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Tour de France 2003 08 Alpe DHuez Mayo
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Tour de Francia 2003 - 08 - Sunday, July 13: Sallanches - L'Alpe d'Huez, 219 km • Cote du Megeve (9.9 kilometres at 5.1 percent) • Côte des Rafforts (2.7 kilometres at 8.5 percent) • Col du Telegraphe (12.1 kilometres at 6.8 percent) • Col du Galibier (18.5 kilometres at 6.7 percent) • Alpe d'Huez (14.1 kilometres at 8 percent) • Results • 1 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 5.57.30 (36.75 km/h) • 2 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 1.45 • 3 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor 2.12 • 4 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com • 5 Haimar Zubeldia (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi • 6 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski • 7 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC • 8 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo • 9 Roberto Laiseka (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi • 10 Pietro Caucchioli (Ita) Alessio 3.36 • 11 Christophe Moreau (Fra) Credit Agricole • 12 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor • 13 Jan Ullrich (Ger) Team Bianchi • 14 Denis Menchov (Rus) iBanesto.com 4.15 • 15 Stefano Garzelli (Ita) Vini Caldirola-So.Di 4.46 • 16 Georg Totschnig (Aut) Gerolsteiner • 17 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE-Eroski • 18 Manuel Beltran (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor • 19 Michael Boogerd (Ned) Rabobank 4.59 • 20 Carlos Sastre (Spa) Team CSC 5.26 • 21 Mikel Astarloza (Spa) Ag2R Prevoyance 6.04 • 22 David Millar (GBr) Cofidis, Credit Par Telephone 6.09 • 23 Peter Lüttenberger (Aut) Team CSC 6.52 • 24 Juan Miguel Mercado (Spa) iBanesto.com • 25 Ivan Parra (Col) Kelme-Costa Blanca • 26 David Moncoutie (Fra) Cofidis, Credit Par Telephone • 27 Giuseppe Guerini (Ita) Team Telekom 7.46 • 28 José Luis Rubiera (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor • 29 Didier Rous (Fra) Brioches La Boulangere 7.51 • 30 David Plaza (Spa) Team Bianchi • General classification after stage 8 • • 1 Lance Armstrong (USA) US Postal-Berry Floor 35.12.50 • 2 Joseba Beloki (Spa) ONCE-Eroski 0.40 • 3 Iban Mayo (Spa) Euskaltel-Euskadi 1.10 • 4 Alexandre Vinokourov (Kaz) Team Telekom 1.17 • 5 Francisco Mancebo (Spa) iBanesto.com 1.37 • 6 Tyler Hamilton (USA) Team CSC 1.52 • 7 Roberto Heras (Spa) US Postal-Berry Floor 1.58 • 8 Jan Ullrich(Ger) Team Bianchi 2.10 • 9 Ivan Basso (Ita) Fassa Bortolo 2.25 • 10 Jorg Jaksche (Ger) ONCE-Eroski 3.19 • A dream can become reality, as Euskatel-Euskadi's Iban Mayo found out today when the talented 25 year old Basque climber from Igorre rode to a prestigious solo stage win on L'Alpe d'Huez. To win here was a dream that became reality today. I was able to profit from attacking at just the right moment. • Mayo, who was 40th on GC, 6'11 behind Maillot Jaune Richard Virenque at the stage start in Sallanches this morning, leapt to third on GC, 1'10 behind new Maillot Jaune, four-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong. Mayo's time up l'Alpe was 39'06 , short of Marco Pantani's record of 37'35 set in 1997 or Armstrong's 38'01 of 2001. • Armstrong already knows very well how the dream of winning the Tour de France can become a reality. Today the reality of winning his fifth consecutive Tour is one step closer as Armstrong donned the Maillot Jaune once again at l'Alpe d'Huez. I didn't have the greatest sensations or the greatest legs today , the four-time Tour de France winner was third on the stage and took over the lead at the 2003 Tour de France. • It was a hard day [today] with a lot of attacks, with a long, tough day yesterday. So two days in a row like this [were hard]. After controlling the race for the second half of stage eight, Armstrong's US Postal Service presented by Berry Floor squad hit the base of l'Alpe like a runaway blue train. Armstrong said, There's no doubt that Triki [Beltran] went too hard at the base of the climb, but he's new to the team and I guess the system isn't clear enough yet. A fast tempo is a good thing but that tempo was supersonic and that's not a good thing. Immediately, the tempo put Chechu Rubiera in trouble. We'll talk about that tonight and it won't happen again. I can confirm if it looked fast, it was very fast! • More: http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2...
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