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The 56th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 2.HC
France, June 6-13, 2004
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Stage 3 - June 9: Saint-Etienne - Aubenas, 180 km
Portal opens the door to the Tour
Buffalo Gutierrez keeps lead; Tomorrow...Le Mont Ventoux
By Tim Maloney, European Editor in Aubenas
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It's on everybody's mind, that big white monster of a mountain looming on the horizon like Moby Dick. But before the peloton could turn its collective attention to tomorrow's terrible time test up Le Mont Ventoux, first there was Stage 3's 180kmto get through: a hot, hard ride across the tough climbs of the Cevennes. Like the Basque country, the Cevennes is a coal mining region and Euskaltel-Euskadi rider Iker Flores tried to turn the tables today on Phonak's race leader José Gutierrez like he pulled on the Basque team yesterday, and take back the yellow and blue leader's jersey of the Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré. In the end it was former mountain biker Nicolas Portal (Ag2r Prevoyance) who turned the tables on Flores and his other break partner, Estonian champion Janek Tombak (Cofidis), to get away on the final winding ascent to the hill town of Aubenas for the win.
After pouring a litre of cold water over his head on the 35 degree day, a delighted Portal exclaimed, "It was a really good win for me today. I have to thank my team, who have believed in me all along, and my physical therapist who has helped me with my back problems."
Portal's Ag2r team manager Vincent Lavenu was also happy with Portal's result. "He's a good young rider, Portal. He's had some physical problems this season, but he has a lot of character. Today he scored a lot of points towards being selected to ride the Tour de France."
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Flores and the Euskaltel mob didn't manage to shake Phonak's José Gutierrez from the race lead today. Nicknamed Buffalo, the big ex-Kelme man has no illusions about his chances tomorrow on le Mont Ventoux. "I'm happy to have the lead now, but I am no specialist at this type of uphill TT, so I just hope I can follow Iban Mayo for as long as possible when he passes me."
Winning the group sprint for fourth today, Cofidis man Stuart O'Grady had donned the Maillot Vert as Dauphiné Libéré points leader. "I'm feeling really, really good; my form in the last few weeks has been even surprising to me. It's called confidence...I've been lacking it for quite a while, with all the turmoil of the season. But the last five races, I haven't finished any further back than fifth, so it's kind of snowballing now. It's been a tough middle of a season and now I can't wait for the Tour De France."
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Cyclingnews asked O'Grady if his ambition in the French tour was focused on wearing the Maillot Vert there, and his ambitious answer was brimming with confidence. "Hopefully I'll have a shade of Yellow (Jersey) before and then a Green one...the Tour De France is a special race and I'm not going in with any obligations. You just give it 100 percent whenever the opportunity arises and hopefully the results will follow that."
Like everyone else, Lance Armstrong had a hot, hard race today, but Armstrong's stage may have had a slight advantage on the other 92 members of the Dauphiné peloton. Armstrong finished 9th today in the same group as O'Grady, testing a new Trek Madone prototype before his ascent of le Mont Ventoux tomorrow. "Light" was the one word a smiling Armstrong said to Cyclingnews this morning at the start in St. Etienne.
How it unfolded
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The 95 strong Dauphiné Libéré peloton left St.Etienne this Wednesday at 11:30 on a hot summer morning, the city where Cofidis rider Andrei "Kivi" Kivilev lost his life last year from a crash in Paris-Nice. The pace was easy on the way to the first climb of the day, the 12 km ascent of the Col de la Republique. The Dauphiné riders knew they were in for a hot one today, as the temperatures were already in the upper 20's. Jerome Pineau (Brioches Boulanger) opened the hostilities with an attack near the summit and this opened the floodgates for multiple attacks down the Republique descent.
It was a short transition to the next ascent of the Cat.3 Col de la Burdignes after 30 km, where Iker Flores (Euskaltel-Euskadi) attacked and was first over the top, with Tombak (Cofidis) and Portal chasing at 0'20 and the Phonak led peloton at 0'40. Pineau bridged on the descent and after 40 km, the peloton stopped chasing and the front quartet began to gain ground fast. At the sprint in Quintenas after 55km, the temperature was 32 degrees and climbing as Tombak took the points and Pineau followed his team director's orders and sat up to wait for the peloton chasing 2'45 behind. Up and down on the accidented terrain, the trio forged on towards Aubenas with a solid lead of 4'45 after 120 km.
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With 36 km to go at the summit of the Cat.2 Col de Mezilhac, Iker Flores had attacked the break and was flying towards Aubenas, 1'15 ahead of former break companions Tombak and Portal with the peloton at 5'10. On the difficult descent, Brioches rider Pichon went off the road and flew into a 15m deep ravine. He sustained a head trauma, facial injuries and possible broken leg and arm, but regained consciousness. Portal and Tombak caught Flores on the descent to Aubenas with 15 km to go. On the tricky, winding climb into Aubenas, Portal attacked with 5 km to go and rode home the winner, while O'Grady took the group sprint for fourth, 1'49 behind.
Stage 4 - June 10: Bedoin-le Mont Ventoux ITT, 21.6km
One the most legendary climbs in cycling history, a victory at the summit of the long, tough ascent of Le Mont Ventoux (the windy mountain) is one of the most cherished trophies in the two wheel sport. Mont Ventoux is an extinct volcano that looms 1909m above the Provençal countryside and above the treeline after le Chalet Reynard at 1500m of altitude, the bare white rock field reflects the sun like a diabolical mirror. Thursday's weather report offers highs in the low thirties, with a south-west wind of 15km/h that will provide a tailwind on the first 5.7 km stretch to the virage di St.Esteve.
American Lance Armstrong has never won atop le Mont Ventoux and for the tough Texan, it will be an addition to his palmares that will have a double meaning. Why? This morning, Armstrong called the Ventoux ascent relentless and the five time Tour champion wants to test himself and his special equipment before the l'Alpe d'Huez TT in next month's Tour De France.
The record up le Mont Ventoux is also the property of another American, Lance's former USPS teammate Jonathan Vaughters. The Colorado climber clocked 56'50 five years ago in the Dauphiné, beating the not yet Tour De France winner Armstrong by 0'58 and Hamilton by 2'19! It makes you wonder what Vaughters would have done if he hadn't crashed out of the Tour de France that year.
Lance's main rivals for his big test tomorrow will clearly be Iban Mayo, Phonak riders Hamilton and Sevilla, Rabobankers Leipheimer and Rasmussen, Cofidis's Moncoutié and perhaps Credit Agricole's Christophe Moreau. Look for USPS-Berry Floor's Floyd Landis to have a good day; he's been climbing exceptionally well in training in hot Southern California
Photography
Images by AFP Photo
- José Gutierrez (Phonak) rides in the leader's jersey during stage 3
- Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) getting used to the heat
- Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) paces his teammate and race leader José Gutierrez
- David Millar (Cofidis) What you looking at?'
- Nicolas Portal (Ag2r) launches the winning move, dropping Tombak and Flores
- Nicolas Portal (Ag2r) wins the third stage of the Dauphine Libere
Images by Tim Maloney/Cyclingnews.com
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) with his new light bike
Results
1 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.41.42 2 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.51 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.49 5 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 6 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 7 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 9 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 10 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 13 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 14 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 15 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 17 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 18 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 19 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 21 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 22 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1.54 23 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 24 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 25 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 1.55 26 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 27 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 28 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 29 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 30 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 31 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 32 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 33 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 34 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 José Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 36 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 37 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 39 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 40 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 41 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 42 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 43 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 44 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 45 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 46 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 2.04 47 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 48 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.06 49 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 50 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 51 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 52 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 53 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 54 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 2.12 55 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 56 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 57 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 2.19 58 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 59 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 60 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 61 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 62 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 63 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 64 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 2.28 65 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 66 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 67 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 68 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 2.36 69 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 70 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 71 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 2.42 72 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 73 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2.55 74 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 75 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.07 76 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 77 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3.21 78 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 3.27 79 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 80 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 3.43 81 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 3.57 82 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 83 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.13 84 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4.24 85 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 5.04 86 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 5.26 87 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 88 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 7.27 89 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 10.37 90 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12.22 91 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 92 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 13.16 93 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank DNF Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance DNF Mickael Pichon (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere Points 1 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 20 pts 2 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 17 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 4 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 13 5 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 11 6 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 10 7 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 8 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 9 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7 10 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 11 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 12 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 4 13 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 14 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 15 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Mountains Col De La Republique km 12 1 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 20 pts 2 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 15 3 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 12 4 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 10 5 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 6 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6 7 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 4 8 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 2 10 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 1 Cote De Burdignes km 30 1 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 pts 2 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 5 3 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 3 4 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 2 5 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 1 Col Des Nonieres km 111 1 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 pts 2 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 3 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3 4 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2 5 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Col De Mezilhac km 144 1 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 20 pts 2 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 15 3 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 12 4 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 10 5 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 8 6 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 7 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 8 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 9 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 10 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Sprints Saint-Felicien km 76 1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6 pts 2 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 Le Cheylard km 120 1 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6 pts 2 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4 3 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2 Teams 1 Ag2R Prevoyance 14.08.56 2 Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.39 3 Cofidis 0.45 4 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.37 5 US Postal presented by Berry Floor 6 Brioches La Boulangere 1.43 7 FDJeux.com 1.49 8 Quick Step - Davitamon 9 Credit Agricole 10 R.A.G.T. Semences - MG Rover 1.55 11 Rabobank 2.07 12 Team CSC 2.11 General classification after stage 3 1 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.31.52 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.08 3 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.09 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 0.10 5 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 7 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.14 8 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 0.18 9 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.19 10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 0.20 11 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 0.22 12 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.27 13 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.28 14 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 15 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.30 16 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 0.32 17 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 18 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 0.34 19 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 0.36 21 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.37 22 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 0.38 23 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 0.41 24 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 0.42 25 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 0.47 26 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 0.49 27 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 0.52 28 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 0.53 30 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 0.54 31 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 0.55 32 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 0.57 33 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 0.58 34 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 1.01 35 José Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 1.06 36 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.07 37 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1.09 38 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 1.11 39 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1.18 40 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 1.23 41 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1.35 42 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2.56 43 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 4.41 44 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5.28 45 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 6.16 46 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.37 47 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 7.55 48 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 8.00 49 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 8.08 50 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 8.24 51 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 8.41 52 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 8.46 53 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8.49 54 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 8.56 55 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 9.02 56 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 9.04 57 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 9.05 58 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 9.11 59 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 9.21 60 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 9.26 61 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.36 62 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 9.39 63 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 9.58 64 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 10.10 65 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 10.23 66 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 10.29 67 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 10.39 68 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 10.58 69 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 11.29 70 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 17.45 71 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 18.27 72 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 18.49 73 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 18.53 74 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 19.00 75 Nicolas Inaudi (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 19.04 76 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 19.11 77 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 78 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 19.25 79 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 20.07 80 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 20.23 81 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 21.07 82 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 21.10 83 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22.07 84 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22.22 85 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 22.44 86 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 23.35 87 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 25.04 88 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 29.29 89 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 30.09 90 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 30.55 91 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 31.34 92 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 32.11 93 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 33.51 Points classification 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 45 pts 2 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 44 3 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 4 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 29 5 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 28 6 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 7 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 8 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 23 9 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 23 10 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 22 11 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 20 12 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 13 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 17 14 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 17 15 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 16 16 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 14 17 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 18 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 11 19 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 11 20 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 21 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 10 22 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 10 23 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 24 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 9 25 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 8 26 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 27 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 28 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 29 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7 30 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7 31 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 6 32 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 6 33 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 34 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5 35 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 5 36 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 4 37 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 3 38 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 2 39 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 40 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 2 41 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 42 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 1 43 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 44 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1 Mountains classification 1 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 43 pts 2 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 3 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 28 4 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 23 5 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 22 6 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 21 7 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 20 8 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 9 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 15 10 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 12 11 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 12 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 13 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 14 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 15 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 16 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 17 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 18 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5 19 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 5 20 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 5 21 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 22 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 23 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 24 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 25 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 26 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 2 27 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 1 28 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 29 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 30 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 1 Combination classification 1 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 105 pts 2 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 75 3 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 66 4 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 63 5 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 53 6 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 52 7 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 51 8 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 50 9 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 48 10 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 47 11 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 43 12 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 28 13 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 24 14 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 24 15 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 23 16 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 21 17 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 20 18 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 19 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 16 20 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13 21 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 11 22 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 11 23 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Rabobank 11 24 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 9 25 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 26 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 7 27 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 28 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 4 29 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 4 Teams classification 1 Ag2R Prevoyance 46.35.34 2 Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.06 3 Phonak Hearing Systems 0.29 4 US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1.04 5 Brioches La Boulangere 1.39 6 Quick Step - Davitamon 1.42 7 Credit Agricole 1.44 8 FDJeux.com 1.59 9 Team CSC 2.08 10 Cofidis 7.26 11 Rabobank 9.49 12 R.A.G.T. Semences - MG Rover 10.41
