.15 5 Grischa Niermann (Ger) Rabobank 3.26 6 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis 4.42 7 Benoit Joachim (Lux) US Postal Service 5.02 8 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Banesto 5.06 9 Dario Pieri (Ita) Saeco-Valli & Valli 5.32 10 Guido Trentin (Ita) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 6.14 11 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Saeco-Valli & Valli 6.15 12 Sven Montgomery (Swi) La Francaise Des Jeux 7.25 13 Zoran Klemencic (Slo) Vini Caldirola-Sidermec 7.28 14 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Cofidis 8.03 15 Andreas Klier (Ger) Farm Frites 8.19 16 Jean Patrick Nazon (Fra) La Francaise Des Jeux 11.22 17 Rafael Mateos (Spa) Team Polti 23.47