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14.10.2007/ After 256 kilometers Milram's Alessandro Petacchi wins Paris-Tours. Ale-Jet
outsprinted Francesco Chicci (Liquigas) and Oscar Freire (Rabobank) in a bunch sprint.
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| Alessandro Petacchi during this years Giro d'Italia (picture: Heinz zwicky) |
The teamwork between Milram's two top sprinters Alessandro Petacchi and Erik Zabel worked out perfectly at
the finish in Tours. Erik Zabel prepared the sprint for Alessandro Petacchi who only had to finalize the sprint on the last
150m. "The race today was quite nervous, the first 150 kilometres we went nearly with an average speed of 50 kilometres per
hour", explained Zabel after the race. "Therefore lots of riders were already tired in the final. Like that we weren't able
to do our train as Alessandro likes it the most. Marco Velo and Alberto Ongarato had to work a lot before. I passed Alessandro
when nearly 600 metres to go and took him along. When 500 metres to go I started the sprint and prepared the final up to 150
meters
before the finish-line. And that's actually the right moment, because 500 meters are to long for a pure sprinter. So at the
end it was perfectly for us and Alessandro finished sovereignly."
For Alessandro Petacchi it has been his19th victory
of the current season and it was valuable in certain ways: "I wanted to end my season with a great victory like this. This
season was quite good but this is the best. In the past days I concentrated very much on that aim. At the race the team worked
a lot and in the final there was only Erik left to help me in the sprint. And he is a sprint-teacher, he brought me at the
right moment in front of the bunch. Like that I was able to do the perfect sprint. When somenone like him supports me winning,
the wins just count double as much. I believe that this race is the best in my career besides Milano-San Remo 2005. There
are not so many classics for sprinters. Accordingly to that it's nice to win one of these races", Petacchi said shortly after
race.
The second last race of the ProTour started right at the beginning very fast. Again and again leading groups
were formed and in the meantime the bunch was split into four parts. Yet after 150 kilometers a group of 30 riders broke away,
from which a little bit later, David Boucher (Landbouwkrediet), Manuel Quinziato (Liquigas) and Serge Pauwels (Chocolatde
Jacques) dominated the race. On their way they were able to build up a gap of nearly seven minutes which didn't last to the
final. 34 kilometers before the finish the group got busted for the first time when Quinziato broke away and the belgian Serge
Pauwels dropped behind. Just a couple kilometers further also David Boucher had to let go. Manual Quinziato finally got caught
eight kilometers before the finish. Right after the catch another trio went of again and reached the last two kilometers with
a gap of 22 seconds. 800 meters before the finishline the trio with Filippo Pozzato (Liquigas), Philippe Gilbert (FD Jeux)
and the dutch rider Karsten Kroon (CSC) got finally caught by the bunch.
Results
1 Alessandro Petacchi (Ita) Team Milram
5.32.37 (46.179 km/h)
2 Francesco Chicchi (Ita) Liquigas
3 Oscar Freire Gomez (Spa) Rabobank
4 Steven De Jongh (Ned) Quick.Step - Innergetic
5 Allan Davis (Aus) Discovery Channel
6 Robbie McEwen (Aus) Predictor - Lotto
7 Alexandre Usov (Blr) AG2r Prévoyance
8 Thor Hushovd (Nor) Crédit Agricole
9 Aurélien Clerc (Swi) Bouygues Telecom
10 Romain Feillu (Fra) Agritubel
11 Erik Zabel (Ger) Team Milram
12 Gert Steegmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
13 Carlos Da Cruz (Fra) Française des Jeux
14 Saïd Haddou (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
15 Leonardo Duque (Col) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
16 Enrico Gasparotto (Ita) Liquigas
17 Evert Verbist (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen
18 Kenny De Haes
(Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen
19 Kurt Hovelynck (Bel) Chocolade Jacques
- Topsport Vlaanderen
20 Luciano André Pagliarini Mendonca (Bra) Saunier Duval - Prodir
21 Sven Krauss (Ger) Gerolsteiner
22 Manuele Mori (Ita) Saunier Duval - Prodir
23 Hervé Duclos-Lassalle (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
24 Murilo Fischer (Bra) Liquigas
25 Peter Wrolich (Aut) Gerolsteiner
26 Javier Benitez Pomares (Spa) Benfica
27 Philippe Gilbert (Bel) Française des Jeux
28 Freddy Bichot (Fra) Agritubel
29 Inaki Isasi (Spa) Euskaltel-Eusksadi
30 Sven Renders (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen
31 Daniel
Musiol (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt
32 Martin Elmiger (Swi) AG2r Prévoyance
33 Jesus Del Nero (Spa) Saunier Duval - Prodir
34 Marcus Ljungqvist (Swe) Team CSC
35 Imanol Erviti Ollo (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
36 Piet Rooijakkers (Ned) Skil - Shimano
37 Alexandre Pichot (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
38 Pablo Lastras Garcia (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
39 Alan Perez Lezaun (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
40 Danilo Napolitano (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
41 Igor Anton Hernandez (Spa) Euskaltel - Euskadi
42 Erki Pütsep (Est) Bouygues Telecom
43 Björn Leukemans (Bel) Predictor - Lotto
44 Kurt-Asle Arvesen (Nor) Team CSC
45 Staf Scheirlinckx (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
46 Jan
Kuyckx (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner
47 Maarten Tjallingii (Ned) Skil - Shimano
48 Greg Van Avermaet (Bel) Predictor - Lotto
49 Hugo Sabido (Por) Barloworld
50 Vladimir Gusev (Rus) Discovery Channel
51 Allan Johansen (Den) Team CSC
52 Floris Goesinnen (Ned) Skil - Shimano
53 Samuel Dumoulin (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
54 Jérémy Roy (Fra) Française des Jeux
55 Frédéric Guesdon (Fra) Française des Jeux
56 Mathieu Perget (Fra) Caisse d'Epargne
57 Frédéric Amorison (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner
58 Tristan Valentin (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
59
Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
60 Robert Retschke (Ger) Team Wiesenhof Felt
61 José Ivan Gutierrez (Spa) Caisse d'Epargne
62 Vincent Jérôme (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
63 Marc De Maar (Ned) Rabobank
64 Roy Sentjens (Ned) Predictor - Lotto
65 Preben Van Hecke (Bel) Predictor - Lotto
66 Raivis Belohvosciks (Lat) Saunier Duval - Prodir
67 Nico Sijmens (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner
68 Anthony Geslin (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
69 Fabian Cancellara (Swi) Team CSC
70 Sébastien Hinault (Fra) Crédit Agricole
71 Damien Monier (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
72 Gerben Löwik (Ned) Rabobank
73 Paolo Bossoni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
74 Maarten Den Bakker (Ned) Skil - Shimano
75 Sébastien Minard (Fra) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
76
Renaud Dion (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
77 Johan Coenen (Bel) Chocolade Jacques - Topsport Vlaanderen
78 Arnaud
Gérard (Fra) Française des Jeux
79 Maxime Monfort (Bel) Cofidis - Le Crédit par Téléphone
80 Cédric Vasseur (Fra) Quick.Step - Innergetic
81 Yuriy Krivtsov (Ukr) AG2r Prévoyance
82 Filippo Pozzato (Ita) Liquigas
83 Wouter Weylandt (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
84 Christophe Riblon (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
0.07
85 Karsten Kroon (Ned) Team CSC
0.16
86 Niki Terpstra (Ned) Team Milram
87 Mark Renshaw (Aus) Crédit Agricole
0.19
88 Juan Antonio Flecha Giannoni (Spa) Rabobank
0.20
89 Mathew Hayman (Aus) Rabobank
90 Sebastiaan Langeveld (Ned) Rabobank
91 Alberto Ongarato (Ita) Team Milram
0.22
92 Marco Velo (Ita) Team Milram
0.40
93 Claudio Corioni (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
0.44
94 Benoît Sinner (Fra) Agritubel
95 Volker Ordowski (Ger) Gerolsteiner
96 Nicolas Rousseau (Fra) AG2r Prévoyance
0.48
97 Juan José Oroz (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi
98 Frederik Willems (Bel) Liquigas
0.52
99 Aart Vierhouten (Ned) Skil - Shimano
100 Jonathan Hivert (Fra) Crédit Agricole
1.18
101 Johan Van Summeren (Bel) Predictor - Lotto
1.33
102 Laszlo Bodrogi (Hun) Crédit Agricole
1.40
103 Aivaras Baranauskas (Ltu) Agritubel
104 Pavel Padrnos (Cze) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
105 Sjef De Wilde (Bel) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 2.18
106
Thomas Fothen (Ger) Gerolsteiner
107 Matti Breschel (Den) Team CSC
108 Tom Stamsnijder (Ned) Gerolsteiner
2.51
109 Roberto Longo (Ita) Lampre-Fondital
110 Christophe Mengin (Fra) Française des Jeux
111 Matthew Goss (Aus) Team CSC
112 Oscar Gatto (Ita) Gerolsteiner
113 Fabio Baldato (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
114 Wilfried Cretskens (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
115 Lars Ytting Bak (Den) Team CSC
116 Thomas Voeckler (Fra) Bouygues Telecom
117 Kevin Hulsmans (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
3.35
118 Sébastien Rosseler (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
119 Maarten Wynants (Bel) Quick.Step - Innergetic
120 Joost Posthuma (Ned) Rabobank
4.15
121 Paolo Fornaciari (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
4.37
122 Manuel Quinziato (Ita) Liquigas
123 Steven Cummings (GBr) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
124 Daniele
Righi (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
6.37
125 Brian Vandborg (Den) Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team 7.01
126 Robert Förster
(Ger) Gerolsteiner
8.26
127 Matteo Bono (Ita) Lampre - Fondital
128 David Boucher (Fra) Landbouwkrediet - Tönissteiner 9.07
129
Jimmy Engoulvent (Fra) Crédit Agricole
11.45
130 Aleksandr Kuchynski (Blr) Liquigas
131 Kenny Van Hummel (Ned) Skil - Shimano
132 Christophe Kern (Fra) Crédit Agricole
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