Tour de France: Cédric Vasseur wins stage 10
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__noTOC__ Cédric Vasseur of France has won stage 10 of the 2007 Tour de France. Vasseur won a five man sprint to the finishline by the slimmest of margins. "This morning I was on the phone to a friend and he told me, ‘Today is your day!’ And in all honesty I had the same confidence about this long stage. The victory had to be mine," said Vasseur after his victory. Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retains the overall lead, finishing the stage some 10 minutes later with the peleton. In fact, all of the top ten in the overall, finished with the sam
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Cédric Vasseur of France has won stage 10 of the 2007 Tour de France. Vasseur won a five man sprint to the finishline by the slimmest of margins.
"This morning I was on the phone to a friend and he told me, ‘Today is your day!’ And in all honesty I had the same confidence about this long stage. The victory had to be mine," said Vasseur after his victory.
Michael Rasmussen of Denmark retains the overall lead, finishing the stage some 10 minutes later with the peleton. In fact, all of the top ten in the overall, finished with the same time, leaving the standings unchanged from yesterday.
"It was a long, hard day and all the guys are suffering in the heat, that’s quite obvious and 230 kilometers into a headwind takes its toll on everybody. My Rabobank team defended well today and we’ll have to wait and see how we go. There is another two days before we have the big test in the time trial on Saturday and then I’ll start thinking about the Pyrenees," said Michael Rasmussen.
He went on to say that he is now the leader of the Rabobank team: "There’s been a lot said about the situation regarding leadership between myself and Denis Menchov and I think it’s quite clear now that I’m the leader in the team now and I’m here to defend the yellow jersey for as long as possible."
Patrik Sinkewitz of Germany, who has already dropped out of the Tour after a crash, got more bad news when the A sample in a drug test on June 8, came back positve.
Stage 10 results
RankRiderTeamTime1Cedric VasseurQuick Step-Innergetic 5h 20'24"2Sandy CasarFrançaise des Jeux s.t."3 Michael AlbasiniLiquigas s.t."4 Patrice HalgandCrédit Agricole s.t."5Jens VoigtTeam CSC s.t."6Staf ScheirlinckxCofidis 36"7 Paolo BossoniLampre-Fondital s.t."8 Marcus BurghardtT-Mobile Team 1'01"9Aleksandr KuschynskiLiquigas 2'34"10 Juan Antonio FlechaRabobank s.t."
General classification after stage 10
RankRiderTeamTime1Michael RasmussenRabobank 49h 23' 48"2Alejandro ValverdeCaisse d'Epargne +2' 35"3 Iban MayoSaunier Duval-Prodir +2' 39"4 Cadel EvansPredictor-Lotto +2' 41"5Alberto ContadorDiscovery Channel Pro Cycling Team +3' 08"6Christophe MoreauAG2R Prévoyance +3' 18"7 Carlos SastreTeam CSC +3' 39"8 Andreas KlödenAstana Team +3' 50"9Levi LeipheimerDiscovery Channel Pro Cycling Team +3' 53"10 Kim KirchenT-Mobile Team +5' 06"
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