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33rd Tour Méditerranéen - 2.1
France, February 8-12, 2006
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Stage 3 - February 9: La Garde - La Garde TTT, 18 km
Credit Agricole wins tightly contested TTT
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The Credit Agricole team triumphed by just 0.06 of a second over Francaise des Jeux in the 18 km team time trial around La Garde this afternoon. The stage was very tightly contested, with Pietro Caucchioli (CA), Tomas Lovkvist (FDJ) and Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne) all jousting for the general classification through their teams. And although Credit Agricole finished on top, Caucchioli is still third on GC, behind leader Gutierrez and Lovvkist, who share the same time.
Tomorrow's fourth stage is 91 km between Saint-Laurent-du-Var and Menton, and includes the Cat. 1 col de Madone with 15 km to go.
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- Francaise des Jeux ended the stage in second
- AG2R put in a solid effort to finish the stage in fifth
- Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears were able to take third on the stage and keep their man in yellow
- Credit Agricole were strong on their way to securing the stage win
- Team Milram were a little off the pace today
- Lampre finished in fourth
- Credit Agricole on the podium after winning stage 3
- Ivan Gutierrez (Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears) retained the race lead after stage 3
- Cofidis had a mixed day with their ninth-placed finish in stage 3
- Quick Step were a little bit off the pace in seventh
- Agritubel did ok considering they're one of the smaller teams in the field
- Unibet.com found it hard to get it together
- Acqua & Sapone made another good push as they finished eighth on stage 3
- Francaise des Jeux work well together on their way to second
- The leader's yellow jersey sits among the Caisse d'Epargne ranks
- Credit Agricole rocked as they won the stage
- Team Milram string it out a bit as they failed to get well-organised
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- Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears bring it through a corner well
- Cofidis were able to take a top-ten place on the stage
- Credit Agricole kept it together really well to win the stage
- Great formation from Credit Agricole
- No gaps in that line for the Credit Agricole boys
- Even through the corners the green machine stayed together better than anyone else
- Ivan Gutierrez on the podium at the end of the second day
- Gutierrez rides confidently on the front for his team
- Lampre had a pretty good day with a fourth place in the TTT
Results
1 Credit Agricole 18.22,34 2 Francaise des Jeux 0,06 3 Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 2,29 4 Lampre 5,07 5 Ag2R - Revoyance 6,66 6 Team Milram 8,92 7 Quick Step-Innergeti 33,26 8 Acqua & Sapone 38,80 9 Cofidis 48,05 10 Miche 55,15 11 Agritubel 58,66 12 Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 1.00,07 13 Skil-Shimano 1.13,67 14 Unibet.com 1.16,44 15 Naturino - Sapore di Mare 2.05,63 General classification after stage 3 1 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 5.44.56 2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 3 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agicole 0.04 4 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agicole 0.15 5 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.24 6 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 0.31 7 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 0.34 8 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 0.40 9 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone 0.41 10 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 0.51 11 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 0.56 12 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 1.03 13 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agicole 14 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 1.10 15 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.12 16 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 1.17 17 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 1.38 18 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agicole 1.45 19 Antonio D'aniello (Ita) Miche 1.56 20 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 2.14 21 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 2.19 22 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 2.33 23 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 2.41 24 Pasquale Muto (Ita) Miche 2.44 25 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.48 26 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 2.49 27 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 28 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 29 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick Step-Innergeti 30 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2.57 31 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 2.59 32 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 3.03 33 Przemyslaw Niemiec (Pol) Miche 3.06 34 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 3.15 35 Johan Coenen (Bel) Unibet.com 3.20 36 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis 3.34 37 Paul Crake (Aus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 3.44 38 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3.49 39 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 4.04 40 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 4.24 41 Matteo Carrara (Ita) Lampre 4.28 42 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 4.29 43 René Weissinger (Ger) Skil-Shimano 4.31 44 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel 4.38 45 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 4.46 46 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5.53 47 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 6.18 48 Murilo Antonio Fischer (Bra) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 6.29 49 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 6.39 50 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agicole 51 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre 6.44 52 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 6.48 53 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 6.54 54 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 6.57 55 Thierry Marichal (Fra) Cofidis 7.06 56 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 7.12 57 Bingen Fernandez (Spa) Cofidis 58 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 7.18 59 Aitor Perez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 7.21 60 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 7.22 61 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance 7.30 62 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 7.45 63 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agicole 8.00 64 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 8.09 65 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 8.11 66 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 8.12 67 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 8.14 68 José Alberto Martinez (Spa) Agritubel 8.18 69 Seweryn Zenon Kohut (Pol) Miche 8.23 70 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 8.29 71 Eric Berthou (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 8.32 72 Maurizio Carta (Ita) Miche 8.44 73 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 8.55 74 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 9.19 75 Marco Serpellini (Ita) Unibet.com 9.19 76 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 9.25 77 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 9.31 78 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 9.35 79 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 9.35 80 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 9.42 81 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 10.06 82 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil-Shimano 10.33 83 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua Sapone 10.56 84 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Team Milram 10.56 85 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 11.11 86 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 11.43 87 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 12.02 88 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 12.06 89 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 90 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 12.28 91 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.39 92 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 13.16 93 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prevoyance 14.01 94 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 14.03 95 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone 14.33 96 Alejandro Albe Borrajo (Arg) Miche 14.49 97 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 14.53 98 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 14.54 99 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Miche 15.00 100 Crescenzo D'amore (Ita) Acqua Sapone 15.06 101 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15.08 102 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil-Shimano 103 Rik Reinerink (Ned) Skil-Shimano 104 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 105 Jonas Ljungblad (Swe) Unibet.com 15.10 106 Jeremy Hunt (GBr) Unibet.com 15.44 107 Sergio Marinangeli (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 15.59 108 Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 16.01 109 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 16.03 110 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 16.13 111 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua Sapone 16.29 112 Stéphane Berges (Fra) Agritubel 16.32 113 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua Sapone 17.07 Points classification 1 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 29 pts 2 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 25 3 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 25 4 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agicole 21 5 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram 21 6 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone 16 7 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agicole 16 8 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 16 9 Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre 15 10 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 12 11 Leonardo Bertagnolli (Ita) Cofidis 10 12 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 10 13 Isaac Galvez Lopez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 10 14 Alexandre Usov (Blr) Ag2R Prevoyance 10 15 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 9 16 Mirko Celestino (Ita) Team Milram 8 17 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Unibet.com 7 18 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Credit Agicole 7 19 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Credit Agicole 7 20 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 6 21 Gabriele Balducci (Ita) Acqua Sapone 6 22 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergeti 5 23 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 5 24 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 5 25 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 5 26 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 5 27 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 4 28 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 4 29 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 4 30 Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 4 31 Joaquin Rodriguez Oliver (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 4 32 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3 33 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 3 34 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre 3 35 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 3 36 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 3 37 Bradley Mcgee (Aus) Francaise Des Jeux 2 38 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 2 39 Mark Scanlon (Irl) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 40 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 41 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Unibet.com 1 42 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1 43 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 1 44 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Team Milram 1 Mountains classification 1 Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Credit Agicole 14 pts 2 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis 12 3 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 10 4 Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Agritubel 10 5 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 7 6 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 6 7 Rinaldo Nocentini (Ita) Acqua Sapone 5 8 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 5 9 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Credit Agicole 3 10 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil-Shimano 3 11 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agicole 2 12 Matheus Pronk (Ned) Unibet.com 2 13 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre 2 14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 1 15 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 Young rider classification 1 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 5.44.56 2 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Credit Agicole 0.40 3 Alexander Arekeev (Rus) Acqua Sapone 0.51 4 Yannick Talabardon (Fra) Credit Agicole 1.03 5 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 1.17 6 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis 2.41 7 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.48 8 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Team Milram 2.57 9 Benjamin Johnson (Aus) Agritubel 3.15 10 Rémy Di Gregorio (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 4.24 11 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre 4.29 12 Paul Martens (Ger) Skil-Shimano 5.53 13 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 6.39 14 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Team Milram 6.48 15 Alexandre Bazhenov (Rus) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 6.54 16 Juan Pablo Magallanes (Mex) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 6.57 17 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quick Step-Innergeti 7.12 18 Marco Marcato (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 7.18 19 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 8.29 20 Martin Mares (Cze) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 8.55 21 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Credit Agicole 9.25 22 Geoffroy Lequatre (Fra) Cofidis 9.35 23 Armando Rupa (Ita) Miche 9.42 24 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre 10.06 25 Cristian Bonfanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 11.11 26 Stefan Cohnen (Ned) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 11.43 27 Luca Ascani (Ita) Naturino - Sapore Di Mare 12.02 28 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 12.06 29 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne - Illes Balears 30 Maurizio Bellin (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 12.28 31 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.39 32 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 13.16 33 Jure Zrimsek (Slo) Acqua Sapone 14.33 34 Hans Dekkers (Ned) Agritubel 14.53 35 Massimo Mazzanti (Ita) Androni Giocattoli - 3C Casalinghi 14.54 36 Kenny Robert Van Hummel (Ned) Skil-Shimano 15.08 37 Christoph Meschenmoser (Ger) Skil-Shimano 38 Moises Duenas Nevado (Spa) Agritubel 16.03
