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93rd Tour de France - ProT
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Stage 17 - Thursday, July 20: Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne- Morzine, 200.5 km
Hors catégorie Landis!
Raging Phonak freak turns groupe maillot jaune upside down
By Anthony Tan, Hedwig Kröner and Brecht Decaluwé in Morzine
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Without a shadow of a doubt, today will go down as one of the finest stages in modern Tour de France history. Today, a 28 year-old American by the name of Floyd Landis, written off by most after his collapse of yesterday, staged a comeback that defied logic. And in one fell swoop, he finds himself back in contention to win the 2006 Tour de France. His stage win was reminiscent of Charly Gaul's 100 km breakaway in the Alps in the 1958 Tour to put himself back into contention from a seemingly lost position, before Gaul went onto win the final time trial and the Tour de France.
"I don't expect to win the Tour at this point," said Landis after his ride yesterday. "It's not easy to get back eight minutes. But I'm gonna fight, because you never know what's going to happen next."
No, Floyd, we didn't expect you to win, either. No, Floyd, it's not easy to reverse an eight-minute time deficit four days from the finish of a Grand Tour. No, Floyd, we didn't know what would happen next...
... But Floyd, when did you know you were going to do what you did today?
"The plan was from the beginning," he replied. "I was very disappointed yesterday. For me to have a bad day was something I couldn't control. But today I thought, 'I could at least show them that I could keep fighting'.
"After that, all I could do was hope that behind me they were disorganised or not strong enough to catch me. I didn't have a whole lot of information. I only had the time differences every now and then. It's hard to tell what's going on behind."
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His solo move, on the first of the day's five climbs and 128.5 kilometres from the finish in Morzine, quite simply looked irrational by the very nature of what lay ahead. However, as the fiery-eyed Phonak leader continued to turn a massive gear kilometre after kilometre, downing bidon after bidon, and picking off and spitting out each of the eleven members of the early breakaway one by one, the numbers game began turning in Floyd's favour.
"When the time gaps didn't change for a long period of time, I was pretty sure that they were working as hard as they could, and that I was going to be okay," he said.
By the summit of the final ascent of the Col de Joux-Plane, Landis had turned the groupe maillot jaune inside out and upside down. Sastre was five minutes down. Moreau was six. And Schleck, Klöden, Sinkewitz, Evans, Zubeldia and maillot jaune Pereiro were almost seven minutes in arrears.
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Crossing the line outside Morzine's Place de l'Office de Tourisme, the time gaps remained much the same. It took some time after crossing the line till Landis launched into his victory salute: a powerful, swinging right-hander, filled with fire and anger. Much the same treatment he gave to his rivals today, which left each and every one of them lying on the ground, winded, battered to a pulp.
"No matter what, whether I win or not, I'm going to prove to my team that I deserved to be a leader," said Landis. "But I didn't expect that I could do it quite so well."
Pereiro keeps maillot jaune
When Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears' Oscar Pereiro managed to get up, the 28 year-old discovered he was still the maillot jaune, but only by a matter of twelve seconds from Team CSC's Carlos Sastre.
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Nervously fidgeting with his golden tunic on the podium, Oscar Pereiro looked as if he'd seen a ghost. His decision not to attend the post-race press conference was a giveaway sign of the frailty with which he now holds it; as a friend and former team-mate, Pereiro knows Landis well, and with half a minute separating the two, he also knows his days are numbered.
"It took me four minutes to realize that I still had the yellow jersey," Pereiro told Cyclingnews. "During the stage, I thought it was over for me."
"Keeping the yellow jersey is a nice prize for my team," he added. "Yesterday, we thought that Floyd was out of GC, and today he's got the Tour in his hands. Theoretically, he's going to win it. He's the hot favourite now."
An exhausted Carlos Sastre told Cyclingnews, "I'm happy, as I've done the best I could do. This Tour has certainly been the most spectacular ever.
"The Tour has been very hard, and we are all very tired now, so I don't know how we will end up. I'll try to recuperate tomorrow and do the time trial flat-out. The gaps between the top three riders are very tight... "
Asked what he thought of Landis' performance today, he replied: "I have a lot of respect for him; he is a great rider. Today, he had a sensational ride."
What about the others?
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Based on his performances this week, Andreas Klöden's final day out in the Alps was as expected. His fourth-place overall, two and half minutes behind Pereiro, puts the T-Mobile captain within an arm's reach of the Paris podium - but the 31 year-old will need to ride the time trial of his life on Saturday to make it.
"At this Tour, anything's possible," he said. "I knew the climb, but I had bad legs today and just tried to follow."
Said Klöden said of his decision not to follow Landis early on: "I don't play roulette that early in the stage. It was [an] all or nothing [move]. Tomorrow, I'll just try to recuperate as much as I can and stay cool."
Davitamon-Lotto's Cadel Evans, a further 39 seconds behind, has about as much chance as Klöden, perhaps a little more, given his pedigree in the contre-la-montre. However, ever since the start of the race, one has the feeling we haven't seen the 29 year-old thoroughbred Aussie at his true best.
For Denis Menchov, Cyril Dessel, Christophe Moreau, Haimar Zubeldia and Michael Rogers, who make up the remaining names on the TdF leaderboard, they're all fighting an uphill battle like they did today, and more than likely, they'll stay pretty much where they are.
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"The Joux-Plane was the hardest climb of the Tour - it wasn't the right day for me on that climb!" said Rogers, half-joking.
"Floyd went off like a motorbike, unbelievable! He was doing forty kilometres an hour uphill! That he's able to rebound like this is fantastic. Congratulations to him.
"At T-Mobile, we had no tactics today," Rogers continued. "We just tried to hang on as long as possible. We thought the last climb would be the decisive one. Klöden had problems from the start; me too. We both struggled today. We never expected Landis to do so well today."
Strange things have happened at this year's Tour de France. Stranger things could still happen. But to bet against Floyd Landis winning the 93rd edition of La Grande Boucle would take a very brave man indeed.
"It wouldn't be any fun if I told you what was going to happen next!" Landis joked.
"What I hope happens, I think it's obvious. I'd like to win the race. The only decisive day left is the time trial. I'm fairly confident in my time trialling ability, assuming I didn't overdo it today. There's a chance of that, but we'll have to wait and see," he said.
How it unfolded
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It was already hot (30 degrees) under clear Alpine skies as the riders rolled out of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne with the official start of stage 17 given at 11.45. The beautiful morning saw one rider not start: Jose Rujano (Quick.Step), who had finished last yesterday, and was complaining about a sore throat as well as an inflamed toe.
The climbs on the menu for today were: Col des Saisies (km 82.5, Cat. 1, 14.9 km climb at 6.4 %), Col des Aravis (km 109, Cat. 2, 5.9 km climb at 7.1 %), Col de la Colombière (km 134, Cat. 1, 11.8 km climb at 5.8 %), Côte de Châtillon-sur-Cluses (km 162, Cat. 3, 5.1 km climb at 4.9 %), Col de Joux-Plane (km 188.5, HC, 11.7 km climb at 8.5 %), with two sprints scheduled at Le Grand-Bornand (km 122.0) and Verchaix (km 172.5).
The first attack of the day came from Paolo Tiralongo (Lampre-Fondital), Juan Manuel Garate (Quick-Step-Innergetic), Pietro Caucchioli (Crédit Agricole), Gilberto Simoni (Saunier Duval), Luca Paolini (Liquigas) and Anthony Geslin (Bouygues Telecom), who had 10 seconds at 6 km - but Team CSC found this break too dangerous and caught it only minutes later.
The next escape took 14 riders clear at km 12: Pavel Padrnos (Discovery Channel), Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC), Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile), Joost Posthuma and Pieter Weening (Rabobank), Daniele Righi (Lampre-Fondital), Juan Manuel Garate and Bram Tankink (Quick.Step), Patrice Halgand and Christophe Le Mevel (Crédit Agricole), Stéphane Auge (Cofidis), former mountains leader David De La Fuente (Saunier Duval), Philippe Gilbert (Française Des Jeux), and Luca Paolini (Liquigas). This seemed to be the right breakaway for the GC teams, but for various reasons, three riders had to sit up: De La Fuente (being a threat to Rasmussen), Posthuma and Weening (both probably assigned to support Rabobank leader Denis Menchov).
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The group was thus left with 11 members and ready to go. At km 30, their lead was already up to 1'30, and increasing rapidly. The average speed in the first hour of racing, on relatively flat terrain, was 50.3 km/h, while the peloton averaged around 43 clicks. The gap at the foot of the first climb, the Col des Saisies, was up to 11 minutes.
Yellow jersey wearer Oscar Pereiro's team, Caisse d'Epargne, and Phonak were driving the bunch, stabilising the break's lead, as the front riders started out on the difficult slopes of the Saisies. Then Phonak took over and quickly decimated the peloton, leaving it with about 30 riders, including all the overall favourites.
But the GC action began right away, as Andreas Klöden (T-Mobile) and Floyd Landis (Phonak) attacked hard after 70 kilometres of racing. Carlos Sastre (Team CSC), Michael Rogers (T-Mobile) and Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) were also able to follow the impressive move of the American, while Pereiro was in difficulty behind.
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After completely missing out on yesterday's chances, the Phonak rider was determined to make up for it all the way today, and attacked again, finally dropping his companions. Klöden, Rogers, Menchov, and Evans were dropped, and opted to go back to the yellow jersey group, where Caisse d'Epargne set up the tempo for Pereiro. Landis quickly reduced the gap to the lead group to about 6 minutes, with the bunch at 6'48 minutes about halfway up the climb.
The American pushed the big chain ring up the Col des Saisies, while the front men disintegrated: Paolini and Le Mevel went out the back, as Le Mevel's teammate Halgand was the one doing the forcing. Soon, the leaders were reduced to seven riders: Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile), Pavel Padrnos (Discovery Channel), Stuart O'Grady (Team CSC), Daniele Righi (Lampre-Fondital), Juan Manuel Garate, Patrice Halgand (Crédit Agricole) and Philippe Gilbert (Française Des Jeux).
At the top of the Saisies, Landis was under three minutes behind the leaders, and over three minutes ahead of the yellow jersey group, led by Pereiro's teammate Vicente Garcia Acosta. He made up more time on the descent, racing down into the valley like a demon.
In front, just after the feed zone after 97 kilometres, Halgand attacked his breakaway companions, who were back to 11 riders. Landis, in aero position, continued on his spectacular journey, catching the remainder of the break at the foot of the second climb of the day, the Col des Aravis. But many could not follow the tempo of the American, and after a few kilometres of climbing, only O'Grady and Righi were left with Padrnos, Garate, Sinkewitz and Landis.
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Behind, Garcia Acosta dropped down from the maillot jaune group, and there were just two Caisse d'Epargne riders left with Pereiro, with no other team willing to help in the chase. At the top of the Aravis, the Landis group was 1'45 behind leader Halgand, while the main bunch came over 5'45 behind the Phonak rider. On the descent, Landis followed by Righi and Sinkewitz closed the gap to Halgand, putting O'Grady and Padrnos out the back.
There was no mercy in today's race itinerary. After an intermediate sprint in Le Grand-Bornand, the road went uphill again for the third ascent of the day, the Col de la Colombière. Four riders led the race: Landis, Halgand, Sinkewitz and Righi. The peloton, still led by Caisse d'Epargne followed at 5'30.
At the bottom of the Colombière, Landis accelerated and dropped Righi with 76 km to go. Sinkewitz, for his part, stayed in Landis' wheel, with Halgand the third in the chain, as the main bunch was driven by Pereiro's teammates David Arroyo and Xabier Zandio, AG2R and CSC on their wheels.
With 8 km to go before the summit, Landis was given a new bike, because one of his rear wheel's spokes snapped. But he continued straight away, and had no trouble getting back to the front.
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The remainder of the chasers were caught by the bunch one by one: Gilbert, Augé... and Halgand also had to let go as Landis forced the tempo up the flatter parts halfway up the climb, on a mission to get back as much time as possible on his rivals. The gap continued to grow to 5'45, then over six minutes...
Landis was incredibly strong, pulling Sinkewitz over the climb like a motorbike. His DS in the car constantly provided him with fresh water bottles, which he mainly used to squirt over his helmet in search for a little relief. As the advantage of the Phonak rider grew over 6'30, the Caisse d'Epargne riders started to discuss things with their team director over the earpiece. T-Mobile, AG2R and Team CSC still waited to take over the work, and the gambling got to a crucial point, as Landis gained more and more time.
At the summit of the Colombière, Landis and Sinkewitz passed one minute behind Patrice Halgand, and the bunch was at 8'30, as De la Fuente sprinted up to take a few more mountain points.
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In the back, Pereiro's teammate Zandio finished his work and left Arroyo alone in front. And finally, as Landis's advantage grew over 9 minutes in the descent, virtually putting him back in yellow, the other teams reacted: After 145 km of racing, Danish CSC was the first to live up to its responsibilities within the remaining overall contenders's squads, as Carlos Sastre was second-placed on GC.
Padrnos, O'Grady and Righi were still sandwiched in between the race leaders and the bunch, and in the flat section before the penultimate climb, the Côte de Châtillon-sur-Cluses, Landis again showed his excellent time trial abilities, forearms draped over the handlebars in an aero position.
Padrnos and Righi were caught by the flying bunch with 42 km to go, and the gap slowly decreased. Jens Voigt did a great job for his team - and a few clicks later, T-Mobile finally also sent its troops to the front, with Serguei Gonchar and Matthias Kessler taking over from Voigt and Vandevelde: a temporary alliance between CSC and the German team was established.
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The small penultimate climb of the Côte de Châtillon-sur-Cluses was the last appetizer before the final showdown, the Col de Joux-Plane, another mythical Tour de France ascent. In the flattish part before the last climb, the gap was reduced to a little less than 8 minutes, but Landis was flat out, time trialling at about 55-60 km/h, with a light tailwind, favourable for the solo leader. O'Grady was caught, but couldn't work with his CSC teammates.
As the bunch came under the 25 km-to-go mark, the gap was still at 7'25. As Landis and Sinkewitz attacked the last climb, the Col de Joux-Plane, Halgand got caught by the bunch. This was soon to be the fate of Sinkewitz too, who just simply couldn't hold Landis back on this spectacular ride today. The T-Mobile rider, who hadn't done a turn for many kilometres, was dropped as Landis rode away, once again.
The last mountain was sure to cause some damage in the main bunch: Leipheimer was the first to go out, with most of the most of the Discovery team (Azevedo, Hincapie, Popovych) and the CSC and T-Mobile lead-out men. Soon, Carlos Sastre got a gap over the group, as Schleck drove him on; and then, the Spanish CSC leader went full gas on his own.
Christophe Moreau, who gave up his role as a helper for Dessel then and there, as well as Evans chased Sastre, who with 19 km to go, was riding at 6 minutes behind the incredible Landis. Behind them, Menchov and Boogerd followed, then Cunego and Schleck, then the yellow jersey group with Pereiro, Dessel and Klöden and most of the other GC riders.
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But Evans couldn't hold Moreau's pace, and soon enough, the Frenchman was on his own trying to catch Sastre, who made up one minute over Pereiro halfway into the climb, catching Sinkewitz on the way. With 5 km before the summit, Sastre was 5'47 behind Floyd, then Moreau at 6'09, then Menchov at 6'21, then maillot jaune Pereiro at 7 minutes... It all happened there in the quest for GC, as Klöden and Dessel were in difficulty, but yo-yoed back on.
Meanwhile, Cunego accelerated in a bid to take the white jersey of Markus Fothen. He caught Moreau for a while, and even passed him, but the Frenchman came back, and then it was Cunego's turn to get dropped. Behind, Klöden was helped by Sinkewitz, trying to keep in contact with Pereiro, Rasmussen and Zubeldia, and Dessel was out the back.
The cycling world order at the summit of the Joux-Plane was: An absolutely amazing Landis, then Sastre at 5'08, Moreau at 5'58, Cunego at 6'19, Pereiro, Klöden, Schleck, Zubeldia and Boogerd at 6'52, Rasmussen, Evans, Menchov and Sinkewitz at 7'19, Dessel, Guerini and Valjavec at 8'20. Who would have thought that Landis was to make such an extraordinary come-back today?
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All he had to do now was power on to the finish, which did even though the descent was quite dangerous: the tarmac, again, had melted in some parts, and the Phonak leader was cautious enough while still putting 30 seconds into Sastre. Dessel crashed on the descent, but luckily without hurting himself, as Landis celebrated his victory in the crowded Morzine.
Stage 18 - Friday, July 21: Morzine - Mâcon, 197 km
A classic transitional stage heading west out of the Alpes from Morzine with three rated climbs including the Col de Berthiand with 66km to go. The Tour's GC is not likely to change much, as the favourites will want to rest their legs for Saturday's ITT. With the rest of the Tour peloton dog-tired, this will be a stage where strong riders can get in a break and hang on until the end. Will Chris Horner finally score a stage win in Mâcon in the heart of the Burgundy wine region?
Photography
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Images by Jonathan Devich/epicimages.us
- The first group comes through on the Col des Saisies with Mont Blanc in the background.
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) stayed hydrated on a hot day like today.
- The yellow jersey group comes into site.
- And the yellow jersey group continues on the climb.
- The main bunch comes up Saisies.
- The bunch climbs through the beautiful scenery of the Alps.
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) comes by setting a blistering pace.
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) on the way to his incredible win in Morzine.
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) trying to minimise his loses on the Col de Joux-Plane.
- Oscar Pereiro (Illes Balears) comes past with mountain leader Mickael Rasmussen close on his wheel.
- Cadel Evans (Davitamon-Lotto) leads Frank Schleck (CSC) up the Joux-Plane.
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) finds it hot going on the climb.
- Cyril Dessel (AG2R) leads another group up today's difficult climb.
- A small group makes it's way through the tall pines on the Joux-Plane.
- Christophe Moreau (AG2R) fights hard to not lose much time.
- Pietro Caucchioli (Credit Agricole) struggled a bit today.
- Patrick Sinkewitz (T-Mobile) makes it up.
- Patrice Halgand (Credit Agricole) gets some encouragement from the team car.
- Chris Horner (Davitamon-Lotto) rides in by himself.
Images by Roberto Bettini/www.bettiniphoto.net
- A helicopter shadows the riders
- Go you good thing, go!
- Oscar Pereiro (Phonak) with David Millar in tow
- Pereiro and Moreau climbing
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) descending
- Christophe Le Mevel (CA) was part of the early break
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) on the front of the group
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) with Sinkewitz, Righi and O'Grady
- Landis and Sinkewitz were the only two left after a while
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) in stage 17
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) kept himself cool today with a handy bidon
- This is the way Floyd Landis kept his body temperature down
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) gets ready to attack
- The devil tries to tempt Carlos Sastre
- The devil can jump
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) salutes on the podium
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) crosses the line in Morzine
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) receives the best young rider jersey
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) is congratulated by Bernard Hinault
Images by Fotoreporter Sirotti
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) chats with McEwen
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) in yellow during the early part of the stage
- Florent Brard drinks another bidon
- Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta rides tempo on the Col des Saisies
- Florent Brard was up front for Caisse d'Epargne
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) with Vladimir Karpets in tow
- Nicolas Jalabert drives the tempo on the climb
- Michael Rogers couldn't keep up with Landis, and neither could Kloden, Sastre and Evans
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) attacks on the Col des Saisies
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) checks back
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) drops Kloden and co. on the first climb
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) nestled in the bunch
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) pours another bottle of water on his head
- Caisse d'Epargne trying to keep control
- Patrice Halgand (Credit Agricole) leads the break on the descent of the Saisies
- Levi Leipheimer (Gerolsteiner) takes a corner
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) descending
- George Hincapie (Discovery) taking a corner smoothly
- Andreas Kloden (T-Mobile) was not quite at his best today
- Robbie McEwen (Davitamon) leads a group on a twisty descent
- The peloton chases Landis
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) with Patrik Sinkewitz (T-Mobile) glued to his wheel
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) rides up the Col de Joux-Plane
- The yellow jersey on the Col de Joux-Plane
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) with Michael Rasmussen
- Denis Menchov (Rabobank) sees Cunego up ahead
- Boogerd, Evans, Schleck and Menchov riding together for a bit
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) riding his own tempo
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) in the hunt
- Schleck and Evans climbing together
- Denis Menchov (Rabobank) with Michael Boogerd
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) on the front of his group on the Joux-Plane
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) rounds a bend
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) is having a great final week
- Christophe Moreau (AG2R) climbing well today
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) rides behind Pereiro
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) suffering
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) in pursuit of Landis
- Christophe Moreau (AG2R) with Evans on his wheel
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) tries to limit the damage on the Joux-Plane
- Pietro Caucchioli (Credit Agricole) rides ahead of the group maillot jaune
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) leading Pereiro, Kloden and Mazzoleni
- Denis Menchov (Rabobank) with Boogerd, Cunego, Schleck and Evans
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) very happy with his victory
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) after crossing the line
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) finishes second
- Christophe Moreau (AG2R) did a great ride for third
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) crosses for fourth
- Michael Boogerd (Rabobank) wins the sprint for fifth place, 7'08 behind Landis
- Boogerd leads Pereiro home for fifth
- Rasmussen, Sinkewitz and Menchov cross the line
- I'm back says Floyd Landis
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) is still very much in the Tour
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) salutes
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) not looking quite as comfortable as he did
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) still in yellow…just
- Michael Rasmussen (Rabobank) is the probable mountains champion of the Tour 2006
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) is awarded the best young rider jersey
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) in the white jersey of best young rider
- Damiano Cunego (Lampre) is the new best young rider, by just 5 seconds
Images by AFP Photo
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) attacks on the Col des Saisies, with Kloden, Rogers, Sastre and Evans in tow
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) leaves Kloden and Sastre behind on the Saisies
- Oscar Pereiro (Caisse d'Epargne) accompanied by David Arroyo
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) rides past a fan who is busting a move
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) will have sore arms, but he used his aero position well today
- Carlos Sastre (CSC) in pursuit of Landis
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) uses his descending skills to good effect too
- Floyd Landis (Phonak) waves his fist of fury at the finish
- Landis with Phonak's PR man Georges Luchinger at the finish
Results
1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 5.23.36 (37.175 km/h) 2 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 5.42 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 5.58 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6.40 5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 7.08 6 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 7 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 8 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 9 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 7.20 11 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 7.24 12 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 13 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 14 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 8.37 15 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 16 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 8.49 17 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 9.27 18 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 19 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile 20 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 21 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 22 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 12.34 23 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 13.37 24 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 25 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 14.35 26 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 15.39 27 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 15.49 28 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 29 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 17.27 30 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 19.53 31 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 21.23 32 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 33 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 34 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 35 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 36 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 37 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 38 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 39 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 40 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 26.06 41 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 31.03 42 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) T-Mobile 43 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 31.12 44 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 45 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 46 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 47 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 48 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 49 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 32.22 50 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick-Step-Innergetic 51 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick-Step-Innergetic 52 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 53 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 54 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 33.05 55 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 56 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas 36.29 57 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 58 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 37.27 59 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 60 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval 43.44 61 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 62 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 52.02 63 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 64 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 65 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 66 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 67 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak 68 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 69 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 70 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 71 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 72 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 73 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 74 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 75 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 76 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram 77 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 78 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 79 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak 80 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 81 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak 82 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 83 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 84 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 85 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 86 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 87 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 88 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 89 Viatscheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 90 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 91 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 92 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 94 Christian Knees (Ger) Milram 95 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Agritubel 96 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval 97 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 98 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak 99 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 100 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 101 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 102 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 103 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 104 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 105 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 106 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 107 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2R-Prevoyance 108 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 109 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 110 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 111 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval 52.13 112 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 113 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval 114 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step-Innergetic 115 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 116 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 117 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis 118 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 119 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Phonak 120 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 121 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 122 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 123 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis 124 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis 125 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 126 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 127 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 128 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 129 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 130 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 131 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 132 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 133 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 134 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 135 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 136 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 137 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 138 Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 139 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 140 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 141 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 142 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 143 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval DNS José Rujano (Ven) Quick-Step-Innergetic DNF Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero (Spa) Phonak DNF José Angel Gomez (Spa) Saunier Duval DNF Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) Agritubel Points 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 20 pts 2 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 17 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 15 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 13 5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 12 6 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 10 7 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 9 8 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 8 9 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 10 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 6 11 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 5 12 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 4 13 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 3 14 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 2 15 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 1 Mountains Col Des Saisies - Cat. 1, km 82.5 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 15 pts 2 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 13 3 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick-Step-Innergetic 11 4 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 9 5 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 8 6 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 7 7 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 6 8 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 5 Col des Aravis - Cat. 2, km 109 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 pts 2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 9 3 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 8 4 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 5 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 6 6 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 5 Col De la Colombière - Cat. 1, km 134 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 15 pts 2 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 13 3 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 11 4 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 9 5 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 8 6 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 7 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick-Step-Innergetic 6 8 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 5 Côte De Châtillon-Sur-Cluses - Cat. 3, km 162 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 4 pts 2 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 3 3 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2 4 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1 Col De Joux-Plane - HC, km 188.5 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 40 pts 2 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 36 3 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 32 4 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 28 5 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 24 6 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 20 7 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 16 8 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 14 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 12 10 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 10 Sprints Le Grand-bornand, km 122 1 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 6 pts 2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 4 3 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 2 Verchaix, km 172.5 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 6 pts 2 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 4 3 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 2 Young rider 1 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 5.30.16 2 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.47 3 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 6.57 4 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 24.32 5 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25.42 6 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 26.25 7 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 45.22 8 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 9 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 10 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 11 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 12 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 13 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 14 Christian Knees (Ger) Milram 15 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval 16 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 17 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 45.33 18 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 19 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 20 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval Most combative 1 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak Teams 1 Rabobank 16.32.44 2 T-Mobile Team 1.13 3 AG2R Prevoyance 2.18 4 Lampre-Fondital 2.48 5 Team CSC 12.17 6 Caisse D’Epargne-Illes Balears 32.13 7 Discovery Channel Team 42.13 8 Credit Agricole 44.51 9 Euskaltel - Euskadi 48.46 10 Bouygues Telecom 56.07 11 Gerolsteiner 1.00.56 12 Davitamon - Lotto 1.03.32 13 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 1.17.46 14 Phonak Hearing Systems 1.22.08 15 Saunier Duval - Prodir 1.27.27 16 Quick Step - Innergetic 1.34.50 17 Liquigas 1.43.04 18 Francaise Des Jeux 1.46.55 19 Team Milram 2.14.10 20 Agritubel General classification after stage 17 1 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 80.08.49 (40.528 km/h) 2 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 0.12 3 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 0.30 4 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 2.29 5 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 3.08 6 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 4.14 7 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 4.24 8 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 5.45 9 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 8.16 10 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 12.13 11 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 13.48 12 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 13.52 13 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 15.46 14 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 17.18 15 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 17.23 16 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 20.50 17 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 21.04 18 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 22.01 19 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 34.01 20 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 37.11 21 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 37.45 22 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 39.47 23 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 47.16 24 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 48.51 25 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 50.07 26 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 51.48 27 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 55.43 28 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile 57.52 29 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.00.48 30 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak 1.03.27 31 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.04.02 32 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 1.07.33 33 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1.10.43 34 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.14.19 35 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 1.17.00 36 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel 1.18.35 37 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 1.19.12 38 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 1.19.31 39 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.23.11 40 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval 1.25.53 41 Christophe Brandt (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 42 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval 1.28.20 43 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis 1.28.57 44 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 1.34.33 45 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 1.35.22 46 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 1.36.13 47 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 1.36.55 48 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 1.37.52 49 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 1.37.55 50 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.39.34 51 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.40.26 52 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas 1.44.09 53 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 1.46.26 54 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 1.48.08 55 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 1.48.43 56 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1.48.55 57 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) T-Mobile 1.51.03 58 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 1.52.41 59 Gilberto Simoni (Ita) Saunier Duval 1.56.57 60 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 1.59.58 61 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval 2.00.20 62 Christopher Horner (USA) Davitamon-Lotto 2.03.11 63 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Phonak 2.05.51 64 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 2.06.39 65 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 2.13.21 66 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.20.52 67 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.21.06 68 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 2.22.15 69 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.22.38 70 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 2.23.38 71 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick-Step-Innergetic 2.24.12 72 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 2.26.26 73 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.26.41 74 Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.27.39 75 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.30.49 76 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.33.16 77 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 2.34.25 78 Simon Gerrans (Aus) AG2R-Prevoyance 2.37.26 79 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 2.37.27 80 Manuel Calvente (Spa) Agritubel 2.41.20 81 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 2.41.31 82 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram 2.43.45 83 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.45.02 84 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.46.25 85 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 2.46.48 86 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.46.55 87 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.48.28 88 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 2.48.58 89 Viatscheslav Ekimov (Rus) Discovery Channel 2.49.33 90 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2.49.38 91 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick-Step-Innergetic 2.49.45 92 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 2.50.00 93 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 2.50.32 94 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step-Innergetic 2.51.11 95 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 2.52.36 96 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval 2.53.22 97 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 2.53.57 98 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.54.37 99 Alexandre Moos (Swi) Phonak 2.55.15 100 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 2.55.31 101 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 2.59.26 102 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram 2.59.27 103 Christian Knees (Ger) Milram 3.00.04 104 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 3.00.13 105 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 3.00.52 106 Ronny Scholz (Ger) Gerolsteiner 3.01.49 107 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 3.02.09 108 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 3.03.34 109 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.03.40 110 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 3.04.00 111 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Phonak 3.06.21 112 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 3.07.45 113 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 3.09.01 114 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.10.09 115 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 3.10.48 116 Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3.12.34 117 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.12.39 118 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 3.14.10 119 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 3.15.15 120 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 3.15.37 121 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 3.15.53 122 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 3.15.56 123 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 3.16.01 124 Victor Hugo Pena (Col) Phonak 3.16.40 125 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 3.16.47 126 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 3.17.41 127 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 3.18.52 128 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 3.19.18 129 Bradley Wiggins (GBr) Cofidis 3.19.19 130 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.19.56 131 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 3.22.02 132 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas 3.23.54 133 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 3.24.02 134 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis 3.27.21 135 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 3.28.22 136 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 3.28.34 137 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 3.30.56 138 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 3.31.03 139 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 3.31.16 140 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.43.21 141 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 3.46.37 142 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.50.05 143 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 3.50.36 Points classification 1 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 252 pts 2 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 207 3 Erik Zabel (Ger) Milram 172 4 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole 159 5 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 152 6 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas 148 7 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 115 8 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 99 9 Jimmy Casper (Fra) Cofidis 98 10 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 84 11 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 83 12 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 76 13 Michael Rogers (Aus) T-Mobile 72 14 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 66 15 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 62 16 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 58 17 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 57 18 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 57 19 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 51 20 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas 50 21 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 49 22 Arnaud Coyot (Fra) Cofidis 49 23 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 48 24 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 46 25 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile 44 26 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 43 27 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 42 28 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 42 29 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 41 30 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 40 31 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 40 32 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 40 33 Marco Velo (Ita) Milram 40 34 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 39 35 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 39 36 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 38 37 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 37 38 Walter Beneteau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 34 39 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 33 40 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 33 41 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 33 42 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 33 43 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 32 44 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 30 45 Michael Albasini (Swi) Liquigas 30 46 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 28 47 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 28 48 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 27 49 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 26 50 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 26 51 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 25 52 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 24 53 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 24 54 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 24 55 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 22 56 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 22 57 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 22 58 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 22 59 Christian Vandevelde (USA) Team CSC 22 60 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval 22 61 Sebastian Lang (Ger) Gerolsteiner 21 62 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 20 63 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 19 64 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 16 65 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 16 66 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole 16 67 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 16 68 Serguei Gonchar (Ukr) T-Mobile 15 69 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 15 70 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 14 71 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 14 72 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval 14 73 Florent Brard (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 12 74 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 12 75 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 10 76 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 10 77 Christian Knees (Ger) Milram 10 78 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 9 79 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak 8 80 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 8 81 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 7 82 Stéphane Auge (Fra) Cofidis 7 83 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 6 84 Gustav Larsson (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 6 85 Robert Hunter (RSA) Phonak 6 86 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 5 87 Wim Vansevenant (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 5 88 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval 4 89 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 90 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 4 91 Jose Vicente Garcia Acosta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 4 92 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 3 93 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 3 94 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole 3 95 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 2 96 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis 2 97 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval 2 98 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Phonak 2 99 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 2 100 José Azevedo (Por) Discovery Channel 1 101 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 1 102 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 1 103 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 1 104 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 1 105 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 106 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step-Innergetic -1 107 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom -3 108 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance -5 109 Paolo Tiralongo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital -5 110 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic -5 111 Bram Tankink (Ned) Quick-Step-Innergetic -10 112 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi -13 113 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi -15 114 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas -15 Mountains classification 1 Michael Rasmussen (Den) Rabobank 163 pts 2 Floyd Landis (USA) Phonak 131 3 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 113 4 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 99 5 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC 94 6 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 93 7 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 80 8 Cyril Dessel (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 72 9 Andreas Klöden (Ger) T-Mobile 64 10 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Gerolsteiner 63 11 Oscar Pereiro (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 63 12 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 61 13 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Liquigas 60 14 Christophe Moreau (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 60 15 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital 42 16 Patrice Halgand (Fra) Crédit Agricole 41 17 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile 41 18 Sandy Casar (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 39 19 Inigo Landaluze (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 38 20 Sylvain Calzati (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 37 21 Denis Menchov (Rus) Rabobank 36 22 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank 36 23 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval 35 24 Cadel Evans (Aus) Davitamon-Lotto 34 25 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 34 26 Salvatore Commesso (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 31 27 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC 30 28 Pierrick Fedrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 30 29 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 28 30 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis 26 31 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 26 32 Iker Camano (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 25 33 Cristian Moreni (Ita) Cofidis 24 34 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 24 35 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital 23 36 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel 23 37 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick-Step-Innergetic 22 38 Stuart O'Grady (Aus) Team CSC 22 39 Ruben Lobato (Spa) Saunier Duval 20 40 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 20 41 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 20 42 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 19 43 Juan Manuel Garate (Spa) Quick-Step-Innergetic 18 44 Eddy Mazzoleni (Ita) T-Mobile 17 45 Mario Aerts (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 17 46 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 16 47 Matthias Kessler (Ger) T-Mobile 14 48 Egoi Martinez (Spa) Discovery Channel 14 49 Xabier Zandio (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 13 50 Marzio Bruseghin (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 12 51 David Moncoutié (Fra) Cofidis 12 52 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 11 53 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 10 54 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel 10 55 Christophe Le Mevel (Fra) Crédit Agricole 10 56 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) T-Mobile 9 57 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram 9 58 George Hincapie (USA) Discovery Channel 9 59 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC 9 60 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) AG2R-Prevoyance 8 61 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole 8 62 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner 7 63 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) Discovery Channel 7 64 Unai Etxebarria (Ven) Euskaltel-Euskadi 7 65 Stephane Goubert (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 6 66 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2R-Prevoyance 6 67 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Agritubel 6 68 Laurent Lefevre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 5 69 David Arroyo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears 5 70 Axel Merckx (Bel) Phonak 5 71 Ivan Ramiro Parra (Col) Cofidis 5 72 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 5 73 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval 3 74 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3 75 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas 3 76 Oscar Freire (Spa) Rabobank 2 77 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 2 78 Alessandro Ballan (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 1 79 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1 80 Cédric Coutouly (Fra) Agritubel 1 Young rider classification 1 Damiano Cunego (Ita) Lampre-Fondital 80.26.07 2 Marcus Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.05 3 Matthieu Sprick (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 1.23.08 4 David De La Fuente (Spa) Saunier Duval 1.31.25 5 Moises Duenas (Spa) Agritubel 1.42.40 6 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Francaise Des Jeux 1.49.21 7 Francisco Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval 2.17.07 8 David Lopez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 2.27.44 9 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 2.31.10 10 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 2.32.20 11 Riccardo Ricco (Ita) Saunier Duval 2.36.04 12 Benoît Vaugrenard (Fra) Francaise Des Jeux 2.37.19 13 Christian Knees (Ger) Milram 2.42.46 14 Bernhard Eisel (Aut) Francaise Des Jeux 2.44.51 15 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Francaise Des Jeux 2.50.27 16 Johan Vansummeren (Bel) Davitamon-Lotto 2.55.21 17 Eduardo Gonzalo (Spa) Agritubel 2.57.57 18 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas 2.58.43 19 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Quick-Step-Innergetic 3.13.45 20 Aitor Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 3.26.03 Teams classification 1 T-Mobile Team 240.43.27 2 Team CSC 8.41 3 Rabobank 12.31 4 AG2R Prevoyance 19.06 5 Lampre-Fondital 40.09 6 Caisse D’Epargne-Illes Balears 43.02 7 Gerolsteiner 1.45.09 8 Euskaltel - Euskadi 2.09.23 9 Discovery Channel Team 2.10.57 10 Phonak Hearing Systems 2.37.38 11 Credit Agricole 2.39.43 12 Saunier Duval - Prodir 2.53.37 13 Davitamon - Lotto 2.57.10 14 Cofidis Credit Par Telephone 3.09.33 15 Bouygues Telecom 3.12.23 16 Agritubel 4.17.55 17 Francaise Des Jeux 5.23.37 18 Team Milram 6.17.13 19 Liquigas 6.21.19 20 Quick Step - Innergetic 6.42.49
