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65th Paris-Nice - ProTour

France, March 11-18, 2007

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Stage 6 - March 17: Brignoles - Cannes, 200 km

Sánchez ascends as Rebellin holds on

By Jean-François Quénet in Cannes

Sánchez posts it
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Luis Leon Sanchez from Caisse d'Epargne survived a long and brilliant breakaway to win a memorable stage and move up to third place on GC, but he didn't favor his compatriot and former team-mate Alberto Contador who had attacked race leader Davide Rebellin. Rebellin hung on to the lead group in a frantic finale to stay on the throne with one day to go.

Reaching the finishing line of Cannes alongside the Mediterranean sea, Sanchez took time for putting his arms up and giving his jersey the best possible look. It was risky for his final position on GC. "But I really wanted to celebrate this win", he said before dedicating it to his brother who died last year. The flamboyant winner of the 2005 Tour Down Under never won a race since the tragedy, although he claimed the overall classification of the Mallorca series this year.

"This is a big win for my new team who believed in me after that", he said. His current sponsor Caisse d'Epargne is a French bank, so the motivation was pretty high for producing a spectacular show on the roads to the Côte d'Azur.

The 2006 season of the 23 year-old was also affected by the fall out of the Liberty Seguros then Astana team, where he started his career under the guidance of Manolo Saiz three years ago. In the crucial finale of stage 6 in Paris-Nice, he entered a dilemma with his former team-mate Contador, now with Discovery Channel and clearly the best rider in this race.

The fading Contador got a helping hand-sling from Sanchez with six kilometers to go, and the pair, along with Sanchez' team-mate David Lopez Garcia agreed to combine forces in order to get the stage win for Sanchez and the yellow jersey for Contador. But Sanchez attacked strongly one kilometer further. "We had agreed, but the real decisions are made in the team cars", a bitter Contador commented. "If I knew it would happen like that, I would have gone solo in the climb because I wasn't going flat out. I wanted to keep a few guys with me for cooperation on the flat finale."

Rebellin had a hard day
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Sanchez followed his team's the instructions, otherwise, he was facing the return of the 30-strong bunch including race leader Rebellin. For a while, the position of the Italian looked in danger, especially when he lost his entire Gerolsteiner team and was forced to set the pace by himself. But as the kilometres ticked down, Rebellin started to get help from other teams defending a fourth place on GC (Lampre for Tadej Valjavec), a fifth place (Liquigas for Franco Pellizotti), a sixth place (Française des Jeux for Sébastien Joly), a seventh place (Predictor-Lotto for Cadel Evans), or position on the team classification for the UCI Pro Tour (CSC).

This edition of Paris-Nice has been very passionate, but a similar result has occured every day, and this frustrates the people who take the initiative and make a spectacle. "I don't have any regret because we have given it all while we were away", said the new leader of the climber's competition, Thomas Voeckler.

"We played but we didn't win today", Discovery Channel's Dirk Demol said. "We wanted to make the race hard, but several teams consistently chased behind breakaways." Rebellin has kept the six seconds lead he got at the only uphill finish in Mende, but he doesn't feel calm yet. "It's not possible to control everyone," he said. "Contador is the strongest, I'm not able to follow him when he attacks in the climbs. I'm tired but I believe everyone is. I know the final stage in Nice, I know it's hard, I hope I'll have good legs for keeping the yellow jersey."

Nearing the end of his professional career, but determined to continue on through 2008, Rebellin might benefit from the good reputation he has developed over the years. This is his 16th season, and he's got no enemy in cycling which helps when it comes time to defend a yellow jersey. These days, common interests put aside, the politically correct Gerolsteiner team also looks likeit has less strength but more friends than Discovery Channel. The last stage of Paris-Nice promises a thrilling finale.

How it unfolded

Joost Posthuma (Rabobank), who had won the equivalent stage to Cannes two years ago was the most active riders in the initial skirmishes. Patrick Sinkewitz (T-Mobile) was another very motivated rider at the start. Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank), Philippe Gilbert (Française des Jeux) and Sylvain Chavanel (Cofidis) also made an attempt but the decision was made only at km 33 when six men broke clear: Chavanel again, Thomas Voeckler (Bouygues Telecom), Christian Vandevelde (CSC), Luis Leon Sanchez (Caisse d'Epargne), Levi Leipheimer and Tom Danielson (Discovery Channel).

They didn't build too much of a gap to the bunch although they rode hard, covering 47.8 kilometers in the first hour on a very difficult course. With such a demanding stage, a few riders retired, including stage one winner Jean-Patrick Nazon (Ag2r), three more from Bouygues Telecom after Xavier Florencio was a non-starter, and polka-dot-jersey wearer Heinrich Haussler, who was the first of four members of Gerolsteiner to give up.

Luis León Sánchez
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On the côte de Taraudeau (km 73.5), Voeckler started his campaign to take over from Haussler and the advantage of the six men away went up to 2'15. Voeckler was first at the top of seven consecutive classified climbs. En route to Cannes, the gap went up and down. It was two minutes again at the Col de Saint-Arnoux (km 117.5). On the hardest climb of the day, the Col de Bourigaille (km 138.5), race leader Davide Rebellin and the leftovers of his Gerolsteiner team-mates took the reigns of the bunch but didn't bring the escapees back.

As the peloton closed in to 1'10 at km 156, Chavanel decided to go by himself, and built up a 52 second advantage. Sanchez was the only one of the breakaway riders not to be swallowed by the bunch. He had enough strength left to follow Alberto Contador (Discovery Channel) and his team-mate David Lopez Garcia, who had gone clear in the final challenge of the day, the Col de Tanneron. Contador went over the top first ahead of Lopez Garcia, Sanchez and Chavanel, all together 20 seconds in front of Rebellin's group.

Chavanel was dropped with 6km to go, and the Spanish trio increased their lead to 35 seconds. Sanchez attacked with 5km to go, leaving Contador in the unlucky position of towing Lopez Garcia along. Lopez Garcia then attacked to try and lose Contador, but went too soon and both riders faded and got caught by the peloton. 28 seconds behind Sanchez, Mirko Lorenzetto (Milram) won the bunch and put his arms up the air, the same way Tom Boonen did it three days before when he thought he had won stage 3, not knowing that Luis León Sánchez was still away.

Photography

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Results

1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                    4.46.32 (41.879 km/h)
2 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram                                  0.28
3 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
4 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                                   
5 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                              
6 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole                          
7 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana                                        
8 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                             
9 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                                 
10 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                       
11 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                              
12 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                      
13 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                     
14 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           
15 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital                                  
16 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                       
17 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                    
18 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                      
19 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux                           
20 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir                           
21 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto                                 
22 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                              
23 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                       
24 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    
25 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          
26 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                          
27 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         
28 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux                          
29 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC                              
30 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel                         
31 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto                            0.36
32 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram                                 4.28
33 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                                   
34 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis                                      
35 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto                                 
36 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas                                       
37 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                             
38 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux                              
39 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                         
40 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile                                   
41 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                             
42 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
43 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           
44 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                            
45 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance                          5.38
46 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole                          
47 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                               
48 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile                                      
49 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir                      
50 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole                             
51 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel                                     
52 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC                                  
53 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                       
54 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                             
55 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                           
56 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel                                  
57 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance                           
58 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana                                       
59 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            
60 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana                                     
61 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile                                   
62 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                                
63 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic                         
64 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                         
65 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                           10.19
66 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana                                          
67 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank                                       
68 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                        
69 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel                            
70 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             
71 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                            
72 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis                                      
73 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux                        
74 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel                                     
75 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel                        15.21
76 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana                                 
77 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana                                   
78 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                     
79 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                         
80 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile                                        
81 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                                    
82 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                    
83 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank                                
84 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic                        
85 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                          
86 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas                                      
87 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                     
88 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                             
89 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                             
90 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                         
91 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole                              
92 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                         
93 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis                                       
94 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                                
95 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital                                
96 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram                                       
97 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram                                         
98 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC                                       
99 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile                                       
100 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir        
101 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas                              
102 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                               
103 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel                                  
104 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                    
105 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank                                     
106 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC                                   
107 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                    
108 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
109 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis                              
110 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram                                       
111 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile                                        
112 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                            
113 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel                          
114 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       
115 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                              
116 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                                
117 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                         17.47
118 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                           
119 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram                                  19.08
120 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram                                     
121 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile                                 
122 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC                                
123 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                               
124 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram                                   
125 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 
126 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                               23.35
DNS Francisco José Ventoso (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                
DNS Iban Velasco Murillo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                     
DNS Xavier Florencio (Spa) Bouygues Telecom                          
DNF Nicolas Crosbie (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           
DNF Laurent Lefèvre (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           
DNF Didier Rous (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                               
DNF Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                              
DNF Remmert Wielinga (Ned) Saunier Duval-Prodir                      
DNF Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel                              
DNF Mikel Gaztañaga Echeverria (Spa) Agritubel                       
DNF Marcus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                  
DNF Oliver Zaugg (Swi) Gerolsteiner                                  
DNF Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner                               
DNF Daniele Bennati (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                            
DNF Thorwald Veneberg (Ned) Rabobank                                 
DNF Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                         
DNF Tyler Farrar (USA) Cofidis                                       
DNF Sylvain Calzati (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                            
DNF Simon Gerrans (Aus) Ag2r Prévoyance                              
DNF Jean-Patrick Nazon (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                         
DNF Heinrich Haussler (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             
DNF Igor Abakoumov (Bel) Astana                                      
 
Points
 
Tavernes (D.554-d.71) (km 25)
1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    3 pts
2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              2
3 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                       1
 
Montauroux (Près) (km 165)
1 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    3 pts
2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           2
3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          1
 
Mountains
 
Côte De Réal Martin (km 5)
1 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile                                   4 pts
2 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          2
3 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                     1
 
Côte De Taradeau (km 73.5)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            7 pts
2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    5
3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             3
4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          2
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           1
 
Côte Des Tuillières (km 88)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            7 pts
2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    5
3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             3
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           2
5 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          1
 
Col De Saint-andrieux (km 96.5)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            7 pts
2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             5
3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          3
4 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    2
5 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           1
 
Col Du Défens (D.955-d.19) (km 103.5)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            7 pts
2 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           5
3 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             3
4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          2
5 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    1
 
Col De Saint-arnoux (km 117.5)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            4 pts
2 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    2
3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          1
 
Col De Bourrigaille (km 138.5)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           10 pts
2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             8
3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          6
4 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           4
5 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC                              3
6 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    2
7 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  1
 
Côte De Mons (km 143)
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                            4 pts
2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                             2
3 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                           1
 
Col Du Tanneron (km 180)
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                          7 pts
2 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         5
3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                    3
4 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                          2
5 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                              1
 
Young rider
 
1 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                    4.46.32
2 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                    0.28
3 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                        
4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                     
5 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                       
6 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                           
7 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux                           
8 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                      4.28
9 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                              
10 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                                  
11 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                   5.38
12 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile                                   
13 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana                                     10.19
14 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux                        
15 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana                            15.21
16 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                         
17 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                          
18 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                             
19 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole                              
20 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir         
21 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                                
22 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
23 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC                            19.08
24 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                                
25 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                  
26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                                23.35
 
Teams
 
1 Caisse d'Epargne                                           14.20.32
2 Team CSC                                                       0.28
3 Predictor-Lotto                                                0.36
4 Liquigas                                                       4.28
5 Cofidis                                                            
6 Saunier Duval-Prodir                                               
7 Française Des Jeux                                                 
8 Discovery Channel                                                  
9 Bouygues Telecom                                               5.38
10 Euskaltel-Euskadi                                             9.38
11 Ag2r Prévoyance                                              10.48
12 Crédit Agricole                                                   
13 Astana                                                            
14 T-Mobile                                                     14.48
15 Lampre-Fondital                                              15.21
16 Milram                                                       19.21
17 Gerolsteiner                                                      
18 Agritubel                                                    20.39
19 Rabobank                                                     25.12
20 Quickstep-Innergetic                                         25.41
 
General classification after stage 6
 
1 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                         26.39.39 (42.407 km/h)
2 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                       0.06
3 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       0.16
4 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                           0.23
5 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                               0.31
6 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux                        0.32
7 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto                              0.35
8 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir                        0.42
9 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                       
10 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                              
11 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                0.43
12 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         
13 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                        0.46
14 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux                      0.51
15 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                0.54
16 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                      1.03
17 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole                     1.05
18 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital                              1.06
19 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana                                   1.13
20 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                   1.17
21 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                   1.20
22 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                       1.26
23 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                  1.38
24 Iban Mayo (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                          1.39
25 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                 1.48
26 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel                     1.51
27 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                   1.52
28 Chris Horner (USA) Predictor-Lotto                            2.58
29 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                       4.48
30 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux                          5.15
31 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                     5.38
32 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                         6.03
33 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                        6.08
34 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                              6.44
35 Francisco Pérez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                        6.59
36 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                         7.00
37 Hubert Dupont (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                           7.09
38 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                               7.20
39 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                       8.19
40 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) Ag2r Prévoyance                          8.41
41 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel                              8.57
42 Dmitriy Fofonov (Kaz) Crédit Agricole                         9.04
43 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile                               9.17
44 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram                                 9.26
45 José Luis Arrieta (Spa) Ag2r Prévoyance                       9.50
46 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile                               9.55
47 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                           10.27
48 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile                                 10.56
49 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                        12.33
50 Benoît Joachim (Lux) Astana                                  15.13
51 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas                                  15.19
52 Frédéric Bessy (Fra) Cofidis                                 16.14
53 Matteo Tosatto (Ita) Quickstep-Innergetic                    16.18
54 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                             
55 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Discovery Channel                       16.20
56 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram                                16.41
57 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile                                    16.48
58 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC                         16.57
59 Christophe Rinero (Fra) Saunier Duval-Prodir                 17.08
60 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic               18.33
61 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto                            19.44
62 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana                                     19.49
63 Bert Roesems (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                           20.31
64 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole                     20.40
65 Markel Irizar (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                        20.48
66 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                   20.50
67 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                  21.15
68 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis                                 21.23
69 Mario Aerts (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                            21.39
70 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                21.40
71 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                    22.07
72 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana                                22.58
73 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                24.02
74 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC                             24.25
75 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             24.57
76 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram                                   25.01
77 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                        25.07
78 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana                              25.13
79 Matej Mugerli (Slo) Liquigas                                 25.52
80 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel                                26.34
81 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile                                  26.36
82 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                           28.09
83 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir    28.21
84 Aleksandr Kuschynski (Blr) Liquigas                          28.52
85 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana                            28.54
86 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                    28.55
87 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                           29.28
88 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank                                  29.42
89 Nicolas Portal (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne                        30.13
90 Benoît Salmon (Fra) Agritubel                                30.19
91 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank                                30.42
92 Iker Camaño (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                       31.02
93 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                        31.36
94 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC                               32.01
95 Axel Merckx (Bel) T-Mobile                                   32.40
96 Kevin Van Impe (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                    32.48
97 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital                           33.05
98 Daniele Righi (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                          33.31
99 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux                   33.51
100 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                              33.54
101 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                    34.11
102 Luke Roberts (Aus) Team CSC                                 34.22
103 Juan Antonio Flecha (Spa) Rabobank                          34.30
104 Rubén Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                         34.50
105 Sergio Paulinho (Por) Discovery Channel                     35.14
106 José Vicente Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                  36.00
107 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                   37.37
108 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole                        38.17
109 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel                             38.30
110 Cyril Dessel (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                               
111 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quickstep-Innergetic                  38.32
112 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC                           38.33
113 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis                         39.06
114 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank                                39.18
115 Ralf Grabsch (Ger) Milram                                   39.23
116 Björn Schröder (Ger) Milram                                 39.27
117 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic               40.20
118 Andoni Aranaga (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                      40.55
119 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis                                 41.22
120 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner                            41.39
121 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile                            42.20
122 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram                              42.43
123 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Milram                                43.30
124 Martin Müller (Swi) Milram                                  44.09
125 Matthew White (Aus) Discovery Channel                       45.32
126 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                               46.46
 
Points classification
 
1 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas                                 75 pts
2 Jérôme Pineau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                             72
3 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                               67
4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                         49
5 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         49
6 Samuel Sánchez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                           48
7 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Milram                                    44
8 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux                          43
9 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                        38
10 Luca Paolini (Ita) Liquigas                                     38
11 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank                                    38
12 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                            37
13 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) Ag2r Prévoyance                           36
14 Tom Boonen (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                           35
15 David Millar (GBr) Saunier Duval-Prodir                         34
16 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                    34
17 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                  32
18 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel                       31
19 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC                                31
20 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                         30
21 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          30
22 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                        28
23 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto                               27
24 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole                       27
25 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                           27
26 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux                        24
27 Igor Astarloa (Spa) Milram                                      23
28 Sebastian Siedler (Ger) Milram                                  22
29 Patxi Vila (Spa) Lampre-Fondital                                21
30 Guennadi Mikhailov (Rus) Astana                                 20
31 Maxim Iglinsky (Kaz) Astana                                     19
32 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                   19
33 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                   18
34 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole                            18
35 Patrick Calcagni (Swi) Liquigas                                 16
36 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana                                        16
37 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                                   15
38 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                  14
39 Josep Jufré (Spa) Predictor-Lotto                               12
40 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                     11
41 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                     11
42 Bobby Julich (USA) Team CSC                                     11
43 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                              11
44 Gregory Henderson (NZl) T-Mobile                                10
45 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux                             7
46 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                        7
47 Pierrick Fédrigo (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                          7
48 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel                                    6
49 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                               6
50 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                        5
51 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 5
52 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana                                    4
53 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis                              4
54 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                        4
55 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Milram                                    4
56 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis                                      3
57 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                     3
58 Aitor Pérez Arrieta (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       3
59 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                      3
60 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel                                  3
61 Roy Sentjens (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                               2
62 Roger Hammond (GBr) T-Mobile                                     2
63 Jakob Piil (Den) T-Mobile                                        2
64 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole                         2
65 Nicolas Jalabert (Fra) Agritubel                                 1
66 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile                                      1
67 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                                   1
 
Mountains classification
 
1 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                           48 pts
2 Tom Danielson (USA) Discovery Channel                            24
3 Sylvain Chavanel (Fra) Cofidis                                   20
4 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                         17
5 Sandy Casar (Fra) Française Des Jeux                             17
6 Yaroslav Popovych (Ukr) Discovery Channel                        17
7 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                      17
8 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         17
9 Levi Leipheimer (USA) Discovery Channel                          15
10 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas                                   13
11 Stéphane Augé (Fra) Cofidis                                     12
12 Bert Grabsch (Ger) T-Mobile                                     11
13 David López García (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       11
14 Dmitriy Muravyev (Kaz) Astana                                   11
15 Davide Rebellin (Ita) Gerolsteiner                               8
16 David Zabriskie (USA) Team CSC                                   8
17 Nicolas Vogondy (Fra) Agritubel                                  8
18 Gorka Verdugo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                            7
19 Alexandr Kolobnev (Rus) Team CSC                                 6
20 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre-Fondital                               5
21 Patrik Sinkewitz (Ger) T-Mobile                                  4
22 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                                    4
23 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) Lampre-Fondital                             4
24 Cadel Evans (Aus) Predictor-Lotto                                4
25 Christian Vande Velde (USA) Team CSC                             4
26 Jurgen Van de Walle (Bel) Quickstep-Innergetic                   3
27 Yoann Le Boulanger (Fra) Bouygues Telecom                        3
28 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank                                   3
29 Fränk Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                     2
30 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                   2
31 Joaquím Rodríguez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                         2
32 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis                              2
33 Sébastien Joly (Fra) Française Des Jeux                          1
34 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank                                    1
35 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                            1
36 Christophe Laurent (Fra) Crédit Agricole                         1
37 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                        1
38 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                                 1
 
Young rider classification
 
1 Alberto Contador (Spa) Discovery Channel                   26.39.45
2 Luis León Sánchez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne                       0.10
3 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Française Des Jeux                       0.45
4 Roman Kreuziger (Cze) Liquigas                                 0.48
5 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC                                    1.11
6 Jurgen Van den Broeck (Bel) Predictor-Lotto                    1.14
7 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis                                   1.32
8 Jesús Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir                      5.32
9 Bernhard Kohl (Aut) Gerolsteiner                               6.38
10 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) T-Mobile                               9.49
11 Tomas Vaitkus (Ltu) Discovery Channel                        16.12
12 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Astana                                     19.43
13 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis                                  21.09
14 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française Des Jeux                    22.01
15 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             24.51
16 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole                           28.03
17 Alberto Fernández De La Puebla (Spa) Saunier Duval-Prodir    28.15
18 José Antonio Redondo (Spa) Astana                            28.48
19 Alan Pérez (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi                           29.22
20 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre-Fondital                        31.30
21 Mathieu Ladagnous (Fra) Française Des Jeux                   33.45
22 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana                                     34.05
23 William Bonnet (Fra) Crédit Agricole                         38.11
24 Kasper Klostergård (Den) Team CSC                            38.27
25 Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner                             41.33
26 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel                                46.40
 
Teams classification
 
1 Caisse d'Epargne                                           80.00.45
2 Team CSC                                                       1.43
3 Predictor-Lotto                                                2.13
4 Discovery Channel                                              4.30
5 Française Des Jeux                                             4.53
6 Saunier Duval-Prodir                                           5.05
7 Bouygues Telecom                                               6.29
8 Cofidis                                                            
9 Liquigas                                                       6.59
10 Euskaltel-Euskadi                                            12.38
11 Ag2r Prévoyance                                              15.09
12 Astana                                                       15.12
13 Lampre-Fondital                                              19.11
14 T-Mobile                                                     22.47
15 Crédit Agricole                                              25.30
16 Gerolsteiner                                                 29.31
17 Quickstep-Innergetic                                         42.38
18 Milram                                                       47.17
19 Rabobank                                                     51.04
20 Agritubel                                                    56.16

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