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65th Tour de Pologne - ProT
Poland, September 14-20, 2008
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Stage 1 - September 14: Warszawa - Warszawa, 4.0km
Team CSC proves the strongest
By Daniel Marszalek in Warszawa
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Danish Team CSC clocked the fastest time over the quick, but technical course four-kilometre course in the centre of Warsaw. Danish time trial champion Lars Bak, being the first rider over the line, takes yellow leader's jersey.
The opening stage of the 65th Tour de Pologne started with Team Milram, which produced time of four minutes 12 seconds. It was good enough for an eventual eight place on the day.
Quick Step bettered the German team by one second. A quarter of an hour later, Liquigas, known as a strong TTT contender, went trough the course with average of 58 km/h and took the lead with time under four minutes and nine seconds.
The time stood as the best for a long time with even after Team Columbia, Rabobank, Caisse d'Epargne and last year's winner, Lampre.
The time in the driver's seat was finally over for Liquigas when powerful Team CSC-Saxo Bank started the course around Theatre Square. The CSC boys, led by Olympic and World TT champion Fabian Cancellara, set the fastest time at the intermediate check after two kilometres, and didn't slow down in the latter part of the trial.
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They finished the course with over three second advantage on Liquigas, crossing the line with its six riders: Bak, Cancellara, the Schleck brothers, Larsson and Voigt. Its time was four minutes and five seconds.
The drama was not over though. Behind CSC, next to start was Silence-Lotto, team of last year's winner Johan Van Summeren. He began the trial very fast, leading his team for first couple of hundreds metres. Unfortunately, on one of the corners the second rider in line fell, taking with him two others and stopping the fourth man. They not only had to slow down, but even wait for their fifth rider since his time counted for stage and general standings. No wonder that their time was in the end the slowest with 33 seconds deficit to Team CSC.
The Last team to start was long awaited Polish National Team, Polska-BGZ, which didn't have a great ride – it's time of over four minutes and 19 seconds was good enough for just sixteenth place.
Photography
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- Euskaltel-Euskadi
- Crédit Agricole
- Team Columbia give it full power.
- Cofidis
- Quick Step line up.
- Liquigas rode the fastest of the day, until CSC-Saxo Bank came along.
- Liquigas ready to roll.
- Liquigas goes in the opening stage of Tour de Pologne.
- Lampre
- Lampre on the start ramp.
- Scott-American Beef ready.
- Scott-American Beef hits the road.
- France's AG2R La Mondiale.
- Rabobank gives it the juice.
- Dutch power: Rabobank
- Rabobank lines up.
- Rabobank on the ramp
- Rabobank presented.
- Astana lines up.
- Astana is presented.
- Astana on the start ramp.
- Chris Horner leads Astana.
- Caisse d'Epargne fires.
- Spain's Caisse d'Epargne
- Germany's Gerolsteiner
- Gerolsteiner rolls.
- Danish outfit CSC-Saxo Bank line up.
- Olympic Champion Fabian Cancellara leads CSC-Saxo Bank on its winning run.
- CSC-Saxo Bank ready to rock.
- Team CSC-Saxo Bank wins the opening day of the Tour de Pologne.
- Team CSC-Saxo Bank on the podium after its winning effort in the Tour de Pologne.
- Lars Bak takes the leader's jersey after the win by CSC-Saxo Bank.
- Lars Bak (CSC-Saxo Bank) in the leader's yellow jersey of the Tour de Pologne.
Results
1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.05 (58.78 km/h) 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 5 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 0.03 8 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 9 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 10 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 11 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.04 13 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 18 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 0.05 20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 0.06 21 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 22 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 23 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 26 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 27 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 28 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 29 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 32 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 33 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 0.07 34 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 35 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 36 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 37 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 38 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia 39 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step 40 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 41 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 42 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 43 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 44 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 45 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 46 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 47 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 48 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 49 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 50 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 51 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 52 Allan Davis (Bel) Quick Step 53 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 54 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 0.08 55 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 56 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 58 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 59 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.09 60 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 61 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 62 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 63 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 66 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.10 67 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 68 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 71 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 72 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 73 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 0.11 74 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 75 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 76 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 77 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 78 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.12 79 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 80 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 81 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 82 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 83 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 84 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 85 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 86 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 87 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 88 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 89 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 90 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.13 91 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 92 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.12 97 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 98 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.13 99 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 100 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 101 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team 0.14 102 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team 103 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team 104 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team 105 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team 106 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team 107 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.15 108 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef 109 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 110 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 111 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 112 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 113 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.17 114 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 0.18 115 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 116 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team 117 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team 118 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 0.20 119 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 120 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 0.21 121 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 122 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 123 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 124 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 125 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 0.26 126 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.27 127 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.30 128 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 0.32 129 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 0.33 130 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 131 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 132 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 133 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 134 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 0.39 135 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.43 136 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 137 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef 138 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 0.45 139 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.53 140 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 0.57 141 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 0.33 142 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 143 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNS Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana Teams 1 Team CSC Saxo Bank 4.05.5 2 Liquigas 0.03.1 3 Caisse d'Epargne 0.03.8 4 Rabobank 0.05.6 5 Lampre 0.05.9 6 Team Columbia 0.06.6 7 Quick Step - Innergetic 0.06.8 8 Team Milram 0.06.9 9 Française des Jeux 0.07.9 10 Gerolsteiner 0.08.6 11 Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.10.2 12 Astana 0.10.6 13 Crédit Agricole 0.12.1 14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 0.12.3 15 Bouygues Telecom 0.12.7 16 Polish National Team 0.14.1 17 Scott - American Beef 0.14.6 18 AG2R - La Mondiale 0.21.4 19 Silence - Lotto 0.32.5 General classification after stage 1 1 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4.05 2 Frank Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 3 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 4 Andy Schleck (Lux) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 5 Gustav Erik Larsson (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 6 Jens Voigt (Ger) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 7 Franco Pellizotti (Ita) Liquigas 0.03 8 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas 9 Maciej Bodnar (Pol) Liquigas 10 Mauro Da Dalto (Ita) Liquigas 11 Kjell Carlström (Fin) Liquigas 12 Jose Joaquin Rojas Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 0.04 13 Luis Leon Sanchez Gil (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 14 José Ivan Gutierrez Palacios (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 15 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne 16 Rigoberto Uran (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 17 Marlon Alirio Perez Arango (Col) Caisse d'Epargne 18 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne 19 Vladimir Miholjevic (Cro) Liquigas 0.05 20 Paul Martens (Ger) Rabobank 0.06 21 Graeme Brown (Aus) Rabobank 22 Koos Moerenhout (Ned) Rabobank 23 Bauke Mollema (Ned) Rabobank 24 Pieter Weening (Ned) Rabobank 25 Bram De Groot (Ned) Rabobank 26 Mirco Lorenzetto (Ita) Lampre 27 David Loosli (Swi) Lampre 28 Francesco Gavazzi (Ita) Lampre 29 Andrea Grendene (Ita) Lampre 30 Marco Bandiera (Ita) Lampre 31 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank 32 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre 33 Thomas Lövkvist (Swe) Team Columbia 0.07 34 Tony Martin (Ger) Team Columbia 35 Marcel Sieberg (Ger) Team Columbia 36 Gerald Ciolek (Ger) Team Columbia 37 Marcus Burghardt (Ger) Team Columbia 38 Morris Possoni (Ita) Team Columbia 39 Alessandro Proni (Ita) Quick Step 40 Leonardo Scarselli (Ita) Quick Step 41 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick Step 42 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick Step 43 Dmytro Grabovskyy (Ukr) Quick Step 44 Luca Barla (Ita) Team Milram 45 Enrico Poitschke (Ger) Team Milram 46 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram 47 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram 48 Elia Rigotto (Ita) Team Milram 49 Alexander Efimkin (Rus) Quick Step 50 Bert Grabsch (Ger) Team Columbia 51 Stijn Devolder (Bel) Quick Step 52 Allan Davis (Bel) Quick Step 53 Vladimir Karpets (Rus) Caisse d'Epargne 54 Yauheni Hutarovich (Blr) Française des Jeux 0.08 55 Yoann Offredo (Fra) Française des Jeux 56 Jussi Veikkanen (Fin) Française des Jeux 57 Tom Stubbe (Bel) Française des Jeux 58 Timothy Gudsell (NZl) Française des Jeux 59 Fabian Wegmann (Ger) Gerolsteiner 0.09 60 Markus Zberg (Swi) Gerolsteiner 61 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner 62 Robert Förster (Ger) Gerolsteiner 63 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner 64 Matthias Russ (Ger) Gerolsteiner 65 Laurens Ten Dam (Ned) Rabobank 66 Jean Eudes Demaret (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.10 67 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 68 Amaël Moinard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 69 Frank Hoj (Den) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 70 Alexandre Blain (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 71 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 72 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 73 Chris Horner (USA) Astana 0.11 74 Daniel Navarro Garcia (Spa) Astana 75 Gregory Rast (Swi) Astana 76 Michael Schär (Swi) Astana 77 Thomas Frei (Swi) Astana 78 Angelo Furlan (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.12 79 Alexandre Botcharov (Rus) Crédit Agricole 80 Rémi Pauriol (Fra) Crédit Agricole 81 Christophe Le Mével (Fra) Crédit Agricole 82 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole 83 Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 84 Iñaki Isasi Flores (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 85 Francisco Javier Aramendia (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 86 Aitor Hernandez Gutierrez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 87 Andoni Lafuente (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 88 Markel Irizar Aranburu (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 89 Josu Agirre Aseginolaza (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi 90 Damien Gaudin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.13 91 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom 92 Julien Belgy (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 93 Mathieu Claude (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 94 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 95 Perrig Quemeneur (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 96 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Crédit Agricole 0.12 97 Ignas Konovalovas (Ltu) Crédit Agricole 98 Giovanni Bernaudeau (Fra) Bouygues Telecom 0.13 99 Roman Kireyev (Kaz) Astana 100 Andrey Zeits (Kaz) Astana 101 Krzysztof Jezowski (Pol) Polish National Team 0.14 102 Adam Wadecki (Pol) Polish National Team 103 Lukasz Bodnar (Pol) Polish National Team 104 Marek Rutkiewicz (Pol) Polish National Team 105 Bartlomiej Matysiak (Pol) Polish National Team 106 Dariusz Baranowski (Pol) Polish National Team 107 David Cañada (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.15 108 Manuele Mori (Ita) Scott - American Beef 109 Denis Flahaut (Fra) Scott - American Beef 110 Ermanno Capelli (Ita) Scott - American Beef 111 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Scott - American Beef 112 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas 113 Benat Intxausti Elorriaga (Spa) Scott - American Beef 0.17 114 Dennis Haueisen (Ger) Team Milram 0.18 115 Dominik Roels (Ger) Team Milram 116 Marcin Sapa (Pol) Polish National Team 117 Tomasz Kiendys (Pol) Polish National Team 118 Kanstantsin Siutsou (Blr) Team Columbia 0.20 119 Alberto Curtolo (Ita) Liquigas 120 Alexandr Pliuschin (Mda) AG2R La Mondiale 0.21 121 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2R La Mondiale 122 Tanel Kangert (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 123 Philip Deignan (Irl) AG2R La Mondiale 124 Tadej Valjavec (Slo) AG2R La Mondiale 125 Evgeny Sokolov (Rus) Bouygues Telecom 0.26 126 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.27 127 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC - Saxo Bank 0.30 128 Sylvester Szmyd (Pol) Lampre 0.32 129 Cadel Evans (Aus) Silence - Lotto 0.33 130 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Silence - Lotto 131 Francis De Greef (Bel) Silence - Lotto 132 Mario Aerts (Bel) Silence - Lotto 133 Wim Van Huffel (Bel) Silence - Lotto 134 Brett Lancaster (Aus) Team Milram 0.39 135 Jean-Charles Senac (Fra) AG2R La Mondiale 0.43 136 Raul Alarcon Garcia (Spa) Scott - American Beef 137 Javier Megías Leal (Spa) Scott - American Beef 138 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre 0.45 139 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone 0.53 140 René Mandri (Est) AG2R La Mondiale 0.57 141 Dario David Cioni (Ita) Silence - Lotto 0.33 142 Jurgen Van Den Broeck (Bel) Silence - Lotto 143 Jürgen Roelandts (Bel) Silence - Lotto DNF Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Astana Teams 1 Team CSC - Saxo Bank 12.15 2 Liquigas 0.09 3 GCE 0.12 4 Rabobank 0.18 5 Lampre 6 Team Columbia 0.21 7 Quick Step 8 Team Milram 9 Française Des Jeux 0.24 10 Gerolsteiner 0.27 11 Cofidis, le Credit Par Telephone 0.30 12 Astana 0.33 13 Credit Agricole 0.36 14 Euskaltel - Euskadi 15 Bouygues Telecom 0.39 16 Polish National Team 0.42 17 Scott - American Beef 0.45 18 AG2R La Mondiale 1.03 19 Silence-Lotto 1.39
