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The 56th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - 2.HC
France, June 6-13, 2004
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Stage 5 - June 11: Bollène - Sisteron, 149 km
Big Day! Stuey breaks through for the team
Hincapie superb runner-up in Sisteron
By Tim Maloney, European Editor in Sisteron
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"Big day...I'm stuffed", an exhausted, delighted Stuart O'Grady told Cyclingnews on Avenue Liberté in Sisteron today after his terrific Dauphiné Libéré stage win in Sisteron, his second this season and 37th career pro bouquet. "Our team really deserved a win this week...after a few close calls and a few tactical errors, but the team has just been absolutely fantastic. This morning at our team meeting, we decided that all the eggs were in my basket and no matter what, I had to get in the break and try and win today."
It's been a rotten spring for Stuey and the Cofidis mob, what with the enforced stop for the troubled team over a doping scandal. But adversity can sometimes bring unity to a difficult situation and O'Grady has shown great leadership during the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré to get his squad ready for the upcoming Tour De France.
With 60 kilometres to go, O'Grady and Hincapie had a chat in the day's breakaway and the freckle-faced rider from Adelaide knew he had to play his cards right. "I realized that with two US Postal riders, I had to go with one of them. And I didn't want to go too late. When I did attack, it was just a matter of psychological warfare with the other guys behind."
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O'Grady described his dynamic duo with Hincapie by saying, "Man, we were going and the guys behind would have to be going really hard to get us." Somewhat of an understatement, considering the talent and power of both riders. "It was a hardcore day; we could see them just behind most of the break, but I knew if we could get over that hill the second time, there was absolutely no way we were going to get caught."
His blue USPS-Berry Floor jersey crusted with white sweat salt, big George Hincapie seemed a little disappointed at not winning today in Sisteron, but just a little. Hincapie explained post race to the media scrum that "Stuart and I both did an all out effort today...I knew that he is faster than me in sprints, but I took the risk that he was more tired than me today. We went mano a mano today and he still won", smiled Hincapie.
"I'm disappointed; I wanted to win...I haven't raced in a while and I thought I would try to go in the break and it worked. We both worked at the limit today; there was no holding back if we were going to stay away."
Hincapie made his move with O'Grady with 40km to go after a chat with Lance Armstrong. "I was sitting in the back talking to Lance and I told him I was going to the front to check the situation out. Then I got in the break! It was one of those days that I knew I wouldn't get in the break," joked Hincapie, who then headed to the Dauphiné podium to where he was awarded the prize for Most Combative Rider of the day.
Third place went to the improving Baden Cooke (FDJ.Com) over Jerome Pineau (Brioches), while USPS-Berry Floor's Victor Peña hung on for 9th, 3'00 ahead "I had to win today, since I'm not going to win tomorrow", O'Grady joked about Saturday's difficult mountain stage.
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Maillot Jaune/Bleu Mayo and Lance Armstrong finished in the peloton six minutes behind. Armstrong's number one fan Sheryl Crow was waiting for her man in Sisteron, which is certain to give him some additional motivation. A confident Iban Mayo said post-race that, "Today's stage was what I thought it would be like, with attacks and a good break. It was a good test for the team, since this is a young group here without experience, so they need work to control the race. We wanted to check how it would work out, because we hope we can defend the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France. My Ventoux win yesterday gave me more motivation than ever for the Tour and more reasons to believe I can win it. As for tomorrow, I don't know the parcours, but I expect that Phonak and Armstrong will attack me, but I'm in top form now."
How it unfolded
On a warm early afternoon in Bollene in the Rhone River valley, 87 riders headed east towards Sisteron into the rocky back country of central Provence. As the parcours went from Vaucluse into the Drome there were many attacks, but nothing stuck until 37 km when nine riders made a break, including Krivtsov (Ag2r), two Australians, O'Grady (Cofidis) and Cooke, Hincapie and Peña (USPS-Berry Floor), Fedrigo (Credit Agricole), Jalabert (Phonak), Pineau (Brioches) and De Groot (Rabobank) The lead was 6'10" at the Col de la Mevouillon where Pineau took the KOM points ahead of De Groot. On the next KOM on the Col de la Pigiere, De Groot turned the tables on Pineau.
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The break pounded along towards the two 11 km finishing circuits, including the steep 1km Cote du Thor climb, but after 104km, O'Grady attacked hard and Hincapie went with him. The move blew the break apart, with Jalabert, Pineau and Cooke chasing. 10km later, the two attackers had 0'30 on the remains of the chasing break and at the start of the first finishing circuit, Stuey and George were 0'42 ahead of the chasers, with the Euskaltel led peloton at 7'35".
O'Grady and Hincapie were determined to stay away and collaborated perfectly until the last 200 meters, when Stuey sprinted in to victory, just ahead of the USPS-Berry Floor man. Cooke was third, 1'33 behind, while break rider Victor Hugo Peña rolled in 9th, 3'00 ahead of the peloton where Hushovd took the bunch sprint 6'12 behind O'Grady. Both Dauphiné leader Mayo, Hamilton and Armstrong finished quietly in the peloton.
Stage 6 - June 12: Gap-Grenoble 144km
This penultimate stage of the 56th Criterium du Dauphiné Libéré is the queen stage of the week-long race. Saturday's stage opens with the climb out of Gap of Col Bayard then heads north across the Departement of Isere. After 56 kilometres, Stage 6 begins to climb in earnest for 30 kilometres across La Mure, Col de Malissol, through the feed zone and then up Col de la Morte after 85km.
Stage 6 plunges down to Sechilienne, then ascends the seldom scaled and very difficult 9km, 9.5% average grade Col du Luitel. After the Ventoux, this long, steep ascent will be the most difficult climbing challenge of the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, where a selection will likely be made among the favorites. Charly Gaul made a brilliant attack on this climb when he won the Tour De France in 1958 to win the stage from Briançon from Aix-les-Bains by almost 8'00. Then it's down to Uriage with 21.5km to race, then two more small climbs with a dangerous, sinuous descent of the Cote des 4 Seigneurs, just before the finish on Grenoble's boulevard Clemenceau.
Photography
Images by AFP Photo
- Iban Mayo (Euskaltel) at the start
- Iban Mayo (Euskaltel) well protected by his teammates during stage 5
- Iban Mayo (Euskaltel) descends and eats at the same time
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) in action during stage 5
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) in good spirits again
- Lance Armstrong (USPS-Berry Floor) next to Tyler Hamilton in stage 5
- Tyler Hamilton (Phonak) rides ahead of Oscar Pereiro during stage 5
- Erik Dekker (Rabobank) in the mountains jersey
- Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) on the attack in stage 5
- Stuart O'Grady leads George Hincapie in their two man breakaway
- Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) beats George Hincapie (USPS) across the line to win stage 5
- Stuart O'Grady (Cofidis) in his preferred green points jersey
Results
1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.13.21 (46.237 km/h) 2 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 1.33 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.14 6 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 3.09 7 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 3.11 9 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3.16 10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 6.12 11 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 12 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 13 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 14 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 15 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 16 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 17 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 18 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 19 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 20 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 21 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 22 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 23 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 24 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 26 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 27 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 28 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 29 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 30 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 31 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 33 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 34 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 35 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 36 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 37 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 38 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 39 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 40 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 41 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 42 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 43 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 44 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 45 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 46 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 47 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 48 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 49 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 50 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 51 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 52 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 53 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 54 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 55 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 56 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 57 José Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 58 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 59 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 60 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 61 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 62 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 63 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 64 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 65 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 66 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 67 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 68 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 69 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 70 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 71 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 72 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 73 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 74 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 75 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 76 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 77 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 78 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 79 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 80 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 81 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 82 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6.27 83 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 11.47 84 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 85 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 86 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover Points 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 20 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 17 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 15 4 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13 5 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 6 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 10 7 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 9 8 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 9 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7 10 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 6 11 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 5 12 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4 13 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3 14 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 2 15 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 1 16 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank Mountains Col De Mevouillon, km 78 1 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 5 pts 2 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 3 3 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 Col De La Pigiere, km 89.5 1 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 5 pts 2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 3 3 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1 Montee Du Thor, km 128.5 1 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 5 pts 2 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3 3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 1 Montee Du Thor, km 138.5 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 5 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 3 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 1 Sprints Cairanne, km 14 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6 pts 2 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 3 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 2 Sisteron, km 138 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 4 3 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 2 Teams 1 US Postal presented by Berry Floor 9.49.31 2 Cofidis 2.56 3 FDJeux.com 4.29 4 Brioches La Boulangere 5 Phonak Hearing Systems 5.10 6 Rabobank 6.05 7 Ag2R Prevoyance 8 Credit Agricole 6.07 9 Quick Step - Davitamon 9.08 10 Euskaltel - Euskadi 11 R.A.G.T. Semences - Mg Rover 12 Team Csc General classification after stage 5 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19.47.24 2 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.36 3 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.14 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 2.00 5 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 2.32 6 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.36 7 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.43 8 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 3.10 9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 3.33 10 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 3.58 11 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.05 12 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 4.17 13 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4.25 14 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 4.46 15 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 4.59 16 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 17 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 5.33 18 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 6.01 19 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 6.02 20 Jean-Cyril Robin (Fra) FDJeux.com 6.37 21 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 6.39 22 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 6.43 23 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7.07 24 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7.12 25 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 26 Laurent Dufaux (Swi) Quick.Step-Davitamon 7.24 27 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7.28 28 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 7.34 29 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7.56 30 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 8.10 31 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 8.16 32 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 8.18 33 Ludovic Martin (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 8.26 34 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 8.42 35 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 9.22 36 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 9.24 37 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.54 38 José Pecharroman (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10.01 39 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10.05 40 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 10.14 41 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 10.46 42 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 11.07 43 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 11.41 44 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 11.52 45 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 12.11 46 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 13.15 47 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13.21 48 Ivan Basso (Ita) Team CSC 14.36 49 Maryan Hary (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 15.24 50 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.57 51 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 16.30 52 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 16.41 53 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 17.10 54 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 17.37 55 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Credit Agricole 18.01 56 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 18.10 57 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 18.25 58 Christophe Mengin (Fra) FDJeux.com 19.58 59 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 20.06 60 Gilles Bouvard (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 20.10 61 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 20.32 62 Carlos Dacruz (Fra) FDJeux.com 21.28 63 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank 21.49 64 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 21.58 65 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 66 Michele Bartoli (Ita) Team CSC 22.45 67 Christophe Laurent (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 23.01 68 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 23.37 69 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 28.18 70 Pierre Bourquenoud (Swi) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 28.31 71 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 28.35 72 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 29.21 73 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 29.26 74 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 30.01 75 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 30.11 76 Kevin De Weert (Bel) Rabobank 30.15 77 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Credit Agricole 30.50 78 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 32.45 79 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 33.05 80 Matthew White (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 33.15 81 Nicolas Reynaud (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 34.20 82 Joseba Albizu (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35.32 83 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36.49 84 Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick.Step-Davitamon 43.11 85 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 44.41 86 Eddy Seigneur (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 46.53 87 Josu Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 52.07 Points classification 1 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 77 pts 2 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 57 3 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 55 4 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 40 5 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 36 6 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 34 7 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 33 8 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 32 9 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 32 10 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 30 11 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 29 12 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 28 13 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 28 14 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2R Prevoyance 27 15 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Credit Agricole 26 16 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 17 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 18 18 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 16 19 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 13 20 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 13 21 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 22 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 11 23 Michael Rogers (Aus) Quick.Step-Davitamon 11 24 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 11 25 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) FDJeux.com 11 26 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 27 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 9 28 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 8 29 Andrea Peron (Ita) Team CSC 8 30 Pedro Horrillo Munoz (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 8 31 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 32 Inaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8 33 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 8 34 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 7 35 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7 Pl Nom Prénom Dos Equ Points 36 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 7 pts 37 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6 38 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 6 39 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 5 40 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole 5 41 Richard Virenque (Fra) Quick.Step-Davitamon 5 42 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 4 43 Franck Renier (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 4 44 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 3 45 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) FDJeux.com 2 46 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 2 47 Guillaume Auger (Fra) R.A.G.T. Semences-MG Rover 2 48 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) FDJeux.com 1 49 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1 50 Sandy Casar (Fra) FDJeux.com 1 51 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 52 Marc Lotz (Ned) Rabobank Mountains classification 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45 pts 2 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 43 3 José Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 37 4 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 36 5 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 36 6 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick.Step-Davitamon 34 7 Iker Flores (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 32 8 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 30 9 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 29 10 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Credit Agricole 28 11 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 23 12 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 23 13 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 22 14 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 20 15 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 16 16 Benjamin Noval (Spa) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 15 17 Stéphane Goubert (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 14 18 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Rabobank 14 19 Floyd Landis (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 13 20 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 12 21 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 10 22 Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 8 23 George Hincapie (USA) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 8 24 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 8 25 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 26 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, le credit par Telephone 6 27 Santos Gonzalez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 28 Andy Flickinger (Fra) Ag2R Prevoyance 5 29 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 30 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 31 José Azevedo (Por) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 4 32 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 4 33 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 34 Jörg Jaksche (Ger) Team CSC 1 35 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 1 36 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1 37 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Credit Agricole 1 38 Baden Cooke (Aus) FDJeux.com 1 Teams classification 1 Phonak Hearing Systems 59.22.39 2 US Postal presented by Berry Floor 1.28 3 Euskaltel - Euskadi 7.07 4 Ag2R Prevoyance 12.30 5 FDJeux.com 13.35 6 Quick Step - Davitamon 14.26 7 Credit Agricole 15.01 8 Brioches La Boulangere 20.11 9 Team CSC 20.18 10 Rabobank 21.58 11 Cofidis 22.59 12 R.A.G.T. Semences - MG Rover 38.03
