Fabian Cancellara would come on his land in Canton Bern in the garb of leader. He arrived but will leave without. And it is unclear if the Saxo Bank was surprised to lose the yellow jersey or has deliberately chosen to leave to others a leader sometimes burdensome to defend. "We defended the jersey yesterday (Sunday), today (Monday) we defended the jersey. At one point, there was no real reason. It is not up to us to work, Frank Schleck explained at a press conference.
All day, Saxo Bank has dictated the tempo, leaving twenty kilometers from the start after the Moldavian Pliushin Alexander, Finn Jussi Veikkanen and Italy's Ermanno Capelli. When the platoon has counted fifteen minutes behind the top of the Col des Mosses (1st class), she then stepped up the pace to swallow them one by one to twenty kilometers from the finish.
The cons of Schleck:
With the Schleck brothers, Fuglsang and Larsson leads the way, has also tried to catch up with multiple attacks riders including Tony Martin, Michael Albasini, Luis Leon Sanchez and Nicolas Roche ... countered by Frank Schleck just before the flame red, followed closely by the Colombian Rigoberto Uran. "I hurt everywhere. (...) I attacked 300 meters before the summit and it was the longest kilometer of my life!" told, all smiles, the elder Schleck. Three seconds behind followed Tony Martin and seven other riders. Then another group, with Cancellara and Armstrong crossed the finish line four seconds behind the German ...
Martin, second in the Tour of Switzerland last year, had won this season against a time-trial in the Tour of California. The yellow jersey made him reconsider his ambitions. "I had to prepare for the Tour de France, I was planning to run a little slowly. But a leader's jersey, we do not let it go voluntarily. We will defend it ', Has he said. Tuesday his team will commit about 192 km that will lead the runners to Wettingen.
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