tour de france stage 19 results
Tour de France 2008, stage 19: Chavenel takes the win. [1]
The Cofidis rider broke free from the peloton at the midpoint of the 165.5 kilometre stage with fellow Frenchman J?r?my Roy (Fran?aise des Jeux). [2]
S?rensen of Team Saxo Bank, the best-placed of the seven on the classement general, knew his 10:36 gap to maillot jaune Rinaldo Nocentini would result in the Italian’s AG2R La Mondiale squad keeping the break checked at no more than five minutes. [3]
Sylvain Chavanel has been on the attack more than any other rider in this year’s Tour de France, and at last his efforts have paid off with his career’s first Tour stage win. [2]
The 165.5km race from Roanne to Montlu?on included two minor climbs in the Monts de la Madeleine range during the opening hour of racing. [...] Cofidis’ Sylvain Chavanel, one of the most aggressive riders in this year’s Tour, got the stage win he’s been looking for on Friday, outsprinting Jeremy Roy (Francaise des Jeux), his breakaway companion of nearly 85 kilometers to take the win in Montlu?on. [1]
It is also the first time Discovery Channel, or the team formerly known as U.S. Postal Service, has captured the team title… by a healthy 19 minutes. [4]
With today’s move, he passed Lilian J?gou (Fran?aise des Jeux) with most kilometres spent in a break, however J?gou had to abandon the race after crashing heavily in stage seven. [...] Friday’s casualties were Damiano Cunego, who did not start after crashing face-first into a concrete barricade on stage 18, as well as Fabian Wegmann (Gerolsteiner), Juan Antonio Flecha (Rabobank) and Romain Feillu (Agritubel), who fell behind the peloton and failed to make the time cut. [2]
With around 50 kilometres left and as AG2R La Mondiale peeled off the front, its marking duties done for the day, S?rensen expected Columbia-HTC, the team of maillot vert Mark Cavendish, to begin the chase. [...] Working to S?rensen’s advantage was that the men he feared most, Martinez (Euskaltel-Euskadi) and Pellizotti (Liquigas), now first and second on the mountains classification, were partially cooked after fighting for the three mountain primes between kilometres 150 and 170.5. [3]
The peloton, however, did not allow much of a leash for Gerolsteiner’s Stephan Schumacher, Lampre’s Alessandro Ballan, Bouygues Telecom’s Pierrick Fedrigo and Euskaltel-Euskadi’s Egoi Martinez. [1]
The route from a race perspective was also well-designed, especially the stage over two big climbs out of Cuneo, Italy followed by the long, wild descent into tiny Jausiers. [5]
Casar was part of a long four-man break that included other well known riders: Axel Merckx (T-Mobile Team), Laurent Lefevre (Bouygues Telecom) and Michael Boogerd (Rabobank). [4]
Gerald Ciolek (Team Columbia) led the group across the line ahead of Erik Zabel and all the general classification contenders. [2]
Sources:
[1] Tour de France 2008 Stage 19 - VeloNews
[2] 95th Tour De France: Stage 19, Route Maps & Results | Cyclingnews.com
[3] Tour De France: Stage 12, Route Maps & Results | Cyclingnews.com
[4] 2007 Tour de France DVD, Video, Route, Stages, Teams, TV, Results and …
[5] 2009 Tour de France Live Video; 2008 Video, Results and Photos