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Tour de Georgia - 2.HC
USA, April 18-23, 2006
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Stage 5 - April 22: Blairsville, GA - Brasstown Bald Mountain, GA, 152.1km
Danielson tops Brasstown Bald -- Landis tops Georgia
Landis matches Danielson punch for punch to retain overall lead
by Mark Zalewski, North American Editor with Kirsten Robbins above Georgia
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The similarities between this year's Tour de Georgia and last year's ended today on the road up Brasstown Bald as Floyd Landis (Phonak) matched Tom Danielson (Discovery Channel) all the way to the top, securing his four second overall lead. Danielson tried in vain to drop Landis in the final kilometers but waited too long, unlike last year when he attacked from the bottom.
"It was a really tactical race," Danielson told Cyclingnews after the race. "We definitely underestimated Floyd. He was very strong today and was gritting his teeth -- he really gave it everything he had." Danielson did hold on for the stage win, but was disappointed that he could not put time into Landis like last year. "I was just looking for the finish, trying to stay with him," said Landis. "It was just a matter of sticking to him."
"I think I made a mistake by not making my move at the bottom," admitted Danielson. "I should have gone then and gave it everything I had all the way to the top. What happened was that we were together and there was a head wind. I slowed down to make Floyd take his [Martinez's] wheel and wait for Popovych. But, Floyd was able to recover and then later when Popovich passed us Floyd was not too concerned with chasing him so we basically just stopped and had a picnic on the climb. We waited and waited and waited and then I tried to kick it in the last few hundred meters but he was right there behind me."
Phonak's director sportif René Savary is certainly happy to see a different result from last year -- much of which he owes to Floyd's and the team's progress since then. "We were really proud we could defend our jersey but it was a real tough stage. At the end congratulations to Discovery -- it was impressive but we had an unbeatable Floyd. What more can you say? And our team made it a perfect job. We saw we had a much better team than last year -- they could do the job until the end."
"My team has done such an exceptional job here over the last five days as well as last year," said Landis. "They did a good job at the front today and they deserve all the credit. The last five kilometers of the climb, Popo and Danielson were very strong. We went over the climb at a really high pace. I knew Tom was very good at hard efforts like that and it is not exactly my strong point. We tried to use a few guys in the beginning so that we had some fresh guys in the end. I kind of expected that I would be out numbered in the last climb."
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Even more impressive today was the display by Discovery Channel's Jason McCartney who wore the most aggressive rider jersey today after his relentless attacking and solo effort yesterday. McCartney sat two points behind Lucas Euser (TIAA-CREF) in the KOM category. The two battled hard in the day's only breakaway, but McCartney was just too strong for Euser. He took maximum points over the first two difficult KOMs before being caught on the second descent. McCartney now wears both the most aggressive rider jersey, the only rider to win it in back-to-back stages at this race, and the KOM jersey with a seven point lead over Euser. With only six points available in tomorrow's final stage, McCartney can relax on the ride to Alpharetta.
After the stage, the press were let in on a tidbit of information that put McCartney's efforts in a whole new perspective. "People don't know this but he has been sick this week," explained Danielson. "On stage two he had to stop at the side of the road and was totally out of the race. The ambulance and everyone had gone by and he chased himself back into the race on the finishing circuits. The guy is incredible."
Fred Rodriguez (Davitamon-Lotto) maintained his lead in the points competition with the breakaway taking the two sprint point opportunities of the day. From there it was hang on for dear life. "I am pretty crafty when I am trying to climb up these mountains," Rodriguez said. "I finished as best as I could knowing that these guys were going to completely demolish me up it. So I conserved energy and switched back and forth up the climb as best as I could to save my legs for tomorrow."
Rodriguez only really has three people to watch tomorrow, as only twenty points are available tomorrow on one sprint line and the stage finish. Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery Channel) is the most threatening with only five points between them, but not quite the sprinter Fast Freddie can be. However, with the best young rider in Janez Brajkovic, and king of the mountains and most aggressive rider jersey's with McCartney, Johann Bruyneel might try to make up for the fact that the team is without the leader's jersey by sweeping the rest.
How it unfolded
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Spring showers drenched the riders at the start in Blairsville, but all was dry by the time the race had looped around back to the start town for the first intermediate sprint of the day. By that point a six-rider break had formed that included Sébastien Rosseler (Quick Step,) Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (CSC,) Aaron Olson (Suanier Duval-Prodir,) Will Frishkorn (TIAA-CREF,) as well as the two break riders from yesterday, KOM leader Lucas Euser (TIAA-CREF) and Jason McCartney (Discovery Channel.)
As the break approached the first climb McCartney and Euser rolled off the front, smelling the KOM points up the road. McCartney drove the pace and eventually Euser could not match the pace. McCartney built a strong lead over the top of the Hogpen Gap, putting 2:41 on the four riders behind him. Euser held on for second as well as a slimmer lead on the KOM jersey.
McCartney did not wait for the break to catch back on and descended at nearly 60 m.p.h. Euser also held an advantage on the now chase group of four for a time, but eventually was reeled in. At this point the Phonak led field had brought the gap to the chasers down significantly but McCartney was still going. Through the Bavarian-style town of Helen, Georgia, McCartney took the sprint followed by the chasers. But the field was bearing down and caught the group soon after.
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On the second KOM up Unicoi Gap McCartney was riding along side his team car as his support crew shouted out the time splits. Nearing the half-way point of the climb the gap was under a minute and falling quickly, with McCartney digging deep into his reserves. Pieter Mertens (Davitamon-Lotto) tried to bridge the gap once McCartney was in sight near the top, but the tenacious climber did not give up. Over the top McCartney sat-up taking the points and the lead in the KOM competition. Once Mertens joined him the two descended together and kept a small gap on the field for a short time.
Once caught, the already small field was no longer a field. The leading group that approached Brasstown Bald was only twelve riders, including Landis, Danielson and a few of their teammates among others, including Toyota-United's Justin England -- the only remaining American domestic professional. "Danielson and the others started to make a strong acceleration when we turned onto the road about 5km to go and I just had to ride my own race for there on out because I could not keep up with their accelerations," England said. "I just kept riding steady all the way up and picked off a few guys along the way."
On the base it was Danielson sheltered by Popovych and Martinez as well as Landis sheltered by Cataluna and Tschoop. Also in this group was former winner here Cesar Grajales (Navigators Insurance.) Not long after the climb's steep grade kicked in Cataluna and Grajales lost contact. Down one teammate Landis sat on the Discovery trio as they pushed the pace even more.
Danielson put in a few attacks but Landis was not losing contact as other riders fell off the pace. Landis even tried an attack that was immediately covered by Popovych. A few times the pace even slowed to a crawl as Danielson tried to make Floyd lead, allowing Grajales to come close to catching back on. Popovych was dropped by a few more re-accelerations, but then regained contact with a slower pace up the climb.
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Inside the final kilometer Popovych attacked as Grajales rejoined Danielson and Landis. "I did let Popo go a couple of times because that would have been fine with me if he won," Landis said. "But I was strong enough to be there at the end." Strong he was as he matched Danielson's accelerations riding side-by-side the entire last kilometer. Around the steep switch-back where Danielson dropped Landis last year the two could see Popovych who was running out of gas. The two passed him and quickly made it to the final sharp 160 degree turn to the finish.
Landis, on the left, was in the inside position between Danielson and the finish line. "He was putting himself in place the whole way," Danielson said of Landis' positioning. "He was doing that a lot." At that point Landis looked over at Danielson to see if another attack was coming, and turned his focus on just getting across the line with Danielson's wheel. "At that point it was just a matter of sticking to him," a tired Landis said. Danielson did accelerate and took the stage win with a content Landis on his wheel.
One more to go
Stage six of Tour de Georgia is the final stage of the tour and very much a sprinters stage. (See stage map & profile). The stage is 190km long with only one KOM early in the stage and finishing with 6 laps of a fast 6km finishing circuit.
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Last year, the stage finished in the same way and we saw Gord Fraser (Health Net) come through with the goods to take the sprint with his teammate Greg Henderson finishing right behind him taking second place and the overall sprint jersey.
Floyd Landis has the yellow jersey safely on his back and only has to stay on his bike to keep the lead so his team will work for one more day to keep him safe and the race will be left to breakaway riders or more likely the sprinters.
Make sure you follow all the action, live on Cyclingnews, from 12:30 local time (EDT), 09:30 PDT (USA West) 14:30 CEST (Europe), 02:30 AEST (Australia East).
Photography
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- Floyd Landis (Phonak) leads Tom Danielson (Discovery) just before Danielson attacks for the win.
- The bunch rolls out in the rain this morning.
- More rain later in the race.
- Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery) comes through leading on Brasstown Bald.
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) looks back as Tom Danielson (Discovery) attacks.
- Janez Brajkovic (Discovery) comes through holding on to the best young rider jersey.
- Todd Wells (Targetraining) had a great ride today.
- Andrew Bajadali (Jelly Belly) focuses on the top.
- A Phonak rider gets a push from an excited fan.
- Another group tackles the infamous switchback near the top.
- Chris Baldwin (Toyota United) looks for the top.
- Dave Zabriskie (CSC) on the way up.
- Justin England (Toyota United) had a great ride today to come in 9th.
- Tom Danielson (Discovery) takes the top spot of the podium again on top of Brass Town Bald.
Images by Trish Albert/www.southeasterncycling.com
- A little fan rings his bell as the riders come by.
- Tom Danielson (Discovery) pips Floyd Landis (Phonak) at the line atop Brasstown Bald.
- Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery) worked tirelessly for leader Tom Danielson.
- A Navigators rider grimaces in pain.
- Most aggressive rider Jason McCartney (Discovery) won the jersey for a second time today with a long breakaway.
- Nathan O'Neill (Health Net p/b Maxxis) placed just outside the Top 10.
- Trent Wilson (Jittery Joes) shows the strain of the day.
- Marco Pinotti (Prodir) got a Top 10.
- The Top 3 for the Brasstown Bald stage: Floyd Landis (Phonak), Tom Danielson (Discovery), and Yaroslav Popovych (Discovery).
Results
1 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 4.05.56 2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 0.18 4 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 0.23 5 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 6 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 0.28 7 José Enrique Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 0.49 8 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel 1.35 9 Justin England (USA) Toyota-United Pro 1.49 10 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval 1.58 11 Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Prodir-Saunier Duval 2.02 12 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.07 13 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 14 Anthony Colby (USA) Targetraining 15 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Toyota-United Pro 2.20 16 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 2.50 17 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 18 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 3.02 19 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 20 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 3.22 21 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.27 22 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 23 Todd Wells (USA) Targetraining 3.37 24 Caleb Manion (Aus) Jelly Belly 25 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 4.09 26 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Prodir-Saunier Duval 4.17 27 Andrew Bajadali (USA) Jelly Belly 4.23 28 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 4.37 29 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 5.15 30 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 5.38 31 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 32 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 33 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance 6.02 34 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 6.21 35 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 6.40 36 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 6.47 37 Peter Mazur (Pol) Prodir-Saunier Duval 6.52 38 Jeffry Louder (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 39 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 7.01 40 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 7.22 41 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 42 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 43 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 44 Antonio Cruz (USA) Toyota-United Pro 7.39 45 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 7.54 46 Jesse Anthony (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 8.24 47 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 8.32 48 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance 9.10 49 Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 9.39 50 Matthew Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 9.57 51 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 10.35 52 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 10.46 53 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 11.31 54 Mark McCormack (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 11.47 55 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 11.52 56 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC 12.05 57 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 12.33 58 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 13.44 59 Philip Wong (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 14.45 60 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 61 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 62 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 14.58 63 Dominique Perras (Can) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 64 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 15.01 65 Wesley Hartman (USA) Targetraining 15.05 66 Davide Frattini (Ita) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 67 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 15.14 68 Brian Jensen (Den) Jelly Belly 15.21 69 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net p/b Maxxis 15.28 70 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Toyota-United Pro 15.42 71 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 16.33 72 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 17.04 73 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 17.19 74 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 75 Neil Shirley (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 17.30 76 Benjamin Brooks (Aus) Navigators Insurance 17.40 77 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 78 Nic Ingels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 79 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 80 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 18.07 81 Scott Zwizanski (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 18.36 82 Jackson Stewart (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 83 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 84 Michael Sayers (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 18.53 85 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 19.05 86 Brice Jones (USA) Jelly Belly 87 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.12 88 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 19.43 89 Frank Pipp (USA) Targetraining 20.20 90 Luis Oliveira Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 20.26 91 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 21.23 92 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro 93 Kirk Albers (USA) Jelly Belly 22.26 94 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Toyota-United Pro 22.38 95 Alex Candelario (USA) Jelly Belly 23.10 96 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 24.12 97 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 25.05 98 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota-United Pro 99 Austin King (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 26.14 100 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Insurance 26.49 101 Mariano Friedick (USA) Toyota-United Pro 27.40 102 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 28.13 103 Ryan Blickem (USA) Targetraining 29.00 104 Craig Wilcox (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 30.22 105 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Targetraining 31.18 106 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Targetraining DNF Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Prodir-Saunier Duval DNF Michael Dietrich (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada DNS Henk Vogels (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto Mountains Climb 1 1 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 10 pts 2 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 9 3 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 7 4 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 6 5 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 5 6 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 4 7 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 Climb 2 1 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 8 pts 2 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7 3 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 6 4 José Enrique Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 5 5 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 Sprints Sprint 1 1 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 5 pts 2 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 3 3 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 1 Sprint 2 1 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 5 pts 2 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 3 3 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 1 Teams 1 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 12.18.29 2 Phonak Hearing Systems 2.15 3 Prodir-Saunier Duval 7.36 4 Quick Step-Innergetic 8.27 5 Team CSC 9.02 6 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 10.59 7 Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team 11.07 8 Jelly Belly Cycling Team 17.16 9 Health Net Presented by Maxxis 17.33 10 Targetraining Cycling Team 20.08 11 Davitamon-Lotto 20.43 12 Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 22.23 13 The Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity Pro 23.04 14 Team TIAA-CREF 28.45 15 KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada Pro 29.02 General classification after stage 5 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 19.23.10 2 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 0.04 3 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 1.55 4 José Enrique Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 2.11 5 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 2.15 6 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 2.31 7 Nathan O'Neill (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 3.45 8 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval 3.54 9 Christopher Baldwin (USA) Toyota-United Pro 4.01 10 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 4.20 11 Justin England (USA) Toyota-United Pro 4.35 12 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 4.43 13 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel 5.05 14 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 5.25 15 Viatcheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 6.07 16 Jurgen Van De Walle (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 6.59 17 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 7.08 18 Inigo Cuesta Lopez De Castro (Spa) Team CSC 8.11 19 Todd Wells (USA) Targetraining 8.24 20 Trent Wilson (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 8.33 21 Anthony Colby (USA) Targetraining 22 Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Prodir-Saunier Duval 8.44 23 Valery Kobzarenko (Ukr) Navigators Insurance 8.53 24 Andrew Bajadali (USA) Jelly Belly 8.58 25 Caleb Manion (Aus) Jelly Belly 9.08 26 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 9.19 27 Todd Herriott (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 9.29 28 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 9.43 29 Peter Mazur (Pol) Prodir-Saunier Duval 10.07 30 Jeffry Louder (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 10.42 31 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 10.52 32 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 11.18 33 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 11.19 34 Burke Swindlehurst (USA) Navigators Insurance 11.26 35 Benjamin Noval (Spa) Discovery Channel 11.45 36 Danny Pate (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 11.55 37 Viktor Rapinski (Blr) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 13.11 38 Geert Verheyen (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 13.37 39 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 13.48 40 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 14.03 41 Phil Zajicek (USA) Navigators Insurance 14.12 42 Jesse Anthony (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 14.16 43 Matthew Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 15.38 44 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Prodir-Saunier Duval 15.57 45 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 16.13 46 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 16.28 47 Nick Gates (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 16.44 48 Antonio Cruz (USA) Toyota-United Pro 18.08 49 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 19.44 50 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 20.15 51 Jan Kuyckx (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 20.36 52 Davide Frattini (Ita) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 21.09 53 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 21.20 54 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 21.51 55 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 22.27 56 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 22.30 57 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 22.37 58 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 24.25 59 Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 24.32 60 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 25.31 61 Jakob Piil (Den) Team CSC 25.35 62 Benjamin Brooks (Aus) Navigators Insurance 25.58 63 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 28.11 64 Brian Jensen (Den) Jelly Belly 30.42 65 Mark McCormack (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 30.44 66 Tim Johnson (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 31.16 67 Ivan Dominguez (Cub) Toyota-United Pro 31.41 68 Heath Blackgrove (NZl) Toyota-United Pro 31.55 69 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 32.09 70 Philip Wong (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 32.22 71 Dominique Perras (Can) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 32.50 72 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 32.53 73 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 34.04 74 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 36.50 75 Davide Bramati (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 37.31 76 Scott Zwizanski (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 37.34 77 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 37.52 78 Frank Pipp (USA) Targetraining 38.42 79 Gordon Fraser (Can) Health Net p/b Maxxis 38.52 80 Brice Jones (USA) Jelly Belly 39.57 81 Neil Shirley (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 40.33 82 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro 40.41 83 Wesley Hartman (USA) Targetraining 40.54 84 Sean Sullivan (Aus) Toyota-United Pro 41.02 85 Michael Sayers (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 41.08 86 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 42.01 87 Kirk Albers (USA) Jelly Belly 42.26 88 Evan Elken (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 42.51 89 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 44.30 90 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 44.52 91 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 47.25 92 Mariano Friedick (USA) Toyota-United Pro 47.27 93 Luis Oliveira Fernandez (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 47.43 94 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 95 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Targetraining 50.17 96 Jackson Stewart (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 50.44 97 Nic Ingels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 54.26 98 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 1.00.59 99 Alex Candelario (USA) Jelly Belly 1.03.44 100 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 1.05.21 101 Oleg Grishkine (Rus) Navigators Insurance 1.07.56 102 Gustavo Artacho (Arg) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 1.08.58 103 Austin King (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 1.09.19 104 Ryan Blickem (USA) Targetraining 1.11.50 105 Craig Wilcox (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 1.15.41 106 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Targetraining 1.20.24 Points classification 1 Fred Rodriguez (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 40 pts 2 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 35 3 Caleb Manion (Aus) Jelly Belly 23 4 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro 21 5 Alejandro Acton (Arg) Targetraining 18 6 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Hearing Systems 16 7 Thomas Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel 15 8 Karl Menzies (Aus) Health Net p/b Maxxis 14 9 Cesar Augusto Grajales (Col) Navigators Insurance 13 10 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick Step-Innergetic 12 11 José Enrique Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 10 12 Ben Jacques-Maynes (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 10 13 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 8 14 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 6 15 Egoi Martinez De Esteban (Spa) Discovery Channel 6 16 Peter Mazur (Pol) Prodir-Saunier Duval 6 17 Vassili Davidenko (Rus) Navigators Insurance 6 18 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 5 19 Jackson Stewart (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 5 20 Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Quick Step-Innergetic 5 21 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 3 22 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 3 23 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 3 24 Matthew Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 3 25 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 3 26 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 27 Jeffry Louder (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 2 28 Justin England (USA) Toyota-United Pro 2 29 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 1 30 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 1 31 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 1 32 Nic Ingels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 33 Brian Vandborg (Den) Team CSC 1 34 Neil Shirley (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 1 35 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC 1 36 Marco Pinotti (Ita) Prodir-Saunier Duval 1 37 Anthony Colby (USA) Targetraining 1 Mountains classification 1 Jason McCartney (USA) Discovery Channel 35 pts 2 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 28 3 Ignacio Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 11 4 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 9 5 William Frischkorn (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 8 6 José Enrique Gutierrez Cataluna (Spa) Phonak Hearing Systems 8 7 Pieter Mertens (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7 8 Doug Ollerenshaw (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 7 9 Aaron Olson (USA) Prodir-Saunier Duval 6 10 Tyler Wren (USA) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 6 11 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 5 12 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 13 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick Step-Innergetic 4 14 Sergey Lagutin (Uzb) Navigators Insurance 4 15 Kirk O'Bee (USA) Health Net p/b Maxxis 4 16 Nic Ingels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3 17 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 3 18 Davide Frattini (Ita) Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 3 19 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 2 20 Wesley Hartman (USA) Targetraining 2 21 Juan José Haedo (Arg) Toyota-United Pro 1 22 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak Hearing Systems 1 Young rider classification 1 Janez Brajkovic (Slo) Discovery Channel 19.25.25 2 Johann Tschopp (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 4.53 3 Alberto Fernandez De La Puebla Ramos (Spa) Prodir-Saunier Duval 6.29 4 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 7.04 5 Peter Mazur (Pol) Prodir-Saunier Duval 7.52 6 Trent Lowe (Aus) Discovery Channel 8.37 7 Peter Hatton (Aus) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 9.04 8 Thomas Peterson (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 11.33 9 Jesse Anthony (USA) KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada 12.01 10 Florian Stalder (Swi) Phonak Hearing Systems 13.58 11 Michael Lange (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 19.36 12 Lucas Euser (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 20.12 13 Nick Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 29.54 14 Craig Lewis (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 30.38 15 Wesley Hartman (USA) Targetraining 38.39 16 Dan Bowman (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 39.46 17 Ian Macgregor (USA) Team TIAA-CREF 42.15 18 Olivier Kaisen (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 45.10 19 Dustin Macburnie (Can) Targetraining 48.02 20 Nic Ingels (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 52.11 21 Kasper Klostergaard Larsen (Den) Team CSC 1.03.06 22 Craig Wilcox (USA) Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity 1.13.26 Teams classification 1 Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 58.13.39 2 Phonak Hearing Systems 2.12 3 Team CSC 11.59 4 Prodir-Saunier Duval 15.59 5 Toyota-United Pro Cycling Team 16.59 6 Quick Step-Innergetic 19.22 7 Navigators Insurance Cycling Team 20.08 8 Jelly Belly Cycling Team 29.41 9 Davitamon-Lotto 33.00 10 Health Net Presented by Maxxis 33.43 11 Colavita Olive Oil-Sutter Home Wines 34.51 12 Team TIAA-CREF 40.35 13 Targetraining Cycling Team 46.14 14 The Jittery Joe's-Zero Gravity Pro 46.48 15 KodakGallery.Com-Sierra Nevada Pro 53.57
