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Stage 13 – Yikes — Why Now?
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Stage 13 – Yikes

Tour de FranceHeinrich Haussler of Germany took the stage and the red numbers with some impressive hustle on a day filled with changes and rain.

Update: Levi Leipheimer of the US didn’t start the stage; he had been running in fourth place overall. [I’ve learned that he broke his wrist in a minor crash at the end of stage 12.]

Franco Pellizotti took back the polka dot jersey from Egoi Martinez, and Thor Hushovd retrieved the green from Mark Cavendish.

1. Rinaldo Nocentini (I/AG2R) 53:30:30 [yellow jersey]
2. Alberto Contador (E/Astana) +:06
3. Lance Armstrong (US/Astana) +:08
4. Bradley Wiggins (GB/Garmin) +:46
5. Andréas Klöden (D/Astana) +:54
6. Tony Martin (D/Team Columbia) +01:00 [white jersey]
7. Christian Vande Velde (US/Garmin) +01:24
8. Andy Schleck (LUX/Saxo Bank) +01:49
9. Vincenzo Nibali (I/Liquigas) +01:54
10. Luis-Leon Sanchez (E/Caisse) +02:16

Selected Others:

17. Cadel Evans (AUS/Silence) +03:07
25. Nicki Sorensen (DEN/Saxo) +04:38
38. Egoi Martinez (E/Euskatel) +11:09
41. Franco Pellizotti (I/Liquigas) +12:21 [polka dot jersey] 98 points
45. Nicolas Roche (IRE/AG2R) +16:45
56. David Millar (GB/Garmin) +28:29
83. Heinrich Haussler (D/Cervalo) +48:41 [red numbers]
106. Thor Hushovd (NOR/Cervelo) +1:04:32 [green jersey] 205 points
135. Mark Cavendish (GB/Team Columbia) +1:30:55
164. Kenny Robert Van Hummel (NED/Skil) +2:16:33 [red lantern]

Saxo still leads the teams by 34 seconds.

From the BBC Cycling results and the official results sites.

2 comments

1 cookie jill { 07.17.09 at 8:48 pm }

Le Lance keeps hanging in there….
.-= ´s last blog ..Who knew the Pentagon Channel =-.

2 Bryan { 07.17.09 at 9:27 pm }

It’s going to be harder without Levi to help to block the breakaways.