jordan5000 said:
This may seem like a dumb question but whatever happened to Petacchi? He has ridden this year so is he injured or has he lost a step and is just riding the smaller races?
Ashma-Jet was @ LeTour but crashed. But I guess CONI implied a rule that any former doper shall never wear the Italian colours for the rest of his career? But don't know whether that was finally imposed... Hard to understand that Moser was not selected... Whatever...
And some guy wrote somewhere in this thread that Wiggo won a sprint @ the Romandie. Well, size-wise it was a bunch sprint, but with not one single sprinter, not one! not even a puncheur/finisseur. Like the former rider Sven Montgomery said at the flamme rouge during the live transmission; we are going to see a sprint of non-sprinters.
1. Etappe - Morges - Chaux-de-Fonds (184 km)
1. Bradley Wiggins GBR Sky 4:50:23
2. Lieuwe Westra NED Vacansoleil-DCM + 00:00
3. Paolo Tiralongo ITA Astana + 00:00
4. Tejay Van GardereUSA Team BMC + 00:00
5. Maciej Paterski POL Liquigas-Cannondale + 00:00
6. Wasil Kirienka BLR Movistar + 00:00
7. Serge Pauwels BEL Omega-Quick Step + 00:00
8. Daniele Pietropolli ITA Lampre-ISD + 00:00
9. Ryder Hesjedal CAN Garmin-Barracuda + 00:00
10. Pieter Weening NED Greenedge + 00:00
11. Rob Ruijgh NED Vacansoleil-DCM + 00:00
12. Egoi Martinez ESP Euskaltel + 00:00
13. Cadel Evans AUS Team BMC + 00:00
14. Gorka Verdugo ESP Euskaltel + 00:00
15. Steve Morabito SUI Team BMC + 00:00
16. Thomas RohreggerAUT RadioShack-Nissan + 00:00
17. Bauke Mollema NED Rabobank + 00:00
18. Mikel Landa MeanaESP Euskaltel + 00:00
19. Janez Brajkovic SLO Astana + 00:00
20. Ruben Plaza ESP Movistar + 00:00