Ouch ouch ouch ... that looked hard. Lots of movement on today's stage, and new yellow jersey Landis looked solid without completely stamping his authority on the race. A promising result from Schleck and Cunego, too.
Now everyone has to recover and do tomorrow's heinous stage, and then do Thursday's merely nasty stage.
Still no real change to the top of the Tour Pool. In fact, Metuzals padded another point onto his lead over DeVeer. But what's this? Paul Crowley has clawed to within 13 points of DeVeer, and Linda Gilligan and Meylina Kandoy continue to stalk the leaders, chipping away at their lead in tiny but significant chunks.
A special nod to the Dalling brothers, who tied, along with Craig Hawkes and his "Sith Riders", for the stage win. It was carnage lower down, as Team Damdom, Wilby McKnight, Team Boyz on Bikes, Dave Thomas and Sheri Jay all lost points on the stage. Happier news for Phil Brun del Re, who gained three points to sit at -3, but he has a solid lock on Lanterne Rouge: he is fully 52 points behind 86th-placed Remi Berube.
Until tomorrow, KW
Date: 18-Jul Stage: 15 Start/Finish: Gap > L'Alpe d'Huez Distance 187,0 1st SCHLECK Frank LUX CSC 2nd CUNEGO Damiano ITA LAM 3rd GARZELLI Stefano ITA LIQ 4th LANDIS Floyd USA PHO 5th KLÖDEN Andréas GER TMO 6th LOBATO Ruben ESP SDV 7th CHAVANEL Sylvain FRA COF 8th MAZZOLENI Eddy ITA TMO 9th SASTRE Carlos ESP CSC 10th LEIPHEIMER Levi USA GST Mountains GARZELLI Stefano ITA LIQ Young rider CUNEGO Damiano ITA LAM Aggressive GARZELLI Stefano ITA LIQ Teams T-MOBILE TEAM Abandon GRIVKO Andriy UKR MRM Abandon BOONEN Tom BEL QSI Abandon DE GROOT Bram NED RAB Abandon ZBERG Beat SUI GST Overall: Yellow LANDIS Floyd USA PHO Team TEAM CSC Green MC EWEN Robbie AUS DVL Polka dots DE LA FUENTE David ESP SDV Young rider FOTHEN Marcus GER GST
RANK TOT Stage rank Stage points 1 523 40 16 Peter Metuzals 2 504 46 15 Helena DeVeer 3 491 7 28 Paul Crowley "Team Blood Wash" 4 485 40 16 Linda Gilligan 5 471 29 19 Meylina Kandoy 6 468 40 16 Orange Scheisse 7 452 40 16 Markus Chiang 7 452 53 14 Stefan Sander 9 450 46 15 Jamie Bryan 10 446 16 22 Glenn "My Team is Clean" Robinson 11 441 12 23 Tyler Lawlor 12 440 1 35 Ian Dalling 13 435 16 22 Chris Holzauer 14 432 24 21 Nat Faulkner 14 432 70 6 Spencer Campbell "Texless" 16 422 12 23 Julie Deschenes-Furry 17 421 61 10 Grimpeur George 18 419 16 22 "Barnet CC" 19 415 79 1 Steve Proulx 20 412 1 35 Craig Hawkes "Sith Riders" 21 410 5 29 "Mr. Stevens Picks" 21 410 46 15 Team D.O.P.E.- Downplaying Operation Puerto Evidence 23 406 9 26 Alex Lai 24 405 46 15 Blaine Penny 25 401 4 34 Vicki Thomas 26 398 16 22 Derrick St. John 27 392 79 1 John Fee / Cynthia Phelan 28 391 66 8 Chris & Storm 29 387 16 22 Kevin Field "Fev" 30 386 40 16 Sean O'Donnell "The Ruse is Up" 31 382 16 22 Jeffrey Furry 32 381 69 7 Natasha Elliott 33 379 53 14 Mhairi Gilmore 34 374 16 22 Paul Scafel "Team Venga Venga Venga" 34 374 24 21 Matt Toulouse 36 372 12 23 Marc Boudreau 37 370 46 15 Doug Hinan 38 369 5 29 Ross Knight 39 368 10 24 Rob Grondin 40 367 10 24 Courtnay Romkey 41 363 55 13 Sandy Fulton 42 362 29 19 Eva Ortega "VillaEva" 43 360 1 35 Gordon Dalling 44 351 61 10 The Cyclery 45 338 24 21 SUPERFAN 46 337 70 6 Kris "Can't win" Westwood 47 331 27 20 Julie Jay 48 319 73 3 Lori Meyers 49 307 46 15 Musky Ninja 50 303 79 1 Neil la Plante 51 298 46 15 Josh Hall 52 292 7 28 Richard and Catherine 53 278 40 16 J to the U 54 269 35 18 Team Oro Rocks 55 266 73 3 "Dick und Doof" 56 262 29 19 Deb Hine's Most Excellent Picks 56 262 29 19 Yellow Dopes "Grubby Rabbit" 58 261 59 11 Mike Larochelle 59 259 83 -1 Team Damdom 60 257 39 17 Jennifer Garrett 61 253 64 9 Ed Makarchuk 62 250 59 11 Jay "Son of Rudy" Heins 63 247 57 12 Kiwi Mike 64 239 29 19 Shawn Clarke 65 238 84 -2 Wilby McKnight 66 237 85 -5 Team Boyz on Bikes 67 229 85 -5 Dave Thomas 68 227 70 6 Team 18 Wheeler 69 218 57 12 Donelli 70 209 35 18 Rob Kerr 70 209 35 18 Reed Archer 72 202 64 9 Adrian Das 73 194 73 3 Larginski 74 183 27 20 Les Boyz 75 180 66 8 "Team Wheelywotten" 76 178 85 -5 Sheri Jay 77 172 12 23 Chris White 78 159 35 18 Dave Shirley 79 149 16 22 Kate Scallion 80 120 77 2 Operation Spain 81 107 61 10 Team OK 82 97 77 2 Los Spics 83 82 66 8 Luise Sander "No Euros Here" 84 71 55 13 Mr. Glen 85 52 29 19 Il Gatto 86 49 79 1 Remi "Team MTB + Frenchies" Berube 87 -3 73 3 Phil Brun del Re "The Lucky Lucky Nine"Posted by kriswestwood at July 18, 2006 11:16 PM