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57th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré - PT
France, June 5-12, 2005
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Stage 7 - Sunday, June 12: Morzine-Avoriaz - Sallanches, 128 km
Inigo's race to Luze, and theirs to win
George jumps to stage win #2
By Anthony Tan in Sallanches
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At the start of the day, 28 year-old Iñigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) had everything to lose. His more favoured rivals Santiago Botero, Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong were stronger riders and possessed stronger teams. But with a difficult though by no means extreme parcours, they all needed to take the race to the Basque if they wanted to win.
However, it was only Botero and Leipheimer who really wanted it bad. With Discovery Channel teammates George Hincapie and Yaroslav Popovych up the road, coupled with Lance Armstrong's primary motivation for doing the Dauphiné, the lack of unity within this group worked to Landaluze's favour. And when he did get dropped, just as he did yesterday, he didn't panic; holding firm, holding tough, and doing enough to claim the biggest victory of his five-year professional career.
"We made a mistake to let Landaluze get away; I'm not afraid to say that," said Leipheimer, who was speaking about Friday's fifth stage that finished in Grenoble, won by Axel Merckx. At the start of that day, the day after Ventoux, Landaluze was 4'30 behind the 31 year-old American, who was the race leader at the time. However, by the day's end, Landaluze found himself part of a successful 13-man breakaway that took nine and a half minutes out of the peloton, and as a consequence, he became the new maillot jaune.
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Yes - with Landaluze finishing 10th overall at the 2004 Dauphiné Libéré, coupled with his second place in the mountains classification at this year's Tour de Romandie, Leipheimer et al. should have watched this man far more closely. Nonetheless, Levi seemed content with his third place overall, and learned a valuable lesson before cycling's main event, the Tour de France.
Together with Leipheimer, yesterday's stage winner and eventual second overall Botero threw everything he had at Landaluze. Today, the 32 year-old Colombian came within 11 seconds of his second ProTour stage race victory after his comeback win in Romandie, but as he said to Cyclingnews at the start of the day, he was facing an uphill battle.
"It won't be easy, especially with these kinds of mountains, but we'll try," said Botero in Morzine, not sounding overly confident. Certainly, the seven 2.5 kilometre ascents of the Côte de Domancy didn't play to his strengths, but like Leipheimer, Botero can take plenty out of this race and into the Tour, Phonak's big objective of the year.
"Each day, I've been riding a little better. I think I'm at 100 percent [fitness] - I'm in very good shape. In the Tour, I hope that I will be in the same shape that I'm in now, and in the front of the general classification," he said.
Asked about the lack of time trial kilometres in the '05 Tour, his specialist discipline, Botero answered: "Ah, it's not good for me, but what can you do? Nothing. But this is the reason why I'm training a little bit more in the mountains."
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Someone that's also been spending plenty of time in the mountains is today's winner George Hincapie. After a surprise prologue win one week ago, today the 31 year-old American pretty much rode a 100 kilometre, two-man team trial with team-mate Yaroslav Popovych, impressively holding off a motoring chase group three times the size to make it Dauphiné stage victory #2.
"I would say I'm right on track," said Hincapie to Cyclingnews when asked about his form going into the Tour. "I haven't raced for six weeks before this, so it's good to come here and ride hard, and try and get some good race fitness. No matter how hard you train, you can't train as hard as you race, so it's good to do this hard race.
"The course is super-hard here - maybe too hard!" laughed laid-back George. "It's probably harder than some of the Tour stages - so it's good training. I'm trying to get ready for the Tour, so I'm just happy with the way things are going."
So is Lance.
How it unfolded
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Once again, the final day of the 57th Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré began in perfect weather: at the early afternoon kick-off in Morzine, it was 18 degrees Celsius with 5-10 km/h breeze blowing from the southwest.
While timings were tight at the top of the leaderboard, riders aiming for another rung or two up the ladder needed to make things happen. It wasn't going to be like yesterday, where the parcours created certain selections; today, riders like Botero, Leipheimer, Armstrong and Vinokourov would need to do that themselves.
Once again, the start continued in a similarly aggressive vein to that of previous days, Tuesday's stage winner Samuel Dumoulin (Ag2r) first to try his luck before a group of 15 and then 13 broke clear at 14:25, to make a front group of 28, Dumoulin included.
It was a large group - too large and too dangerous to let go - but they managed to gain 30 seconds a kilometre before the summit of the Côte de Saint-Sigismond (km 35) before it was all back together save two riders, Discovery Channel's George Hincapie and Yaroslav Popovych managing to stay out in front.
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It was an interesting move, sparking a 20-man counter containing Armstrong, Vinokourov, Moreau, Gilbert, Botero, Sastre, Leipheimer, Tankink, Dumoulin and Goubert. However, the descent of the Saint-Sigismond was considered too dangerous a place to forge their advantage, and they too found their way back to the bunch.
After 50 kilometres and approaching the first of seven ascensions of the Côte de Domancy, Hincapie and Popovych had 1'15 on the peloton that had split again, the names of Gilbert, Dumoulin and Tombak present in the group behind, and later joined by Nicolas Vogondy, Frédéric Finot, Christophe Edaleine and Sylvain Calzati.
The second time over the Côte de Domancy, the Discovery duo were roughly two minutes in front of the peloton and 1'25 ahead of José Gomez-Marchante (Illes Balears), the Spaniard sitting 11th on GC at the start of the day, 4'09 behind Landaluze.
Back in the peloton, numerous counters were splitting the bunch to pieces, with Manuel Beltran (Discovery Channel), Andrey Kashechkin (Crédit Agricole) and Constantino Zaballa (Saunier Duval) bridging up to Gomez-Marchante after the third time of Domancy to form a chase group of four, 1'55 behind Hincapie and Popovych. A further 2'20 in arrears was Chavanel, Goubert and Zandio, with the peloton now at 2'40, having just completed their fifth of eight passages in the finish town of Sallanches.
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Into the third-to-last climb of Domancy, George and Popo were storming, 2'05 ahead of Beltran, Kashechkin, Gomez-Marchante and Zaballa, who were joined by Goubert and Zandio on the climb, Chavanel unable to go with them.
But the Frenchman wasn't the only one having trouble. When the remains of the peloton came to this point, the maillot jaune of Landaluze, among numerous others, found themselves in difficulty, and cresting Domancy, a select group of 16 formed - Beltran, Mancebo, Botero, Leipheimer, Menchov, Moncoutié, Bruseghin, Codol, Van Huffel, Canada, Mazzoleni, Landaluze, Goubert, Vinokourov, Armstrong and Zandio all in there.
Landaluze got back on but not for long, as an attack by Mancebo on the penultimate ascent of Domancy saw him and a few others gone for good. By the top, Hincapie and Popovych were 1'10 ahead of the group containing Armstrong and Botero and 1'35 on the maillot jaune. With Landaluze only 49 seconds ahead of Botero at the start of the day, it was touch and go, and nail-biting stuff.
The final time over the climb, and with five kilometres to go, all bets were on the fast-finishing Hincapie, with he and his fellow Discovery companion still 50 seconds out in front. Behind them, Botero went ballistic, gaining 38 seconds on le group maillot jaune by the top of the climb before bombing the descent - but as he did yesterday, the über-cool Landaluze didn't panic, and with the aid of Eddy Mazzoleni (Lampre-Caffita) and Marzio Bruseghin (Fassa Bortolo), this is where their deficit stayed by the end of the day.
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In a textbook two-man sprint finish, the powerful Hincapie was rewarded with his second stage win of the race, easily distancing himself from his Ukrainian team-mate. And just to rub it in, Lance Armstrong made it a Disco 1-2-3, winning a six-man sprint to the line 22 seconds later, the Texan looking pretty happy with the result after Vinokourov did the same to him the day before.
Photography
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- CN's Anthony Tan spots someone to talk to
- Armstrong wants to know what he's signing
- Lance and the throng
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) looks nervous
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) rides to the start
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) looking forward to sign on
- He ain't the defending champ but he still gets number one
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) signs on
- Lance and Popo on the podium
- Wait up
- Landaluze wondering what the day will bring
- Landaluze prepares to sign on
- Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) looking happier
- Andreas Kloden (T-Mobile) will be a dad soon
- Andreas Kloden (T-Mobile)
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) worried
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) would not finish the day
- Vinokourov at the start
- Vino obliges the fans
- Santi Botero (Phonak) is glowing
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) looks annoyed
- Climbing in the French Alps
- Chavanel puts the pressure on
- Check out the backdrop! Quality work by the organisers
- Merckx leads the peloton
- The only way is up
- Chasing hard
- Botero suffers
- Dekker suffers
- Here we go again
- The peloton climbs with the Alps in the background
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) lookin' good
- Erik Dekker on the Domancy climb
- O'Grady climbing alone
- Heras in a spot of bother
- Very watchful in the chase group
- Vino and Kashekhin
- Leipheimer stuck in the middle
- Mancebo puts the pressure on
- Botero follows
- Leipheimer follows
- Vino and Leipheimer comfy
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) leads the Armstrong group
- Armstrong and Mazzoleni climbing
- Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) on his lonesome
- Botero keeping an eye out
- Codol and Armstrong in the bunch
- This is hard work says Chavanel
- Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) looks up ahead
- Ivan Guttierez (Illes Balears) in the mountains jersey
- Chavanel working alone
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) concentrates
- Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) riding hard
- Davide Rebellin (Gerolsteiner) in the hurt box
- The peloton climbs the Cote du Domancy
- Popovych and Hincapie climbing
- Popo leads Hincapie
- Popovych leads Hincapie
- Popovych and Hincapie keep driving
- Popo and George together
- Popovych always in front
- Popo and George
- Whaddya we do boss? Just win!
- Popovych and Hincapie in unison
- Santi Botero (Phonak) takes a flyer
- Botero on the attack
- Armstrong and Leipheimer chase Botero
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) leads Armstrong and Vino, who is just about to go after Botero
- Lance keeps an eye on Vino
- Hey, where do you think you're going?
- Armstrong counters Vino's counter
- Vinokourov goes after Botero
- Landaluze had to go deep to defend his jersey
- Popovych: "Hey George… you forgot something"
- George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) celebrates his win
- Hincapie salutes as he wins
- Armstrong and Vino fight it out for third
- Vino and Lance fight it out for third
- Armstrong beats Vino with the throw
- Nice throw
- Vinokourov crosses the line for fourth
- Armstrong post-stage
- Santi Botero (Phonak) doing the sums in his head
- How much time do I have?
- Landaluze is congratulated by his soigneurs
- Alright! Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel) celebrates his overall win
- You did it!
- A very happy Inigo Landaluze after the stage
- Yes! Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel) knows he's got it
- This'll be handy - I need a new weathervane
- George smiles
- George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) on the podium
Images by AFP
- Discovery team-mates Yaroslav Popovych and George Hincapie skipped away after roughly 35 kilometres and never came back.
- Alexandre Vinkourov (T-Mobile) leads the a rapidly thinning peloton.
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) got an armchair ride to the finish today, courtesy of his two team-mates out in front.
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) leads the Disco train, with Santiago Botero (Phonak) in tow.
- Munch! Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) has been riding strongly all week, with today no exception.
- Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears, L) and co. attempt to distance themselves from the maillot jaune of Inigo Landaluze.
- Yaroslav Popovych and George Hincapie drive onwards and upwards.
- Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) put in another gutsy performance to hold onto the race lead by 11 seconds at the end of the day.
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) leads Santiago Botero (Phonak).
- Well, what do you expect? Lance was here!
- George Hincapie (Discovery Channel) takes the final stage in Sallanches.
- Honey, I'm home!
- Lance Armstrong (Discovery Channel) outsprints Alexandre Vinokourov (T-Mobile, obscured) and Santiago Botero (Phonak) to make it a Disco 1-2-3 stage victory.
- Really? Holy cow! Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) can hardly believe it.
- Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) gets some help donning the final maillot jaune of the 2005 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré.
- Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi) was so exhausted by the day's end, they reduced the size of his winner's trophy.
- The final podium - (L to R) Santiago Botero (Phonak, 2nd), Inigo Landaluze (Euskaltel-Euskadi, 1st), Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner, 3rd).
Images by Russell Standring/http://grenoblecycling.free.fr
- Christophe Edaleine (Cofidis) climbs the Cote du Domancy
- Nicolas Fritsch (Saunier Duval) on the final ascent of the Cote du Domancy
- Stephane Goubert (Ag2r) with concentration written all over his face
- Roberto Heras (Liberty Seguros) finds it tough on the Cote du Domancy
- Nicolas Jalabert (Phonak) putting in the big ones on the Cote du Domancy
- Andrey Kashechkin (Credit Agricole) digs deep on the Cote du Domancy
- For George Hincapie and Yaroslav Popovych it was a day of Discovery on the Cote du Domancy
- Francisco Mancebo (Illes Balears) attacks his rivals on the Cote du Domancy on the penultimate lap of the circuit
Results
1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3.07.10 (41.033 km/h) 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.22 4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 5 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 7 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 0.24 8 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 9 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 0.45 10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 0.59 11 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 1.00 12 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 13 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 14 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.14 15 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.28 16 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1.31 17 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 1.57 18 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 19 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 2.38 20 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 21 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 22 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 23 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 24 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 3.53 25 Xabie Zandio Echaide (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4.26 26 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 5.34 27 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 28 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 29 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 30 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 31 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 5.36 32 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 33 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 34 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 35 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 5.38 36 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 37 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 38 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 39 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 40 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 41 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 42 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 43 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 44 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 45 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 46 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 47 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 48 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 7.12 49 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 7.14 50 Jose Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8.02 51 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 14.17 52 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 53 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 54 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 55 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 56 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 57 Igor Gonzalez De Gal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 58 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 59 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 60 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 61 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 62 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 63 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 64 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 65 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 66 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 67 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 68 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-Caffita 69 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 70 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 71 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 72 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 15.33 73 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 16.04 74 Daniele Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 75 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 76 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 77 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 78 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone DNF Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance DNF Ludovic Turpin (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance DNF Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole DNF Damien Nazon (Fra) Credit Agricole DNF Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone DNF Stuart O'grady (Aus) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone DNF Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC DNF Alessandr Cortinovis (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Sergio Ghisalberti (Ita) Domina Vacanze DNF Rafael Nuritdinov (Uzb) Domina Vacanze DNF Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team DNF Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto DNF Koldo Fernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Aitor Silloniz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Joseba Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi DNF Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Fassa Bortolo DNF Mickael Delage (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF Frederic Finot (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF Benoit Vaugrenard (Fra) Française Des Jeux DNF Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Uwe Peschel (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Torsten Schmidt (Ger) Gerolsteiner DNF Marco Serpellini (Ita) Gerolsteiner DNF Jose Garcia Acosta (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne DNF Jose Cayetano Julia (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne DNF Alessand Spezialetti (Ita) Lampre-Caffita DNF Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Mauro Gerosa (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Oscar Mason (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Devis Miorin (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Gianluca Sironi (Ita) Liquigas-Bianchi DNF Roberto Heras (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Allan Davis (Aus) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Jorg Jaksche (Ger) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Marcos Serrano (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team DNF Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak Hearing Systems DNF Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Quick Step DNF Jose Pecharroman (Spa) Quick Step DNF Jurgen Van Goolen (Bel) Quick Step DNF Rik Verbrugghe (Bel) Quick Step DNF Gerben Lowik (Ned) Rabobank DNF Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank DNF Marc Wauters (Bel) Rabobank DNF Angel Edo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir DNF Andreas Kloden (Ger) T-Mobile Team DNF Bernhard Kohl (Aut) T-Mobile Team DNF Serguei Yakovlev (Kaz) T-Mobile Team DNS Nick Nuyens (Bel) Quick Step Points 1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 20 pts 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 17 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 15 4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 13 5 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 6 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 10 7 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 9 8 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8 9 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6 11 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 5 12 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 4 13 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3 14 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 15 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1 Mountains Cote De St Sigismond - km 35 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 3 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1 Cote De Domancy - km 64,500 1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 4 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 2 5 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Cote De Domancy - km 74,500 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 4 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 2 5 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 Cote De Domancy - km 84,500 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3 4 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 2 5 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Cote De Domancy - km 94,500 1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 3 4 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 5 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 1 Cote De Domancy - km 104,500 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 3 4 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 2 5 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 Cote De Domancy - km 114,500 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 3 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 2 5 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Cote De Domancy - km 124,500 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 5 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 3 4 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 5 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 Sprints Sallanches - km 88 1 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 pts 2 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 3 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 2 Sallanches - km 108 1 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 6 pts 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 4 3 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 2 Teams 1 Discovery Channel 9.21.52 2 Saunier Duval - Prodir 7.28 3 Davitamon-Lotto 8.18 4 Fassa Bortolo 8.50 5 Ag2R Prevoyance 9.20 6 Rabobank 9.51 7 Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 10.39 8 Cofidis 11.14 9 T-Mobile Team 10 Phonak Hearing Systems 12.50 11 Credit Agricole 12.47 12 Team CSC 16.32 13 Bouygues Telecom 29.26 14 Lampre - Caffita 30.28 15 Francaise Des Jeux 42.29 16 Domina Vacanze 44.16 Final General classification 1 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 28.24.46 2 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.11 3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 0.38 4 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 0.59 5 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 1.02 6 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.56 7 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 3.54 8 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 3.58 9 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 5.04 10 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 6.20 11 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 7.51 12 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7.52 13 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8.28 14 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 13.08 15 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 13.14 16 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 13.36 17 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 13.43 18 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 14.17 19 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 14.37 20 David Canada (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 15.17 21 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 15.31 22 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 16.14 23 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 17.23 24 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 17.38 25 Jose Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 20.40 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 21.45 27 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC 22.01 28 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Credit Agricole 25.17 29 Jose Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 27.05 30 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick Step 27.19 31 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 28.19 32 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 28.31 33 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 28.53 34 Massimo Codol (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 30.05 35 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 30.13 36 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 31.49 37 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 32.28 38 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Team CSC 33.52 39 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 34.50 40 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 36.05 41 Oscar Sevilla (Spa) T-Mobile Team 36.12 42 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 37.22 43 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 37.58 44 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 39.33 45 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 40.26 46 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 40.45 47 Igor Gonzalez De Gal (Spa) Liberty Seguros-Würth Team 41.40 48 Xabie Zandio Echaide (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 43.17 49 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 43.38 50 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 45.34 51 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 47.04 52 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 48.04 53 Maxim Iglinskiy (Kaz) Domina Vacanze 49.54 54 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 50.11 55 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 50.47 56 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 51.06 57 Juan Fuentes (Spa) Lampre-Caffita 51.09 58 Christophe Edaleine (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 52.27 59 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 52.36 60 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 53.38 61 Thomas Lovkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux 53.47 62 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 54.01 63 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 55.19 64 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank 56.16 65 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 56.44 66 Inigo Chaurreau (Spa) Ag2r Prevoyance 59.04 67 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 1.02.21 68 Daniele Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 1.03.27 69 Sebastien Joly (Fra) Credit Agricole 1.04.49 70 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 1.04.54 71 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.06.26 72 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 1.10.01 73 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française Des Jeux 1.10.33 74 Mauro Facci (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 1.11.52 75 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 1.14.42 76 Oleksandr Kvachuk (Ukr) Lampre-Caffita 1.18.44 77 Janek Tombak (Est) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 1.21.39 78 Matej Jurco (Svk) Domina Vacanze 1.23.52 Points classification 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 63 pts 2 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 62 3 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 59 4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 59 5 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 58 6 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 37 7 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 36 8 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 35 9 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 33 10 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 31 11 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 27 12 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 27 13 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 26 14 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 26 15 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 25 16 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 21 17 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 20 18 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 20 19 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 19 20 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 18 21 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 15 22 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC 13 23 Jose Gutierrez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 24 Constantino Zaballa (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 10 25 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 10 26 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 10 27 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 9 28 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 8 29 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 8 30 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Saunier Duval-Prodir 8 31 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 8 32 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 7 33 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 7 34 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 5 35 Serge Baguet (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 36 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Davitamon-Lotto 4 37 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 38 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Credit Agricole 4 39 Daniele Becke (Ger) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 4 40 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3 41 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 3 42 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux 3 43 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2 44 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2 45 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2 46 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 2 47 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team -4 48 Nicki Sorensen (Den) Team CSC -5 49 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto -5 50 Erik Dekker (Ned) Rabobank -5 51 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance -5 Mountains classification 1 Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 96 pts 2 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 67 3 Massimo Giunti (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 62 4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) T-Mobile Team 61 5 Jose Gomez Marchante (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 61 6 Santiago Botero (Col) Phonak Hearing Systems 58 7 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 53 8 Remy Di Gregorio (Fra) Française Des Jeux 52 9 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 50 10 Axel Merckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 44 11 Lance Armstrong (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 44 12 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 43 13 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 40 14 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 39 15 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 35 16 Francis Mourey (Fra) Française Des Jeux 32 17 Andrey Kashechkin (Kaz) Credit Agricole 31 18 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 30 19 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 30 20 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 30 21 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) Lampre-Caffita 23 22 David Arroyo (Spa) Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne 22 23 Andriy Grivko (Ukr) Domina Vacanze 15 24 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 13 25 Nicolas Fritsch (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir 12 26 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 12 27 Frederic Bessy (Fra) Cofidis, Le Credit Par Telephone 11 28 Rafael Casero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir 11 29 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 10 30 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 8 31 Pierre Drancourt (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 8 32 Francisco Lara Ruiz (Spa) T-Mobile Team 5 33 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 4 34 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 4 35 Stephane Goubert (Fra) Ag2r Prevoyance 3 36 Manuel Beltran (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 3 37 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 2 38 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner 2 39 Jose Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 1 Teams classification 1 Discovery Channel 85.30.51 2 Phonak Hearing Systems 6.50 3 Saunier Duval - Prodir 11.29 4 Credit Agricole 15.37 5 Davitamon-Lotto 20.24 6 T-Mobile Team 24.03 7 Fassa Bortolo 24.11 8 Illes Balears-Casse d'Epargne 24.12 9 Ag2R Prevoyance 31.55 10 Rabobank 34.10 11 Cofidis 45.45 12 Team CSC 1.04.29 13 Bouygues Telecom 1.20.10 14 Francaise Des Jeux 1.51.26 15 Lampre - Caffita 2.13.20 16 Domina Vacanze 2.13.31
