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12.02.2007/ Freire won Tropheo Mallorca, Nuyens overall winner Etoile de Bessèges, Charteau overall winner Tour
de Langkawi, Savoldelli not at Milano-San Remo, David Millar about Puerto: some are not guilty
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Looking back in anger
A Day in the Life of a Soigneur
Freire won
Tropheo Mallorca
Oscar Freire won the Tropheo Mallorca yesterday. The 3 times road world champion won
the bunch sprint after 100 kilometers. After a short ceremony for Isaac Gálvez, who won the Tropheo Mallorca last year and
died after a crash at the Sixdays of Gent, the riders started for the circuit of 10 laps along the coastline of Palme de Mallorca.
Francisco Jose Martinez (Andalucia-Cayasur) attacked but was caught again and altough there were several attacks the sprinter
teams managed to keep the bunch together for a bunch sprint which was won by Oscar Freire (Rabobank). Juan Miguel Mercado (Agritubel) and David Kopp (Gerolsteiner) had to abandon the race
after they crashed.
Today is another day for the sprinters. The route of
the 159 kilometer long Trofeo Cala Millor-Cala Bona is mainly flat.
Results 2007 Tropheo Mallorca
1. Oscar Freire - Rabobank
2. José Joaquin Rojas - Caisse d‘Epargne-Illes Balears
3. Guennadi
Mikhailov - Astana
4. Koldo Fernández - Euskaltel-Euskadi
5. Enrico Gasparotto - Liguigas
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| Oscar Freire (picture: Cyclingheroes) |
Nuyens overall winner Etoile de Bessèges
Belgian rider Nick Nuyens (Cofidis) won the overall of the Etoile
de Bessèges. Yesterdays final stage was won by Sebastien Chavanel (FD Jeux), who won the bunch sprint for Angelo Furlan (Credit
Agricole). Pieter Mertens (Predictor-Lotto) came in third. Nuyens came to Cofidis from the Belgian Quickstep team and
seems to be in a great shape already with the Belgian opening weekend only two weeks away.
Charteau overall winner Tour de Langkawi
Anthony Charteau has won the overall of the Tour de Langkawi. The
27 years old Credit Agricole rider defended his lead on the final stage which was won by Italian sprinter Alberto Loddo.
Results of stage 10
1 Alberto Loddo (Ita) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia
1.41.55
2 Nikolai Trusov (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems
3 Maximiliano Richeze (Arg) Ceramiche Panaria Navigare
4 Julian Dean (NZl) Crédit Agricole
5 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo-Meitan Hompo
Final general classification 2007 Tour de Langkawi
1 Anthony Charteau (Fra) Crédit Agricole
32.32.14
2 Jose Serpa (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia
1.02
3 Walter Pedraza (Col) Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia 1.34
4 David George
(RSA) South Africa
3.06
5 Jay Crawford (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team
4.05
6 Ghader Mizbani (Irn) Giant Asia Racing Team
4.14
7 Pavel Brutt (Rus) Tinkoff Credit Systems
4.21
8 Yokihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano
4.43
9 Luis Rodriguez (Spa) Unibet.com
4.53
10 Hossein Askari (Irn) Giant Asia Racing Team
4.54
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| Anthony Charteau during last years Tour de France (Picture: Cyclingheroes) |
Savoldelli not at Milano-San remo
Two times Giro d'Italia winner Paolo Savoldelli will start his season at the Vuelta Murcia (March 7). Il
Falco will not start at Milano-San Remo this year. Savoldelli told Italian daily sports Gazzetta dello Sport: "It [Vuelta
Murcia] will be my first test in my preparation for my main objective, the Giro. With the directors of my new team, Astana,
I worked out a programm that will, after my start in Spain, take me only once to Italy, before I start at the
Giro, " Savoldelli said.
David Millar about Puerto: some are not guilty
In an interview with Spanish daily sports AS, David Millar thinks that Operacion Puerto should be clarified
as soon as possible. Millar said: "amongst the concerned cyclists really are some that are not guilty, but who are paying.
The subject [Operacion Puerto] should be clarified as soon as possible."
Millar also spoke about new ideas in the fight against doping: "Perhaps directors and doctors
should also be sanctioned. Until now, only the cyclist is castigated. The cyclist disappears, but the system stays the same,
Millar said."
Millar was quite happy with his ITT stage win at last years Vuelta Espana but said he made a mistake by
racing the complete three weeks. Millar was tired after the Vuelta and wasn'r very strong anymore during the ITT world championships.
This year he wants to prepare like ITT world Champion Fabian Cancellara by leaving the Vuelta after two weeks. Millar also
told AS about his main goals for the 2007 season: "My objectives for this year are the prologue of the Tour de France,
disputed in London, and later on the World championship." Millar wants to gain five or six victories this year.
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| David Millar during the 2006 world championships (picture: Cyclingheroes) |
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